The “Silk Road Maritime”, a trade data service platform initiated by Fujian Provincial Port Group Co., Ltd., has collected global trade data from 230 countries and regions and 3 million types of commodities since its launch in March. This marks the platform’s upgrade from the building of shipping route networks and its formal entry into a new phase of digital ecosystem development.
The first scheduled China‑Laos‑Thailand express freight train, jointly developed by CRM Supply Chain Technology Group Co., Ltd., under China Logistics Group Co., Ltd. (China Logistics) and the logistics subsidiary of Zhongyu Port Group, arrived on September 1 at Thailand’s Laem Chabang Port. The train carried auto parts from SAIC Motor’s Zhengzhou base.
The summer travel rush has drawn to a close and Hainan Strait Shipping Co., Ltd. (HNSS), a subsidiary of China COSCO SHIPPING Corporation Limited (COSCO SHIPPING), has played a major role in maritime transport across the Qiongzhou Strait and Bohai Bay. By coordinating resources across these waters, HNSS coordinated 65 vessels for 11,198 trips during this travel season, transporting a total of 728,000 vehicles and over 2.51 million passengers.
China Energy Engineering Corporation (Energy China) has recently signed the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract for the Midelt Phase I solar-storage project in Morocco, Africa’s largest solar-storage project in a single site.
The 11th Africa Tech Challenge (ATC) opened at Weifang Vocational College in East China’s Shandong Province on August 28, attracting 68 contestants from six African countries that include Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The participants are all international students in China under the Future of Africa: China-Africa TVET Cooperation Program.
China’s first provincial‑level AI4S (AI for Science) public computing center was officially unveiled on August 30 in Nanjing, the capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province. The center was initiated by Jiangsu Provincial Govemment State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and multiple other provincial departments, and constructed and operated by Jiangsu Data Group (JSDG).
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has made every effort to ensure stable fuel supplies for the disaster‑hit areas, after a devastating mudslide hit Gyirong County in Southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region.
The dam of the world’s first 500-megawatt high-head impluse hydropower unit was successfully topped out on August 25 with a final coat of concrete.
