[Enery secures € 2.5 billion financing to launch Romanian solar storage project] In mid January 2026, independent renewable energy developer Enery made two advances in the Central and Eastern European markets. The company has successfully completed a long-term combination financing of over 250 million euros, which will be used to support the development of 300MW photovoltaic and 100MW energy storage projects in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. At the same time, its Ogrezeni photovoltaic energy storage hybrid project in Romania was officially launched, with a total scale of 761MWp photovoltaic and over 1GWh energy storage. It is expected to be connected to the grid in the summer of 2027 and become a leading project of its kind in Europe, aiming to enhance the flexibility of the regional power grid and drive the local economy.Editor/Gao Xue

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• 2026.04.03 16:07
• [The domestically produced largest diameter hard rock TBM is offline]
• 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

• 2026.04.03 15:53
• [China Kazakhstan's $125 million large order landed]
• 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