[Renewable energy plan unveiled in Jinan, Shandong province]On June 27, 2023, the Development and Reform Commission of Jinan City issued a notice and issued the Three-year Action Plan for the High-quality Development of New Energy in Jinan City (2023-2025) (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan). The reporter learned that by 2025, the city's installed capacity of new energy and renewable energy generation will reach 4.3 million kilowatts, and new energy and renewable energy generation will strive to reach 7.4 billion KWH. By 2025, the proportion of new energy and renewable energy generation capacity in Jinan will reach about 32%. The "Action Plan" proposes to further implement the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development and the major strategic decision of carbon peak carbon neutrality in the Yellow River Basin, with the construction of green, low-carbon and high-quality development pilot area as the overall traction, the realization of high-quality development of new energy as the goal, and the construction of a new power system that ADAPTS to the gradual increase in the proportion of new energy as the main line. With the construction of new energy projects as the main starting point, and the innovation of development methods and the expansion of industrial equipment as the main support, we will promote the green and low-carbon transformation of energy structure, strive to achieve high-quality energy development, and help our city reach the peak of carbon neutrality. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
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