[Zhejiang Thermal Power and Longji Green Energy sign Egypt project]Recently, during SNEC Exhibition, China Energy Construction Group Zhejiang Thermal Power Construction Co., Ltd. and Longi Green Energy signed a 230MW module supply contract in Egypt. Both sides held a signing ceremony at Longi booth. Located 805 km south of Cairo and 78 km northwest of Aswan, Egypt, the project will have an installed capacity of 200MWac and a designed DC capacity of 230MW, together with a 220 kV grade booster station. The project is developed by ACWA power, China Power Engineering Consulting Group International Engineering Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Thermal Power Construction Co., LTD. Longi will provide efficient and reliable PERC double-sided components for the project, which will be delivered within the year. The project is expected to meet the power needs of 130,000 households when completed. Editor/Xue Ma
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