[Yongxing Materials invests 300 million yuan to establish a wholly-owned mining enterpris]Yongxing Materials has invested 300 million yuan to fully establish a mining enterprise, increasing its upstream mineral layout in new energy and expanding its territory in the new energy field. The new mining enterprise will consolidate the company's self-sufficiency advantage in lithium resources, complement the existing lithium mica extraction capacity, optimize the synergy of the entire mining, beneficiation, and metallurgy industry chain, and help reduce costs and increase efficiency. This move deepens the company's dual main business strategy of "special steel+lithium battery", enhances core competitiveness, and lays a solid resource foundation for the subsequent release of production capacity.Editor/Bian Wenjun
On April 3, 2026, the domestically developed maximum diameter 13.2-meter hard rock TBM by CCCC Tianhe started construction in Changshu. The machine is equipped with 7600 domestically produced rare earth special steel main bearings developed by the Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a rated life of over 15000 hours and performance exceeding imports. This move marks China Communications Construction Corporation's first achievement of 100% localization of core components for ultra large diameter tunneling machines, completely bridging the last mile of national production of major underground engineering equipment in China.Editor/Cheng Liting
At the Export to China SCO Choice Forum, Kazakh companies signed a $125 million agricultural export agreement with Chinese partners. Changsha Kaliev, the Minister of Trade of Kazakhstan, led a delegation to visit Shandong to deepen industrial and logistics cooperation. As the largest trading partner, the bilateral trade volume between China and Kazakhstan is expected to increase from 41 billion US dollars in 2023 to 48.7 billion US dollars in 2025, with Shandong's trade volume reaching 2.2 billion US dollars. Both sides are shifting from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement, with a focus on promoting the export of high value-added, non resource, and green technology products to ensure supply chain stability.Editor/Cheng Liting