[Middling coal 2.1 billion green methanol project approved]The information on the online approval and supervision platform for investment projects in Heilongjiang Province shows that the green methanol project of the middling coal Jixian Scenery Hydrogen Storage and Alcohol Integration Project has officially passed the record. The total investment of the project is about 2.135 billion yuan. middling coal Green Energy (Shuangyashan) Co., Ltd. is responsible for the construction of the project. It uses wind power and green electricity to produce hydrogen. The scale of hydrogen production is 70000Nm ³/h. After the coupling of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, it is estimated that the annual output of green methanol will be 136000 tons, and 500MW wind power and 150MW photovoltaic power will be built. This project is the first large-scale integrated project of middling coal Group in northeast China, which marks the acceleration of the transformation of traditional energy enterprises to green and low-carbon.Editor/Gao Xue
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