At the threshold of Spring Festival, CITIC Construction Chairman Ms. Hong Bo, Vice President of CITIC Construction and Executive Deputy General Manager of America Region Mr. Tao Yang, Assistant President of CITIC Construction and Secretary of America Region Ms. Li Ling inspected Brazil Coking Plant Project and guided the work on site on Jan.30, 2011. They expressed sincere appreciation to the front line staff.
On Nov. 9, the 350WM sub-critical coal-fired generating units of C Section Boiler of Phase II of Brazil Candiota Coal-fired Power Plant Project successfully combined to the grid at 12:00 local time. The commissioning started from Oct. 23 and the units formally combined to the grid after numbers of tests. The units, with high-quality manufacture and installment, have been functioning stably after the combination and all the operational parameters meet the standards.
On Nov. 14, the power generation of coal-fired generating units of Brazil Candiota Coal-fired Power Plant reached the full capacity of 350MW at 17:28, after it started commissioning on Nov. 9 local time. All the parameters are normal at the full capacity and the vapor pressure & temperature are lower than specified indexes. The full-capacity commissioning of the project lays a solid foundation for the next 168-hour commissioning, acceptance and operation.
By Oct.11, Uzbekistan Potash Fertilizer Plant contracted by CITIC Construction has produced 10,000 tons of potash fertilizer since the first batch went off the production line on Aug. 19, 2010. It marks that the Uzbekistan Potash Fertilizer Plant owns feasible production technology, reliable equipment and products with stable quality, and it also marks the plant has entered into the commercial production phase from trial production phase. The successful repeated commissioning by CITIC Construction effectively guaranteed the safe and reliable operation of nearly 1,000 sets of equipment and devices.
On Oct. 10, 2010, PK138 road section (W8 section) of Algeria West-East Expressway Project, located in a border town between Algeria and Morocco, was completed and open to traffic. It marked that the construction of 359 kilometers-long West Section constructed alone by CITIC Construction was completed and put into operation. The West Section has been the first section open to traffic thoroughly among three sections of Algeria West-East Expressway Project.
At 1:00pm on Sep. 1, 2010, XJ Group—CITIC Construction Consortium was ceremoniously awarded Acceptance Certificate of Burma Multi-functional Diesel Engine Plant Project by Mr. U Aye Than, Chief of Burma Motor and Diesel Engine Industry Corporation (MADI) on behalf of the Employer at Hotel AMARA, Nay Pyi Taw. Mr. Chen Xiaojia, Vice President of CITIC Construction, was present at the ceremony and received the Acceptance Certificate.
On Sep.7, 2010, CITIC Construction Chongqing Yanjiang Project Department signed the Steel Supply Contract for 6 sections of the Phase I with CITIC International Co., Ltd. and other related construction partners.
On the afternoon of Sep. 8, 2010, the Boiler Chemical Cleaning of 350MW coal-fired generating units completed smoothly at C Section of Phase II of Brazil Candiota Coal-fired Power Plant Project. This was another milestone of the Project after the Boiler Hydraulic Testing on Jun. 15, which marked the project has entered the stage of comprehensive commissioning and laid a solid foundation for the upcoming Boiler Feed Air Igniting and Overall Start-up of Generating Units.
On Sep. 2, 2010, the Opening Ceremony of W7 Section was held in PK 83 of W7 Section by West Section Project Management Department of Algeria West-East Expressway Project contracted by CITIC Construction. The distinguished guests who attended the ceremony were Amar Ghoul, Algerian Public Works Minister, Liu Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Algeria and his wife Dai Guiqin, Lv Yifeng, Commercial Counsellor of Chinese Ambassy to Algeria, Bentabet Mokhtar, Governor of SIDI Bel Abbas, Nourri Abdelwahab, Governor of Tlemcen, Kamel Belatrecheb, General Manager of New Project Management Department, Wang Jiangsheng, Deputy-chairman of CITIC Construction and Chairman of CITIC-CRCC Consortium.
On Sep.3, 2009, a ceremony of tunnel entrance construction was held at Gushuyan 2# Tunnel of W3 Section of Chongqing Expressway Project contracted by CITIC Construction. Gushuyan 2# Tunnel was the first Tunnel that entered the phase of tunnel entrance construction in Chongqing Expressway Project, which marks that the project has entered a substantive phase of construction.
