[Bidding for Nansha section of Huangpu Nansha East Expressway]On May 31, 2023, the Guangzhou Public Resource Trading Service Platform released a bidding announcement for the construction of the Nansha section of the Huangpu Nansha East Expressway, with a total investment of approximately 5 billion yuan. Nansha section of Huangpu Nansha East Expressway, including main line works and auxiliary road works: main line works of Nansha section of Huangpu Nansha East Expressway: first-class highway and urban expressway standard, two-way six lane, about 5.1 km long. The length of the roadbed section is about 2.14 kilometers, the total length of the bridge is about 2.67 kilometers, and the length of the semi submerged tunnel is about 255 meters; There are 4 interchanges set up along the entire line, including Nansha Bridge Interchange, Husha Avenue Interchange, Wuzhoushan North Road Interchange, and Huangge East Interchange. The main construction content includes road engineering, bridge engineering, tunnel engineering, traffic engineering, lighting engineering, greening engineering, toll facilities, external power engineering, temporary engineering, etc. The project budget is 3.07 billion yuan, including 1.996 billion yuan for construction and installation expenses. The auxiliary road project of the Nansha section of the Huangpu Nansha East Expressway: an urban main road, starting from the planned No. 21 Road in the Qingsheng area of Nansha District in the north and ending at Jigushan Road in the south, with four lanes in both directions and a length of about 4.9 kilometers. The total length of the roadbed section is 4495 meters, the bridge section is 290 meters, and the open section of the tunnel is 126 meters. The main construction content includes road engineering, bridge engineering, tunnel engineering, traffic engineering and traffic dispersion engineering, drainage engineering, lighting engineering, power pipe trench engineering, greening engineering, etc. The project budget is 1.934 billion yuan, including 1.085 billion yuan for construction and installation expenses. Editor/Zhao E
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