[CPECC won the bid for Project Swing EPCM project]CPECC Gulf Region Company has received a letter of award for the Project Swing project from Abu Dhabi State Oil Company's onshore company. This is the first EPCM project won by the Beijing branch in collaboration with Gulf Region Company in the Gulf market. The contract model includes design, procurement services, and construction management, with a contract duration of 39 months (PAC), of which 15 months are required to achieve 95% design progress. The Project Swing project is one of the first EPCM projects initiated by ADNOC Online and is an important project in the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's P5 (5 million barrels per day) production increase plan. By renovating some facilities in Babu, Northeast Babu, and Southeast Oil Fields, the goal of increasing processing capacity by 20% has been achieved, while also increasing supporting facilities for water and gas injection. Editor/Ma Xue
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