A rotor was installed on the world’s largest impulse hydropower unit at the Datang Zala Hydropower Station in the Xizang Autonomous Region on August 11.
Unit 2 of the Taipingling nuclear power project in Guangdong Province, a project of China General Nuclear Power Corporation, was officially put into operation on August 3.
Kazakhstan’s 3.45 megawatts/7.72 megawatt-hours energy storage project completed full-process commissioning for grid connection on August 1, marking the country’s first energy storage system ready for operation and opening a new chapter in its grid energy storage era.
The water treatment plant in Kamina, the capital of the southern province of Haut-Lomami in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), began supplying water on July 29, marking a major breakthrough in the DRC’s water treatment infrastructure construction and representing another livelihood achievement stemming from pragmatic cooperation between China and the DRC.
Sinopec Chongqing SVW Chemical Co., Ltd., a China Petrochemical Corporation subsidiary located in Changshou district of Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, recently began operations on a new state-of-the-art polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) resin production line, establishing itself as the world’s largest single-site producer of high-end PVA.
On August 6, hydropower generated in Laos was transmitted to China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area through the China-Laos 500-kilovolt power interconnection project.
Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA) launched a special live-streaming on July 25 to facilitate the sales and consumption of agricultural products in a bid to increase farmers’ incomes. The five-hour live broadcast attracted 53,000 online views and 350,000 likes and interactions, with the total online and offline sales volume exceeding 200,000 yuan ($29,617).
Linghang, the world’s largest-diameter shield tunneling machine, tailored for high-speed railway construction and developed domestically in China, successfully bored its way through an underwater tunnel traversing the Yangtze River on July 30. The achievement set a new world record for a single continuous drive of 11.325 kilometers by a shield tunneling machine with a 15-meter-level diameter.
