[Winning the bid for the urban renewal project in Yuhuan City, Zhejiang Province]On June 2, 2023, the Zhejiang Government Procurement Network released a bidding and winning announcement for the Yuhuan City Organic Renewal Central Business District Project. The project was won by a consortium of 8 units, including China Railway Construction Investment Group and China Railway Construction Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 7.438 billion yuan. The project covers an area of approximately 882.01 hectares, ranging from Jingba Road in the east to Waihuan West Road in the west, Wei Er Road in the north, Guangling South Road to Chezhan South Road to Liudao Avenue in the south, as well as the Yuhuan City Quality Improvement Base and Urban Balcony Block. The cooperation content includes: overall planning and services for project development; Investment in the development and consolidation of project land; Investment and construction of infrastructure and public service facilities; Investment and construction of resettlement housing; Smart city construction and urban operation, etc. The actual cooperation content of this project is subject to the preliminary design documents reviewed or filed for each sub project. The cooperation period of this project is 15 years, including a construction period of 5 years and an operation period of 10 years. 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