[The list of national logistics hubs to be built in 2022 was released]Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a Notice on the Construction of National Logistics Hubs in 2022, which included 25 national logistics hubs such as Tianjin Business Service into the 2022 construction list. In terms of regional distribution, there are 6 in eastern China, 7 in central China, 10 in western China and 2 in Northeast China. From the perspective of hub types, there are 5 land ports, 3 airport ports, 2 port ports, 7 production services, 5 trade services, 2 land border ports and 1 land border port combined construction. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
From January to June 2026, the throughput of the Three Gorges Dam reached 76.642 million tons. Among them, 22.0467 million tons of livelihood materials and 699500 tons of key emergency transportation materials were guaranteed to pass through the dam. In the first half of this year, the Three Gorges Ship Lock operated 4527 locks, with 17000 ships passing through and a throughput of 74.325 million tons; The Three Gorges ship lift operated a total of 2129 carriages, transported 328000 passengers through 2156 ships, and the number of passengers transported increased by 13.6% year-on-year. Editor/Cheng Liting
Recently, the key implementation project of the 14th Five Year Plan for pumped storage in China, the Inner Mongolia Meidai Pumped Storage Power Station project, started construction in Tuyou Banner. The total investment of the project is 8.2 billion yuan, with a total installed capacity of 1.2 million kilowatts. It is equipped with four single unit 300000 kilowatt reversible water pump turbine generators, and the first unit is planned to be put into operation and generate electricity in 2032. The power station can operate at full capacity for up to 6 hours, with a designed annual power generation of 1.526 billion kilowatt hours, and can consume 2.6 billion kilowatt hours of new energy such as wind power and photovoltaics annually. Editor/Cheng Liting