[Successful Signing of G7611 Xichang Shangri La Sichuan Expressway Project]Recently, Sichuan Highway and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sichuan Road and Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., signed the "General Contracting Contract for the Construction of ZCB-3 Contract Section of the G7611 Xichang Shangri La Sichuan Expressway Project" with Sichuan Xixiang Expressway Construction and Development Co., Ltd., and the Road and Bridge Group will undertake the general contracting task for the construction of ZCB-3 Contract Section of the G7611 Xichang Shangri La Sichuan Expressway Project. The project content of this agreement is the construction of the ZCB-3 contract section (AK18+861~C5K134+440, M10K8+166) of the Sichuan Expressway from Xichang to Shangri La on the G7611 line ˉ M7K40+003.675) construction, mainly responsible for temporary engineering, roadbed, pavement, bridge and culvert, tunnel, intersection engineering, traffic safety, greening, housing construction, electromechanical, smart highway construction, and corresponding engineering restoration during the defect liability period. The total contract amount is approximately 32.408 billion yuan. The total construction period of the contract section is 54 months. The construction of this project is of great significance for improving the national and Sichuan Yunnan highway network, constructing a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation corridor in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, driving the development of tourism, mineral and cultural resources, and promoting high-quality economic development in the Panxi region. After the completion and opening to traffic, the history of no highways in Yanyuan and Muli counties will come to an end. Editor/Zhao E
On August 14, 2026, the National Energy Administration released the construction status of photovoltaic power generation in the first half of the year. Data shows that in the first half of the year, the newly added grid connected capacity of photovoltaics in China reached 71.768 million kilowatts, of which distributed photovoltaics added 42.221 million kilowatts, accounting for over 58.8%; Centralized photovoltaic power stations added 29.547 million kilowatts. Editor/Min Jing
On August 15, 2026, Iran and Tajikistan reached a long-term energy cooperation agreement through oil negotiations. The agreement contains two core contents: Iran will export petroleum products to Tajikistan and supply crude oil to local refineries, helping to deepen the development of energy and trade between the two countries. Editor/Min Jing