China's first deepwater oilfield saw its secondary development project fully commissioned recently, marking a major technological leap for the country in the challenging field of deepwater complex reservoir development and bolstering national energy security, said industry experts.
The Dongfeng Aeolus SKY EV01 model, the first mass-produced passenger vehicle equipped with an independent BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, has been launched by Dongfeng Motor Corporation.
The world’s largest ethylene oxide (EO) reactor, manufactured by China First Heavy Industries (CFHI) for the China-Saudi Arabia Gulei Ethylene Project’s EO/EG unit in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, was shipped from CFHI’s Dalian Nuclear Power and Petrochemical Equipment Manufacturing Base in Dalian, Liaoning Province on December 10.
On December 7, the No. 1 shaft of the Songyang Pumped Storage Power Station in Zhejiang Province was completed, reaching a depth of 637 meters, making it the deepest shaft of its kind in China. This achievement marks a major breakthrough in China’s advanced construction of ultra-deep shafts for pumped storage power stations.
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.