乌东德水电站位于四川省会东县和云南省禄劝县交界处金沙江河道上，水电站坝顶高程988米，最大坝高270米，总库容74.08亿立方米。电站安装12台单机容量85万千瓦的水轮发电机组，装机总容量1020万千瓦，年发电量389.1亿千瓦时。
Highway on Tianlong Mountain
The construction of the highway on Tianlong Mountain 天龙山 in Taiyuan, N China’s Shanxi Province started in March 2019 after the old road built in 1996 suffered wear and tear. The new highway is about 30 kilometers long with a vertical gain of 350 meters. The entire highway reconstruction project also includes four bridges and a tunnel. It reduced the grade from 15% to 4%, which has greatly improved safety. The project completed in September 2019.
The world’s first large, three-engine utility drone
The world’s first large, three-engine utility drone recently made its first flight. Developed by Chengdu-based Tengden Technology Co, the drone is a three-engine variant of Tengden’s twin-engine TB Twin-tailed Scorpion, as this design is a world first for drones. The drone has a width of 20 meters and a length of 11 meters. It is equipped with three piston engines, with one under each wing and one on its tail, enabling it to have a maximum takeoff weight of 3.2 tons and an endurance of 35 hours.The drone has a flight ceiling of 9,500 meters, a max climb rate of 10 meters a second and a top speed of more than 300 kilometers an hour.
The world’s largest composite cable-saddle bridge Xiangli Expressway Tiger Leaping Gorge Jinshajiang Bridge
世界上最大的複合索鞍——香麗高速虎跳峽金沙江特大橋複合索鞍安裝完成。至此，香麗高速虎跳峽金沙江特大橋2套主索鞍、2個散索鞍、2個複合索鞍全部安裝到位，大橋即將進入主纜安裝施工。
The two sides of the bridge were joined together on Monday. With a total length of 1,017 meters, the bridge is a key project of the construction of the Shangri-La-Lijiang expressway.
China-Russia highway bridge ready for opening
The first highway bridge connecting #China and #Russia across the Heilongjiang River has recently passed the final acceptance test, the department of transport of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province said Friday.
Experts with Harbin Institute of Technology and counterparts of the Russian side participated in the test on Tuesday. The maximum load capacity of the bridge reached 318 tonnes during the test.
The bridge is expected to open in April, according to the provincial transport department.
Measuring 1,284 meters long and 14.5 meters wide, the bridge across the Heilongjiang River, known in Russia as the Amur River, stretches from Heihe, a border city in Heilongjiang province, to the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk. Two sides of the bridge were joined together on May 31, 2019.
Brazil inaugurates state-of-the-art Chinese built Antarctic base
Brazil inaugurated a brand new state-of-the-art research station in Antarctica this week.
It took eight years and an investment of almost 100 million dollars to build Brazil’s new research station, after the old one was destroyed in a fire in 2012.
This Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is entirely new and built by the Chinese company CEIEC, chosen through an international bidding process.
Myanmar, China ink deals to accelerate Belt and Road as Xi courts an isolated Suu Kyi
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/myanmar-china-ink-deals-to-accelerate-belt-and-road-as-xi-courts-an-isolated-suu-kyi-idUSKBN1ZH054?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29&fbclid=IwAR0lkT1mkNxGtA1zEswIalzFB_fg0BA6egMBwBsvD4drcVqm_jDLbpstIh0
China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor increasingly isolated by the West.
Xi and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi signed 33 agreements shoring up key projects that are part of the flagship Belt and Road Initiative.
They agreed to hasten implementation of the China Myanmar Economic Corridor, a giant infrastructure scheme worth billions of dollars, with agreements on railways linking southwestern China to the Indian Ocean, a deep sea-port in conflict-riven Rakhine state, a special economic zone on the border, and a new city project in the commercial capital of Yangon.
Building a bridge span without any support from below
位于乌蒙山区川滇黔交界处的鸡鸣三省大桥全面建成通车。鸡鸣三省大桥位于我国集中连片特困地区乌蒙山区深处，此处渭河与倒流河交汇入赤水河，形成的“Y”字形大峡谷将四川、云南、贵州三省分割开来，每个省的扇形区域都是临崖绝壁，属于地理区位上的交通死角。鸡鸣三省大桥的建成，不仅解决了群众长久以来相互隔绝、相望难相通的历史，还将贯通鸡鸣三省一带独特的峡谷自然风光和红色旅游资源，密切三省之间的经济往来，助推脱贫攻坚。
Gahai lake in NW China’s Qinghai
Gahai lake in NW China’s Qinghai attracts more than 20,000 birds to live and transit every year, the rare black-necked cranes are among them. AmazingChina:The Black-necked Crane on the Lakeside of the Plateau
The longest hi-speed rail line in China
The longest hi-speed rail line 包海铁路 in China being built, 2300kms, across 7 provinces, from Inner Mongolia to Hainan Island. Operation in 2025