As the new year begins, Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is accelerating major project construction and resuming business operations, hoping for a strong start to 2025.

At the construction site of Inner Mongolia Energy Group's Jinshan Thermal Power Plant 2×1 gigawatt coal-fired expansion project, workers are as busy as ever.

Project manager Li Junliang stated that the foundation work for the main plant was already completed prior to Spring Festival. Post-holiday efforts are now focused on installing the main and auxiliary equipment, as well as the pipeline system.

To ensure that two 1-GW high-efficiency ultra-supercritical air-cooled coal-fired heating units are put into operation as scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2025, the company is pushing forward with construction as quickly as possible.

Once completed, the project will have an annual power generation capacity of 10 billion kilowatt-hours and an additional heating capacity of 50 million square meters, capable of supplying 1,200 metric tons of industrial steam per hour to urban Hohhot.

In the production workshop of Inner Mongolia Baibang Technology Co, assembly lines are running at full speed. "We have fully resumed operations, and our order volume remains strong. We expect a 30 percent year-on-year increase in import and export volume in the first quarter," said Meng He, assistant general manager of the company.

Meanwhile, at the Hohhot Comprehensive Bonded Zone, businesses are operating at full capacity, racing against time to fulfill orders and meet deadlines. At the main checkpoint, container trucks loaded with goods shuttle back and forth, facilitating global trade. On project construction sites, the sounds of roaring machinery, moving vehicles, and bustling workers set the stage for a productive start to the new year.