[Hunan Ningyuan County Yuanyuan Wind Farm Project Successfully Signed]On the morning of September 13, 2023, the Commerce Bureau of Ningyuan County, Hunan Province, on behalf of the government, held a signing ceremony with Yuanyuan Energy Co., Ltd. regarding the Yuanyuan Wind Farm project. The Yuanyuan Wind Farm project plans to invest 400 million yuan and is located in Shuishi Town, with a land area of approximately 12 acres. The project will construct facilities such as wind turbines and booster stations, with an installed capacity of 40000 kilowatts for wind power projects. The signing and implementation of this project will further strengthen the development and construction of new energy in Ningyuan County, optimize the energy structure, and inject new vitality into the economic and social development of Ningyuan County.
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