[Two pumped storage power stations in Liaoning have received approval]Recently, the Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued the Reply to the Approval of the Liaoning Daya River Pumped Storage Power Station Project and the Reply to the Approval of the Liaoning Xingcheng Pumped Storage Power Station Project, agreeing to the construction of the Liaoning Daya River and Xingcheng Pumped Storage Power Station, marking that the project has officially entered the preparatory stage of construction. Liaoning Daya River pumping water storage Power Station is located in Huanren County, Benxi City, Liaoning Province. The station site is 40km away from Huanren County and 152km away from Shenyang. Four units with a capacity of 400,000kw are installed, which are mainly composed of upper reservoir, lower reservoir, water transmission system, underground powerhouse system and switch station. Connect to Liaoning power grid with 2 500 kV line. After the completion of the Daya River pumped storage power station in Liaoning Province, it will reduce raw coal consumption by about 515,800 tons per year, carbon dioxide by 965,300 tons and sulfur dioxide by 33,200 tons. It drives local GDP of more than 25.6 billion yuan, increases local fiscal revenue of about 60 million yuan per year on average during the construction period, provides about 4,000 ~ 4,500 jobs of various kinds, and stably increases local fiscal revenue of about 95.54 million yuan per year during the operation period. Liaoning Xingcheng Pumped Storage Power Station is located in Xingcheng City, Huludao City, Liaoning Province. The station site is 320km away from Shenyang, 60km away from Huludao and 40km away from Xingcheng. Four units with a capacity of 300,000kw are installed, which are mainly composed of upper reservoir, lower reservoir, water transmission system, underground powerhouse system and switch station. Connect to Liaoning power grid with 2 500 kV line. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
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