The Ministry of industry and information technology organized a symposium on low temperature response of electric vehicles, which will speed up the formulation and release of energy consumption identification standards

Chinese Restaurant Brands Going Global: What Keeps Customers Coming Back After the Opening?

How long can the queues outside a brand’s first overseas store last? And how many customers drawn in by the novelty will become regulars? For Chinese restaurant brands expanding internationally, opening a store is only the beginning of the challenge of building a local business and retaining customers.

XPeng Opens European G9L Orders at Paris Motor Show, French Prices Start at €74,990

XPeng (小鹏汽车) launched its G9L flagship SUV in Europe at the Paris Motor Show on October 12, opening orders with French prices starting at €74,990. The launch expands the Chinese automaker’s premium lineup as it develops European manufacturing, engineering and technology partnerships.

Transsion Prices H Shares at HK$35.30 Ahead of Planned October 15 Listing

Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co., Ltd. (传音控股) set its H-share offer price at HK$35.30 on October 13, ahead of an expected Hong Kong Stock Exchange debut on October 15. The smartphone maker, whose business focuses on emerging markets, would add a Hong Kong listing to its Shanghai STAR Market presence, broadening its access to international equity capital.

DeepSeek Reportedly Agrees to Lead Winverse AI Seed Round, Extending Robotics Investment

DeepSeek (深度求索) has agreed to lead a seed financing round worth tens of millions of US dollars for Winverse AI, a startup founded this year by former Tencent scientist Hu Han (胡瀚), Bloomberg reported on October 12. The proposed round would value the company at approximately US$400 million after the investment and includes commitments from Meituan’s Long-Z Investments (龙珠资本).

Ecosia Shifts AI Search Toward Open-Weight Models, Including Chinese LLMs

Ecosia, the Berlin-based search engine, is shifting more of its AI services toward open-weight models, including Alibaba’s Qwen, Z.ai’s GLM and Moonshot AI’s Kimi, through German AI platform Melious. Founder and CEO Christian Kroll told Politico that the change had roughly halved costs while improving quality and performance. The move shows how Chinese-developed models are entering Western products through European hosting and infrastructure.