On February 1 local time, the full-track installation of Algeria's Western Mining Railway was completed. Jointly constructed by China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) and Algerian state-owned enterprises, it is Africa's first heavy-haul desert railway built by a Chinese enterprise.
More than 20 Chinese sturgeon fingerlings were seen swimming at the Yangtze River rare fish conservation center of China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) in Yichang, Central China’s Hubei Province. These roughly 10-centimeter fish are the first group of fry hatched from eggs naturally spawned and fertilized by fully captive-bred parents during a recent "controlled natural spawning experiment" conducted in the Yangtze River. Currently, they have successfully begun feeding and are in good growth condition.
On February 5, the world’s first 20-megawatt offshore turbine was successfully debugged and connected to the grid in the waters off Fujian Province in East China. China’s pioneering attempt to install, debug and connect a 20-megawatt offshore turbine to the grid also marks its growing capacities in the R&D, offshore construction and operation of turbines with ultra-large installed capacity.
A China-Europe Railway Express train, loaded with high-quality products from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, sounded its whistle for departure from Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province. It will arrive in Moscow via Manzhouli Land Port in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This is the 1,000th train of the China-Europe Railway Express (Shenzhen), marking Shenzhen’s active participation in the Belt and Road Initiative and foretelling a new chapter of win-win cooperation.
The construction of a 300-megawatt floating photovoltaic (PV) power station has begun in Batang Berjuntai, Malaysia. Constructed by China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), it is expected to be the largest single floating PV power plant in Malaysia and is poised to generate about 640 million kilowatt-hours annually once operational, meeting the needs of 150,000 local households.
The Shanghai Port, operated by Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd. (SIPG), handled 5.063 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of throughput in January, setting a monthly record.
China TravelSky Holding Company Limited (TravelSky) launched a cross-airline automatic ticket transfer system with Air Macau. The system has been successfully used to process tickets, providing an effective solution to enhance inter-airline service collaboration.
At 10:16 p.m. on January 13, a modified version of the Long March-6 carrier rocket lifted off at Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China’s Shanxi Province. The rocket deployed the Yaogan-50 01 remote sensing satellite into its preset orbit.
