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.
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.
COSCO SHIPPING Lines Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of China COSCO SHIPPING Corp, Ltd, (COSCO SHIPPING), has teamed up with Changan Automobile, China Construction Bank and Bank of China to issue the world’s first electronic negotiable cargo document (NCD), based on the world’s first official NCD template.
