[CCCC and Chongqing Shapingba District Government signed an agreement]On February 22, CCCC and Chongqing Shapingba District Government held the signing ceremony of the strategic cooperation framework agreement at CCCC Building. Liu Xiang, deputy secretary of CCCC Party Committee, and Xiao Qinghua, deputy secretary of Shapingba District Party Committee and head of Shapingba District, attended the ceremony to witness the signing of the contract, and held discussions and exchanges. Centering on the strategy of building Chongqing into a strong transportation city, the two sides give full play to their advantages of integration of the whole industrial chain, and deeply participate in the cooperation in the fields of transportation infrastructure, urban renewal, water conservancy projects, and river basin governance in Shapingba District, so as to help the high-quality economic and social development of Shapingba District. Editor/Ma 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