[Construction of Hebei Zhuolu Digital Economy Industry Demonstration Park]Recently, the Hebei Zhuolu Digital Economy Industry Demonstration Park project, undertaken by the Urban Construction Company of China Construction Sixth Bureau, officially began construction. The project is located in Zhuolu Economic and Technological Development Zone, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. It is a key construction project in Hebei Province, with a building area of 226000 square meters. The construction content includes 11 buildings, including 9 data centers, 1 operation and maintenance supporting building, and 1 warehouse; There are 20 planned buildings in the park, 9 outdoor oil engine areas, 3 septic tank, 5 rainwater storage tanks, 3 entrance guards, and 1 softened water treatment yard in the park. The park data center is planned to be a national A-level standard data center, which will greatly enhance data storage and processing capabilities after completion. It is of great significance for promoting the construction of smart cities, assisting the construction of Zhangjiakou data center clusters in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei hub, and supporting new infrastructure in the digital era. It is conducive to building a real-time computing center that radiates to North China, Northeast China, and even the whole country, creating a highland for the development of the big data industry, and integrating into the new development pattern, Serve the national East West Calculation project. Editor/He Yuting
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