Built by China Railway 14th Bureau Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Railway Construction Corp, a super-large diameter shield machine positioned on the No 2 tunnel of the Tianjin Binhai International Airport for the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway, started tunneling on April 10. This marks the official start of the first shield tunneling under an operational airport for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei high-speed railway.
Installation of the digital control system (DCS) of the Linglong One, a multi-purpose, small modular pressurized water reactor self-developed by the China National Nuclear Power Corporation, started in Changjiang, in China's southernmost island province of Hainan, on April 10, laying the foundation for the subsequent availability of the main control room.
China's second domestically-built large cruise ship entered a shipyard in Shanghai on Saturday for final assembly.
China has started the mass production of carbon-14 through the use of a commercial nuclear reactor, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).
The CR450 bullet train, China's most recently designed high-speed train model, will be able to operate at speeds of 400 kilometers per hour, according to the country's railway operator.
CMA CGM PARATY, the No 3 vessel of the dual-fuel liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered large container ship series, was named and delivered at China State Shipbuilding Corp's Changxing shipbuilding base in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, on April 9.
The second Hualong One, a domestically designed third-generation nuclear reactor, was connected to the grid for the first time in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on April 9.
The world's first 300-megawatt compressed air energy storage (CAES) station in Yingcheng, Central China's Hubei province, was successfully connected to grid on April 9.
