[Huaneng Lingao 600MW Sea Breeze project started!]On December 5, Huaneng started construction on Lingao Offshore Wind Farm, Hainan's first offshore wind power project, which is planned to install 600,000 kilowatts and will be fully completed by 2024. At the commencement ceremony, Deng Jianling, general manager and deputy secretary of the Party Group of China Huaneng Group Co., LTD., and relevant leaders of Hainan Provincial Party Committee and provincial government and heads of relevant departments jointly laid the foundation for the project. Huaneng Lingao offshore wind power project is one of the "14th Five-Year Plan" construction and production projects approved by the National Energy Administration in the "Hainan Offshore Wind Farm Project Planning", and is also one of the "14th Five-Year Plan" offshore wind power demonstration projects in Hainan Province. The project is located in the northwest sea area of Lingao County, Hainan Province. After completion, it can provide nearly 1.9 billion KWH of green electricity to Hainan every year, which is equivalent to saving 560,000 tons of standard coal and reducing 1.56 million tons of carbon dioxide. It has significant economic, social and environmental benefits, and is of great significance to the construction of Hainan's clean energy island and the extension and development of offshore wind power industry chain. 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