Shimao Group's contract sales in January were 7.51 billion yuan, up from 20 billion yuan in the same period last year.

Survival Rules for Turbulent Times: A Compilation of the 20 Most Unmissable Core Insights from the 2026 Tsinghua PBCSF Forum

A dialogue between Zhu Min, former Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China and former Vice Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Economics and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business; and Masaaki Shirakawa, former Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the 2026 Tsinghua PBCSF Global Finance Forum.

Apple Intelligence China Beta Due Later in October, with Alibaba’s Qwen Integration

Apple（苹果）plans to release a test version of Apple Intelligence in mainland China later in October, incorporating capabilities from Alibaba’s Qwen（千问）model family. The rollout would bring selected AI features to Chinese users while giving Alibaba a distribution channel within Apple’s device ecosystem.

Transsion Holdings Debuts in Hong Kong, Completing A+H Dual Listing

Shenzhen Transsion Holdings（传音控股）, the Chinese handset maker behind TECNO, itel and Infinix, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 15, completing an A+H dual listing and adding an offshore equity-financing channel to support its emerging-market business.

Building the Data Infrastructure for Physical AI: Hesai Launches Kosmo 3D World Data Engine

Hesai Group (Nasdaq: HSAI; HKEX: 2525) ("Hesai" or the "Company"), a Physical AI infrastructure company, today launched Kosmo, a 3D world data engine built to solve one of the most critical bottlenecks in Physical AI: access to high-quality real-world data at scale.

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.