Enflame Technology, one of China's leading cloud graphics processing unit (GPU) makers, listed on the STAR Market, completing the lineup of China's four major artificial intelligence (AI) GPU computing chip companies - known as the "four little dragons" - on the capital market. The group includes Moore Threads, MetaX and Biren.

Japanese streetwear brand WEGO has triggered a new wave of controversy in China after releasing markedly different "apology" statements in Chinese and Japanese over its collaboration with the anime My Hero Academia, which had previously been removed from major Chinese video platforms for using names from the history of Japan's militarist invasion of China, as well as its release date.

China ranks second in the construction of global space infrastructure, according to a report released at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing over the weekend. The US currently stands at the leading position, the report showed.

The 26th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) concluded in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, on Friday, with participating countries and regions and delegations both reaching record highs, highlighting robust global demand for investment cooperation and opportunities in China.

Workers at a factory in Dahua county, Hechi, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, race to complete orders for protective uniforms on September 10, 2026. The factory, a demonstration project backed by China Datang Co to promote rural vitalization, mainly produces personal protective equipment such as anti-static clothing. Photo: VCG

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new public procurement rules that would allow public buyers across the EU to restrict or reject bids from suppliers based in countries not covered by the bloc's procurement agreements, a group that includes China. Chinese experts said that the move represents a further escalation of the EU's trade protectionism.

The US companies in China have witnessed a sharp rebound in business confidence, supported by stronger financial performance, an improved geopolitical landscape and regulatory progress, a business report released by the AmCham Shanghai showed on Thursday.

The China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) is more than an exhibition, as it acts as a platform for learning about and connecting with China and the wider world for Serbian businesses, Jelena Grubor Stefanovic, director of the representative office of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China, told the Global Times at the ongoing CIFIT, the annual investment fair for China, held in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province.

An intelligent traffic robot directs vehicles and pedestrians at an intersection in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang Province, on September 9, 2026, adjusting its orientation in sync with the changing signal lights. The robot handles routine patrols and violation identification, and works eight to nine hours a day, helping to close gaps in traffic management at night and during peak hours. Photo: VCG

Indian steel prices are expected to rise further in the coming weeks, while industry statistics show that hot-rolled coil prices rose by 4,000 rupees ($42.1) per metric ton between August and early September, reaching a four-year high, Reuters reported. Higher steel prices could add to input costs for infrastructure, construction and vehicle companies as demand for steel picks up, and that could weigh on India's manufacturing sector.

China on Wednesday recognized 11 new occupations including shore-based ship management engineering technician, embodied intelligence robot technician, and sports data analyst, and it also recognized 23 new job specialties including community workers and age-friendly renovation designers, according to a document released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other government departments.

A number of Chinese localities including Beijing and Shanghai have recently announced plans for developing high-end, precision and advanced industries as well as building a modern industrial system during the nation's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period.

The Arctic shipping route is moving toward normalized operations, with a Chinese shipping executive saying his company aims to extend the navigation window to six to eight months in the next three to five years. But turning the route into a commercial corridor will require stronger international cooperation on rules, safety and environmental standards.

It is hoped that the US side will earnestly implement the important common understandings reached by the two heads of state and refrain from making unfounded accusations against China. Both China and the US are major countries in artificial intelligence (AI) and should strengthen cooperation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing on Wednesday.

Workers produce energy storage products for export at a workshop in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu Province, on September 8, 2026. Customs data showed China's goods trade reached 34.78 trillion yuan ($5.18 trillion) in the first eight months of 2026, up 17.6 percent year-on-year, with exports rising 14.6 percent to 20.17 trillion yuan. Photo: VCG

The China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT), now in its 26th edition, officially opened on Tuesday in Xiamen, a coastal city in East China's Fujian Province, with its exhibition space reaching a record high.

The escalating US-Canada tariff dispute has become the latest symptom of a tariff-driven trust crisis rooted in Washington's trade policies, Chinese experts warned on Tuesday. As Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods took effect, they noted that growing calls for policy autonomy among US traditional allied economies could push them toward building more stable and reliable economic ties elsewhere.

Both Xiaomi and Huawei held product launches on Monday, unveiling new foldable flagship mobile phones, while Apple confirmed its own autumn event for Wednesday (US time), where its first foldable iPhone is widely expected.

Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its Mate XT 2 tri-fold smartphone on Monday, powered by the latest Kirin 9050 Pro chip – the first high-performance processor to adopt logic folding technology – at a launch event in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province.

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday launched the Mate XT 2 tri-fold smartphone powered by the new Kirin 9050 Pro chip, the first high-performance processor to use logic folding technology.

Changzhou Xingyu Automotive Lighting System Co, in East China's Jiangsu Province, has issued rectification measures over the improper handling of the newly hired university graduates in early August, with the company's general manager's salary to be suspended for one year, and the human resources department director being removed from his post, the company said on Monday.

China's power batteries will enter a stage of large-scale retirement during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), making a comprehensive upgrade of recycling and reuse particularly important, an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said at the 2026 World Power Battery Conference held in Yibin, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Friday. As the country's NEV fleet keeps growing, the first generation of power batteries put on the market is now retiring in bulk.

At her exhibition booth, neatly arranged trays display dried sea cucumbers of various sizes, alongside an assortment of other dried seafood products. Eldha Anggia, a seafood exporter from Indonesia, is attending the show for the very first time. Though her company is still a fledgling business - only two years old - she is brimming with confidence and eager to break into the Chinese market.

A splash of ketchup on the floor became an impromptu challenge for a Chinese robot vacuum at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

The Unit 2 of the Zhaoyuan nuclear power station in East China's Shandong Province started pouring concrete on Saturday, marking the official start of the unit's main works and meaning the first phase of the plant has begun construction. The first phase will have two generating units, which is China's first Hualong-One reactor fitted with cooling towers.

Chinese-branded vehicles wait to be loaded onto a vessel bound for Australia at a port in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province, on September 4, 2026. China's auto exports hit 1.04 million units in July 2026, up 81.3 percent year-on-year, with monthly exports topping 1 million for two straight months and new energy vehicles making up over half of exports for two consecutive months, data show. Photo: VCG

China has launched an international science program to deploy a constellation of cube satellites - small, standardized satellites built in compact modular units - across Earth-Moon space, with research institutions from Thailand, Serbia, Egypt, Senegal, Indonesia and other countries already on board, according to an announcement at the 4th International Deep Space Exploration Conference (Tiandu Forum) held in Hefei, East China's Anhui Province, CCTV News reported on Friday.

German businesses are undergoing a period of reflection amid growing market competition, with some blaming pressure from China while others acknowledge issues at home, Chinese experts noted on Friday after a recent survey indicated the complex views of German firms on business ties with China.

At the display area for BYD - one of China's new-energy vehicle pioneers - the nail penetration test on a blade battery drew particular interest. Delegates leaned in, eyes fixed on the battery as a steel needle pierced through it - no smoke, no fire, no explosion. More visitors crowded around, eager to see for themselves what Chinese EV technology could deliver.

Beyond just application programming interfaces (APIs) and fully developed products, China's artificial intelligence (AI) models are now emerging as foundational tech infrastructure for global developers to build their next-generation AI models, Chinese experts said on Friday, after a Saudi Arabian AI company unveiled a large language model (LLM) based on one from Chinese AI firm MiniMax.

Starting December 5, 2026, China Eastern Airlines will increase flights on its Shanghai Pudong-Auckland-Buenos Aires route, raising the weekly frequency from two to four round-trip flights.

China has for the first time opened its national BeiDou satellite navigation reference station network data to the public, marking a significant step in sharing high-precision space-time information, state broadcaster CCTV News reported on Friday.

China on Thursday warned the EU against threatening to close its market if trade talks fail, and urged the bloc to address concerns on an equal footing and not to make unilateral demands.

China will work to address the reasonable concerns of US companies operating in China, and safeguard a level playing field in accordance with the law, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The world's first space computing cloud to offer in-orbit testing services, led by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), has officially begun providing regular in-orbit computing services, according to BUPT.

A super-large-diameter slurry balance shield machine, developed by China for high-speed railway projects, rolled off the production line in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province recently, marking a critical phase in the construction of Nanjing's first high-speed railway cross-river tunnel, according to the official WeChat account of China Railway Group on Sunday.

South Korean newspaper the Chosun Daily reported on Sunday that investors are watching how shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will trade when markets reopen on Monday, after China's largest DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) posted what the paper called an "earnings surprise" — attention that comes as the Chinese company also took the global lead in next-generation mobile memory as its advanced LPDDR6 memory chip over the weekend.

China's major memory chipmaker CXMT said that it has begun mass production of LPDDR6, its most advanced mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM), with the chips set to be equipped in Xiaomi's 18 Fold flagship foldable mobile phone, a statement from CXMT said on Sunday.

Police in Shanghai's Minhang District recently cracked a criminal case involving the illegal unlocking of drones, in which a perpetrator provides drone-unlocking services under the guise of "legitimate services" such as drone repairing and debugging, state broadcaster CCTV News reported on Sunday.

The Chinese memory-chip giant CXMT recorded revenue of 150.31 billion yuan ($22.37 billion) in the first half of the year, representing a year-on-year increase of 873.64 percent. Net profit reached 77.60 billion yuan, reversing a loss of 2.332 billion yuan in the same period of the previous year, according to its interim report released on Friday evening.

A straight punch lands, sending two humanoid robots into a close-range clash. Nearby, another loses its balance mid-turn, falls to the mat, then gets back on its feet. At the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, punches, kicks, collisions and falls in the freestyle fighting ring drew bursts of cheers from the crowd.

Tiangong Ultra, developed by Beijing-based X-Humanoid, won the 100-meter large-group final in 8.64 seconds at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, resetting the games' own record in the process. That is faster than the best 100-meter time of over 12 seconds at the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games last year.

China's advantages have become important drivers of multinational companies' growth in China, and also key factors that help these companies build competitiveness globally, an official said on Tuesday.

A new record was set again on Tuesday at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, as the Tiangong humanoid robot clocked 8.86 seconds in the first group of the large-size 100-meter semifinal, surpassing its previous record of 9.39 seconds set during the opening ceremony.

China will work with countries around the world to empower industrial upgrading, bridge the development gap through open cooperation, improve global governance through extensive consultation and joint contribution, and continue to contribute China's solutions to global development in the era of AI.

A humanoid robot that grabbed a 400-meter title at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) in Beijing while appearing to "cover its face with both hands" developed the unusual posture by itself during sprinting, its developers said, after clips of the run drew wide attention online.

As more US artificial intelligence (AI) companies appear to be eyeing Chinese open-weight models, Harvey, a San Francisco-based legal AI firm, has recently built its first in-house model, Harvey Tenet, on top of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, underscoring the growing appeal of Chinese open-weight technology among US developers.

The Tiangong team won the first gold medal of the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) on Sunday, with the Tiangong Ultra robot clocking 38.15 seconds in the 400-meter (Large Group) final. The result was faster than the human world record of 43.03 seconds, held by South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk.

The main structure of Asia's largest offshore crude oil processing platform, the Huizhou 19-6 platform, reached its highest construction point, or topped out in offshore Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, on Saturday, according to media reports. Once completed, the platform will be used for the development and production of a large integrated oilfield with reserves of over 100 million tons in the Pearl River Mouth Basin.

China's top economic planner on Friday released a draft on the revised measures for managing outbound investment, which improves a reporting system for major adverse events and sets up an annual outbound investment mechanism to better protect the outbound investment rights and interests of Chinese companies, other organizations, and individuals.

With Apple's autumn launch event approaching, contract manufacturer Foxconn is rolling out a large-scale urgent recruitment campaign in China. Since mid-August, Foxconn's core plants in Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, Nanning and other cities have successively started emergency hiring, to meet production capacity for the Apple iPhone 18 Pro series as well as the company's first foldable phone (expected to be named iPhone Ultra after launch), according to media reports.

Beijing-based toymaker Pop Mart, creator of Labubu and other hit original-IP characters, posted first-half 2026 revenue of 17.17 billion yuan ($2.55 billion), up 23.8 percent year-on-year, as its Twinkle Twinkle Star IP surged over 580 percent to become the group's fastest-growing series, according to the company's financial results released on Thursday.

Shares of Unitree Robotics tumbled more than 18 percent on Thursday, their second day of trading, giving back a significant portion of the spectacular gains of 460 percent recorded on debut.

A robot that can be dropped into an unfamiliar environment — including a home — and complete around 80 percent of tasks would mark the "ChatGPT moment" for humanoid robots, a tipping point the industry could reach in two to three years, Wang Xingxing, founder and chairman of Unitree Robotics, said on Thursday.

As China's major river-to-sea Pinglu Canal enters the final stage of preparations before its official opening in September, representatives from companies say the canal will be a game changer for regional economic development and has already become a calling card in business expansion.

China's robotics start-up Unitree Robotics surged 629.44 percent to open at 1,100 yuan ($163.12) per share in its debut on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Its total market capitalization once reached 444.9 billion yuan.

The little known Chinese animated film Niu Lai has staged an unexpected box office comeback after its rough production and unconventional storyline turned it into an online sensation, spawning a wave of memes and parody videos while also drawing attention from A-share investors.

The first nuclear fuel loading of Unit 7 at the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province, was successfully completed on Tuesday, which indicates the unit has entered the nuclear commissioning phase, laying a solid foundation for subsequent reactor criticality, grid connection and power generation, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday.

Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics announced on Monday that it will list on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) on Wednesday, under the stock code 688836, an announcement released on the SSE showed.

Chinese startup CoolFly Co has unveiled Urban, the world's first standing-posture manned flying vehicle, using its self-developed dual-redundant flight control system. The "air skateboard" can be mastered within minutes and is moving toward mass production this year, the company told the Global Times on Monday.

Multiple Chinese companies released their interim earnings reports last week, showing that from catering to e-commerce, industry, and software, the artificial intelligence (AI) transformation has delivered tangible gains in efficiency, cost optimization and growth.

In a sunlit activity room at Shenzhen Nursing Home in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, the day unfolds with quiet companionship from robots that have become part of the elders' daily lives.

China Union Holdings Ltd Disclosed in a Sunday filing that it has received a notice from Canada's Foreign Investment Review and Economic Security (FIRES) authority over its investment in the Arizaro lithium brine project in Argentina, with the Canadian side saying the investment could be injurious to Canada's national security. The seller had written to the agency in advance but received no reply before the notice was issued.

The Bank of China's Guangzhou branch in South China's Guangdong Province recently launched the BOC Computing Power Token Loan in the city's Haizhu district, describing it as the province's first credit product built around the token economy, working across the supply, circulation and application of tokens to channel funds to companies developing AI models.

The upcoming 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games to be held in Beijing will see robot players stay at the “Robot Home,” as the organizing committee innovatively established on-site support centers that meet the needs for pre-competition training and power recharging – similar to athletes' village for human competitors, according to media reports.

When even major US allies and trading partners are swept into Washington's alleged China-linked transshipment network, is the US still cracking down on its so-called illegal tariff evasion, or is it raising its "small yard, high fence" higher and tighten it further by wielding its tariff stick and extending tariff controls across normal global supply chains?

Chinese semiconductor firm Wingtech Technology on Friday reported a net loss of 406 million yuan ($56.7 million) for the first half of 2026, swinging from a profit of 474 million yuan a year earlier, after its subsidiary Nexperia's Dutch entity stopped supplying wafers to its China operations, affecting production, the company said in its financial results.

Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) reported a jump of 261.7 percent in its second-quarter net profit, with revenue topping $3 billion. SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun on Friday attributed the sharp growth to surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-related supporting chips.

Tencent Holdings Ltd's financial report for the second quarter of 2026 has quickly captured market attention, especially for its massive spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

Editor's Note: The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) calls for building a modern industrial system, consolidating the foundation of the real economy, and accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and self-strength to lead the development of new quality productive forces. These goals have provided clear direction for industrial transformation and upgrading across various sectors, while injecting strong momentum into high-quality development. The Global Times has launched a new column titled "Chinese Industry Close-up." Focusing on the creation of a new development pattern, the column will delve deeply into vivid examples of industrial transformation and upgrading across various sectors, aiming to showcase China's innovation-driven and high-quality development. This is the second half of the second installment of the series.

The second World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) will be held in Beijing on August 22 at the National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the "Ice Ribbon," doubling its event roster and sharply tightening the rules of autonomy control — a shift expert says moves the benchmark for Chinese humanoid robots from simply finishing a task to finishing it fast, accurately, steadily, and without human's remote control.

Nation's value added in the service sector grew 5.2 percent year-on-year, 0.5 percentage points faster than overall economic growth. Retail sales of services rose 5.3 percent year-on-year. In the first half of the year, the service sector expanded steadily, playing an important role in supporting industrial upgrading and meeting people's livelihood needs.

Alibaba Cloud on Tuesday officially launched its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance in Ulanqab, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the first batch of instances now available for sale in the region.

China noted that the central and local governments of Spain have made positive comments about the project, and China stands ready to continue deepening practical cooperation with Spain under the principles of mutual respect and mutual benefit, Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Wednesday.

The Pinglu Canal in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region started live-ship navigation trial on Wednesday. It is the first full-channel, all-vessel-type live-ship trial on the canal and the last test before the waterway fully opens to navigation in September, the CCTV News reported.

Manus, an AI agent released by Singapore-based tech start-up Monica, said in a note to users on Tuesday that it will soon return to operating as an independent company.

US-based Mammoth Freighters decided to establish China's first Boeing 777 wide-body passenger-to-freighter conversion production line in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, making the city the world's third and the Asia-Pacific's only Boeing 777 conversion hub.

China's Unitree Robotics announced on Tuesday evening the preliminary results of its offline share placement and the winning numbers for its online offering as part of its initial public offering (IPO) on the STAR Market. A total of 19,414 winning numbers were issued in the online offering, with each winning number entitled to subscribe for 500 A-shares.

Northwest China's Qinghai Province ran its first freight train directly to Laos on Tuesday, hauling 1,150 tons of urea produced by Qinghai Yuntianhua International Fertilizer Co out of the Shuangzhai logistics center in Xining and onto the China-Laos Railway for Vientiane. The shipment marks the first time the plateau province has exported its own urea on its own account, and a breakthrough in its drive to open an international logistics corridor into ASEAN, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies are gaining a growing foothold among international users, with their models topping rankings on some leading industry platforms, ahead of their US counterparts.

In recent years, some economies, anxious about their own industrial competitiveness and market position, have politicized economic and trade issues, taking turns to hype false narratives such as "China overcapacity" and a "China Shock 2.0," and using them as pretexts to roll out protectionist measures.

Editor's Note: The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan called for building a modern industrial system, consolidating the foundation of the real economy, and accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and self-strength to lead the development of new quality productive forces. These goals have provided clear direction for industrial transformation and upgrading across various sectors, while injecting strong momentum into high-quality development. The Global Times has launched a new column titled "Chinese Industry Close-up." Focusing on the creation of a new development pattern, the column will delve deeply into vivid examples of industrial transformation and upgrading across various sectors, aiming to showcase China's innovation-driven and high-quality development. This is the second installment of the series.

Fireworks bloomed in golden-red sparks across the night sky, the hems of Hanfu skirts swaying gently in the glow of the lanterns, while the steam from soup dumplings mingled with the bustling sounds of the marketplace. Several foreign tourists held up their phones to capture the atmosphere. This was an ordinary day in Kaifeng, Central China's Henan Province, yet every corner brimmed with the lively atmosphere of Song-era life and an open, welcoming warmth.

Due to intense demand, the final online winning rate of Unitree Robotics' IPO - China's first humanoid robot A-share stock - is razor-thin 0.0181 percent, the company announced on Monday. In plain language: you needed to be one of the lucky 5,525 applicants to get shares.

China's largest pork-producing province has introduced a genomic breeding tool designed for indigenous pig breeding, a sign that the province is shifting from expanding volume toward improving hog quality.

Global automakers are forging deeper and longer-term ties with China, as the country's role evolves beyond a key market into an increasingly important hub for automotive research and development (R&D) and innovation.

Apple Intelligence has been formally integrated with Alibaba's Qwen model on macOS, according to Apple's Chinese website on Saturday, enabling voice assistant and text-generation functions and marking a significant step forward in the rollout of Apple's AI services in the Chinese market.

A US federal judge on Friday temporarily "barred the Pentagon from including Chinese biotechnology group WuXi AppTec on a list of companies believed to support Beijing's military," according to Reuters. Chinese experts said the ruling sends a positive signal for Chinese companies operating in the US, showing that Washington's arbitrary, fact-deficient national security blacklists are not beyond challenge and that firms should make greater use of legal means to defend their legitimate rights.

Chinese robot company Unitree Robotics held an online investor meeting on Friday for its initial public offering (IPO) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market, with Unitree founder Wang Xingxing saying the firm will continue to advance key software and hardware technologies and explore a broader range of product forms and models.

China's largest artificial intelligence (AI) computing industrial park has been completed and put into operation in Ulanqab, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is also the single AI data center (AIDC) with the largest token output capacity in the world, the builder stated on Thursday.

China firmly opposes the US' overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to unjustifiably suppress Chinese companies. Protectionism will not enhance US competitiveness, a spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the US told the Global Times on Thursday.

Chinese robot maker Unitree Robotics began a preliminary inquiry for its initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) on Wednesday. Chinese investment banks widely estimated that the company's post-IPO valuation could exceed 40 billion yuan ($5.9 billion), potentially pushing the issue price above 100 yuan per share.

The US administration is reportedly drafting a ban on US imports of new models of Chinese data center components, Reuters reported, citing four people familiar with the matter. A Chinese veteran industry analyst said the move shows that the US' unilateral attempts to curb China's technological development is expanding from individual technology sectors to the broader digital infrastructure ecosystem.

A second-quarter report released by market research firm Counterpoint Research on Tuesday showed that the Chinese memory-chip giant CXMT's market share surged 716 percent year-on-year to 7 percent, making it the world's fastest-growing dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) supplier during the period.

China released a mandatory national standard for autonomous driving system safety on Tuesday, which will take effect on July 1, 2027. It aims to establish a unified safety baseline for level 3 and level 4 autonomous driving systems, regulate technology development, enhance road safety, strengthen corporate responsibility, and support the industry's healthy and sustainable growth.

The US-based OpenRouter, a leading global AI platform, released its latest weekly ranking of AI model usage, with all of the top five models developed by Chinese companies, a trend that a Chinese industry analyst said underscored the rapid rise of Chinese tech firms in the emerging AI sector despite the US' attempts to contain their development.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently added 43 Chinese companies to its "Entity List" under the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" (UFLPA), with the move taking effect on Monday. The targeted companies include firms from industries such as snacks and dumplings, prompting Chinese netizens and experts to question the rationale behind the politically motivated move.

Sinopec Chongqing SVW Chemical Co Ltd opened a 50,000-ton-per-year specialty polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) unit on Monday, taking the site's total annual capacity to 210,000 tons and making it the world's largest single-plant production base for high-end PVA production, CCTV News reported.

US lawmakers have requested information from food delivery company DoorDash on its use of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models, CNBC reported over the weekend. Chinese industry experts said on Sunday that the US lawmakers' actions are largely driven by a political agenda to curb the rising adoption of Chinese AI models in the US, reflecting a deep worry of losing its sci-tech hegemony. Such actions would raise the costs of US companies and consumers, they warned.

The People's Bank of China (PBC), the central bank, pledged to keep monetary policy moderately loose in the second half of 2026, to be accompanied by more pragmatic, effective, incremental measures, while implement stronger counter-cyclical adjustment to expand domestic demand and optimize market supply, it said on Sunday.