World's First Four-Main-Cable Double-Deck Suspension Bridge with Varying Sag: China's Yanji Yangtze River Bridge's 12 km "Aerial Corridor" Completed
2026-07-24
In July 2026, good news came from the banks of the Yangtze River in China. The deck paving construction of the Hubei Yanji Yangtze River Bridge is entering its final stage—this world's first four-main...
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China's First Monitoring and Intelligent Regulation System for Condensation Water Inside Grottoes Completed at Yungang Grottoes
2026-07-23
The Yungang Grottoes, a World Cultural Heritage site enduring over 1,500 years of weathering, has finally acquired a "smart nervous system" capable of "sensing" its own health—China's first monitoring...
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MIT Writes Printer 'Physical Limits' into Algorithm, 3D-Printed Concrete Bridge Achieves Up to 76% Lightweighting Potential
2026-07-23
Concrete is the most widely used building material on Earth, with its production process contributing approximately 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. 3D-printed concrete is seen as a crucial path...
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"Chengdu-Made" World's Largest Double Shield TBM to Roll Off Assembly Line This Month: 13.01 Meters in Diameter, Excavation Efficiency Increased by 3 to 5 Times
2026-07-21
In July 2026, at the production base of China Railway Hi-Tech Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. in Xinjin District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, a "steel dragon" with a diameter of 13.01 meters is enterin...
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"ZhiZhu JingWei" Well-Opening Robot Ends the Era of Manual Well Entry, Ushering Urban Underground Pipelines into Unmanned Inspection Age
2026-07-20
In July 2026, the "ZhiZhu JingWei" well-opening robot, independently developed by China's State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company, made its public debut at the 2026 World Artificial Intel...
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China Building Materials Academy Overcomes Challenge of One-Piece Molding of Meter-Scale Silicon Carbide, Equipping High-End Equipment with a "Ceramic Engine"
2026-07-18
In July 2026, a special report by CNR highlighted the breakthrough achievements of Liu Zetan, a young scientific research backbone at the Xianyang Ceramics Research Institute of China Building Materia...
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"World's Top Pipe Jacking": China's Nantong Ligang Water Plant Sets Guinness World Record with 3,214.96-Meter Ultra-Long Underwater Pipe Jacking
2026-07-16
At 10 a.m. on July 5, 2026, at a depth of 43 meters beneath the Yangtze River, a "water intake umbilical cord" lying across the riverbed officially entered the annals of history. The water intake pipe...
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World's Longest Undersea Road Tunnel Main Line Completed: "Deep Blue" Finishes at 96 Meters Under the Sea, Overcoming World-Class Challenge of 0.96 MPa Ultra-High Water Pressure
2026-07-15
On July 14, 2026, at a depth of 96 meters below sea level in China's Jiaozhou Bay, the "Deep Blue," a super-large-diameter slurry balance tunnel boring machine (TBM) with an excavation diameter of 15....
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Single Machine Covers All Coating Construction Processes: Fengtan P600 Max Robot Boosts Efficiency by 7 Times, Cuts Costs by Two-Thirds
2026-07-13
In the construction industry, where the pain points of "dangerous, complex, dirty, and heavy" tasks urgently need to be addressed, coating construction—one of the most labor-intensive and environmenta...
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Industry's First Embodied Intelligent Welding Robot Released: 3-Minute "Zero-Barrier" Onboarding
2026-07-13
The average age of welders has reached 45, with a shortage exceeding 3 million. High temperatures, dust, noise, and arc light—young people are voting with their feet. As the "industrial tailors" face ...
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World's First! Nano Foam Concrete Shield Grouting Technology Successfully Applied in Macau
2026-07-12
Segment floating in tunnel construction has been a global challenge plaguing the engineering community for nearly a century in shield tunneling. Now, this problem has been successfully solved in the N...
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China's Largest Tonnage New Energy Bridge Erection Machine "Tuqiang" Completes 180-Degree "Aerial Turn"
2026-07-10
Recently, China's largest tonnage new energy bridge erection machine, the "Tuqiang," successfully completed a 180-degree turning operation on Section X of the Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo High-Speed ...
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