Uzbekistan’s Tashkent Solar Energy Storage Project, the largest electrochemical energy storage facility in Central Asia, was successfully connected to the grid on December 5.
At 23:08 on December 9, a Long March 3B carrier rocket launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, successfully placing an experiment satellite, the Communication Technology Demonstrator 22, into orbit.
On December 8, China Energy Investment Corporation announced a major breakthrough in one of its top ten flagship science and technology projects—the Heavy-Haul Grouped Train Operation Control System—with the successful trial of the world’s first 35,000-ton heavy-haul train group.
China, on Thursday, launched the maiden flight of a new type of large, multifunctional unmanned jet that can undertake both civilian and military tasks.
On December 4, China Eastern Airlines flight MU745 took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, heading to Auckland, New Zealand and ultimately to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
According to the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), as of November this year, 18 ultra-large 270,000-cubic-meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks have been built using the company’s self-developed CGTank® technology, accounting for nearly 70 percent of global tanks in this category, ranking first worldwide.
China's first national-level continental shale oil demonstration zone, located in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, has achieved its annual crude oil production target of 1.7 million metric tons ahead of schedule, its operator, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said.
The annual production of Gulong shale oilfield in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, has exceeded 1 million metric tons, Daqing Oilfield Co, a subordinate of China National Petroleum Corp, announced on Friday.