China’s economy, tech, and markets are having a great month already

China’s economy, tech, and markets are having a great month already

China is opening the month with strength across trade, chips, and money markets. Chinese companies tied to cross-border transactions saw their stocks surge after the commerce ministry said the yuan is being used to pay tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. That news sent traders straight into names linked to moving money across borders. In Shenzhen, CNPC Capital, the financial services arm of China National Petroleum, jumped as much as…

Mainland China Lower As Countries Implement Work From Home, Week in Review - China Last Night

Week in Review Asian equities were mostly lower for the week, though Singapore and Hong Kong managed gains, while Mainland China and Taiwan underperformed. On Monday, video platform and Baidu spin-off iQiyi announced it will relist in Hong Kong, filing for an IPO with the exchange. On Tuesday, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the “official” purchasing managers’ indexes (PMIs) overnight, which beat expectations. Humanoid robo…

High-level forum highlights China's push for tech, industrial innovation

BEIJING: The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) Annual Conference has once again drawn global attention to China’s innovation drive, with a focus this year on closer integration between technological and industrial innovation. The latest episode of the China Economic Roundtable, an all-media talk show hosted by Xinhua News Agency, delved into this key theme. Guests from government, industry and academia examined how this alignment could inject …