[Liaoning transportation key investment will reach 53 billion yuan]According to the Liaoning Provincial Department of Transport, in order to implement the requirements of Liaoning three-year action deployment, Liaoning will promote the implementation of 72 key transportation projects worth more than RMB 100 million in 2023, with an investment of RMB 53 billion, up 15.3% year-on-year. In order to accelerate the resumption of key projects and promote the increase of physical workload and investment, Liaoning focused on solving prominent problems concerned by market entities, and launched ten work measures, including serving the special management of state-owned enterprises, booking services for large-scale transportation, managers of road-related construction projects, cross-provincial handling of high-frequency matters, and high-speed cloud loans for small and micro enterprises, to promote the healthy and sustainable development of market entities. In order to do a good job in bulk transportation reservation service, Liaoning government departments actively docking with more than 50 large manufacturing enterprises such as Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Co., LTD., Sany Heavy Industry Co., LTD., take the initiative to provide door-to-door service, establish windoon-to-door cooperation relationship between government and enterprise for administrative examination and approval, and provide them with reservation system examination and approval service according to the production plan of enterprises. Since 2023, 19,561 large transportation approvals have been handled. With a year-on-year growth of 11%, the average time for cross-provincial approval of three types of major projects was reduced from 15 days to 2.8 days, ranking first in the country. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
On July 27, 2026, the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain approved the overall plan for a joint venture battery factory between CATL and Strantis. The 4.1 billion euro project will land in Zaragoza, with a production capacity of 50GWh and the potential to create 4000 jobs. The factory covers an area of 367000 square meters, and the funds are mostly used for infrastructure and production equipment. Due to the lag in visa and accommodation facilities for foreign personnel, the factory's production will be postponed from the end of 2026 to early 2027. A large number of Chinese technical personnel are required for construction, and the local authorities are promoting the planning of temporary dormitories to ensure construction.Editor/Gong Ziwei
On July 25, 2026, the Tongjiang Extra Large Bridge of Heilongjiang Jiatong Railway completed all beam erection work, and the main project was successfully completed, marking the end of the construction of the main line of Jiatong Railway. The bridge has a total length of over 10 kilometers and is the longest newly-built bridge in the China Europe East Passage port section. As the core control project of the entire line, the bridge will greatly enhance the traffic capacity of Tongjiang Port and increase the freight capacity by more than three times after it is put into operation. The project adopts a bridge instead of road scheme to adapt to frozen soil environment, save black soil resources, and assist in the transportation of bulk commodities for foreign trade at the port.Editor/Gong Ziwei