[Xi'an Held the the Belt and Road Think Tank Council Meeting]On November 10, 2026, the 2026 Council Meeting of the the Belt and Road International Think Tank Cooperation Committee was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. The meeting reviewed the preliminary work, discussed the direction of follow-up cooperation, helped build the the Belt and Road with high quality, and deepened the exchange of transnational think tanks. The meeting was chaired by Ren Weidong, Deputy Editor in Chief of Xinhua News Agency. The committee was initiated and established in April 2019, with 4 new member units added this time, bringing the total number of members to 150. The Chinese and foreign representatives attending the conference recognize the value of the platform and look forward to continuing research collaboration and gathering wisdom from multiple parties. Editor/Li Xiaohua
On November 10, 2026, the first tower of the Zhejiang ultra-high voltage AC ring network project was completed in Shangyu, Shaoxing, and the project officially entered the tower assembly stage, helping to promote clean energy consumption and power grid supply in East China. This project is a key power engineering project during the 15th Five Year Plan period, with a total investment of 29.3 billion yuan. It is planned to be put into operation in November 2029 and will create the first provincial high-voltage AC ring network in China. The project can consume over 57 billion kilowatt hours of clean energy annually, effectively reducing carbon emissions and improving the power supply guarantee level in the Yangtze River Delta.Editor/Li Xiaohua
Recently, China Power Construction Hubei Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd. received the winning bid notice for the second phase of the Graf Oilfield Power Station project in Iraq from China Tianchen Engineering Co., Ltd. The project is located in Zijar Province, Iraq. The power station uses gas as the main fuel and diesel as the backup fuel. The generated electricity directly serves the internal production of the Graf Oilfield. It is a landmark landing project of Hubei Electric Power Construction in the energy engineering direction of the oilfield area.Editor/Gong Ziwei