During the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Busan, South Korea, on July 25, China’s nomination Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites successfully passed the review and was inscribed on the World Heritage List. With this addition, China now has 61 World Heritage sites on the list.
The Tarim Phase Ⅱ ethylene project and its supporting green and low-carbon facilities, developed by Dushanzi Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), were put into operation on July 16.
At 8 pm on July 23, a Long March 3B carrier rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province to place the Tianlian II-06 satellite into its pre-designated orbit. The launch mission was a complete success.
The expansion project of the Julongliang Wind Farm, an investment of China Datang Corporation Limited, went into full-capacity operation with its final turbine connected to the grid on July 19. The expansion project is China's largest high-altitude mountain wind power project in terms of single-turbine capacity.
Flight CA893 smoothly touched down at the Manas International Airport in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, at 8:35 pm local time on July 17, marking the opening of the first direct route of Air China Limited (Air China) connecting the capitals of China and Kyrgyzstan.
The SHV-HK submarine cable, a direct undersea optical cable connecting Sihanoukville of Cambodia and Hong Kong of China, successfully landed at the Tseung Kwan O L2 Cable Landing Station, a facility of China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (China Unicom), in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, becoming the first submarine cable directly linking the two countries.
Envision AESC’s Yichang Energy Storage Gigafactory, the world’s first full-industrial-chain energy storage base with a 100-gigawatt-hour capacity, has recently gone into operation in Yichang, Central China’s Hubei Province. The operational launch also marked the factory’s first product shipment, the export of 790-Ampere-hour large energy storage cells to Germany.
The No. 3 gas turbine of the 3,000-megawatt combined-cycle power plant in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, the largest gas-fired captive power plant in Africa, was successfully placed in the proper position, ready for subsequent installation.
