A 14-meter-class ultra-large-diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM), Fenji, rolled off the production line on March 31 in Nantong City, East China’s Jiangsu Province. The machine, built by China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC), will be used in the Yangtze River tunnel section of the Yancheng-Yixing High-Speed Railway.
Using advanced construction technology from China, a dual-girder, self-balancing launching gantry placed a precast T-beam into position on the Mfuti Bridge in Kinshasa, the capital city of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), on March 29.
A ceremony was held on March 26 in Anapolis, Brazil, to celebrate the roll-out of the UNI-T, a new SUV of Changan Automobile.
The Changyin-8, China’s first fixed-wing cargo drone with a 7-ton takeoff weight, made its maiden flight on March 31 in Zhengzhou, the capital of Central China’s Henan Province.
The eastern and western main towers of the Shiziyang Grand Bridge, a double-deck suspension bridge with the world’s largest main span, were topped out on March 26. The two 342-meter towers have become the highest bridge towers in the Pearl River Estuary.
The Jialing River Grand Bridge, a part of the Chengdu-Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway, was closed. The bridge, which was constructed by Sichuan Road & Bridge Group Co., Ltd. and financed by Sichuan Shudao Railway Operation and Management Group Co., Ltd., is the longest bridge of its type in the world.
The world’s first nanoscale micro-vibration laboratory has started operations in Xiong’an New Area, a national-level development project about 100 kilometers southwest of Beijing. The lab, built by State Development and Investment Group Co., LTD. (SDIC Group), is a national-level technological innovation platform in the high-end manufacturing sectors.
The 200-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour independent shared energy storage power station in Xuwen County, Zhanjiang City of Guangdong Province, was connected to the grid on March 14.
