[3.5GW Photovoltaic Project Settled in Pu'er City, Yunnan Province]On September 26, 2023, Guangdong Hydropower and Shenzhen Tianli Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. signed a new energy and new materials investment cooperation agreement with the Yunnan Simao Industrial Park Management Committee in Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. The three parties are working together to invest and construct a 3.5GW centralized photovoltaic power generation project in the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. The total investment of the project is expected to be 14 billion yuan, and the project is planned to be constructed in stages. 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