Dianjian-1, China’s first satellite for energy engineering, was launched from the Dongfeng commercial launch site near the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China and put into its preset orbit on May 15.
The first automated, unmanned light rail in Central Asia went into service on May 16 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The rail is a landmark project of China-Kazakhstan collaboration on infrastructure interconnectivity under the Belt and Road Initiative.
In this first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, construction of several major Chinese oil and gas infrastructure projects has accelerated. Work on key trunk pipelines and gas storage and peak shaving facilities is progressing steadily, further densifying the national oil and gas transmission network. This increasingly interconnected network lays a solid foundation for building China into an energy powerhouse.
The Asia Link Cable (ALC), which was co-built by 12 domestic and international operators, including China Unicom Global Limited (China Unicom) and China Telecom Global Limited, was connected to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on May 14.
The second phase of the magnetic beneficiation plant in New Tangkeli, Sierra Leone, which is built by China Railway First Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited (CREC), began operations on April 29.
At 9 a.m., inside a container-based hydroponic plant factory built with Chinese assistance in the Pacific island nation of Nauru, workers skillfully harvested rows of fresh green lettuce and neatly packed them into baskets. Thirty minutes later, 15 kilograms of vegetables were ready for delivery.
The world’s highest-altitude tower-type solar thermal power plant recently completed the installation of its heliostats, which were made by Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC).
On May 10, Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, rolled out China’s first intelligent production line for the process piping of deep-water oil and gas equipment at its deep-water equipment manufacturing base in Zhuhai City, in South China’s Guangdong Province.
