China's catering revenue reached 5.7982 trillion yuan in 2025, up 3.2% year on year, while the number of listed catering merchants nationwide rose to 7.5777 million by the end of 2025, a net increase of 721,400 from the end of 2023, according to the 2026 China Catering Industry Annual Report. Fast food and snack outlets totaled 3.516 million, or 46.4% of all merchants, and third-tier cities had the most outlets, at 1.7152 million.
Nvidia's RTX 5090 has sold out across US online retail channels, with official inventory depleted in under a week. Newegg and Amazon list only third-party sellers, priced from USD 6,395 to USD 9,500, or roughly RMB 42,900 to RMB 63,730 at 15 September 2026 exchange rates. The card's median price was USD 4,299 in June 2026 and its lowest price USD 5,199 in early September 2026 before online stock disappeared within under two weeks.
A boycott called PlayStation Blackout, organized by game preservation group Does It Play, urged PS5 owners to switch off their consoles for seven consecutive days at the end of August 2026 to protest Sony's planned halt of physical PlayStation disc production. Circana data showed no significant change in US PS5 player numbers or activity during that week, though its figures exclude markets outside the United States. Sony first responded in July 2026, with CFO Lin Tao saying the company would proceed cautiously.
On September 15, 2026, Zhengzhou sold a residential plot in Erqi District with a planned gross floor area of 148,105.7 square metres and a floor area ratio of 2.9. The starting price was RMB 918 million, or RMB 6,200 per square metre. Zhenghong Real Estate won the site for RMB 1.218 billion, equal to RMB 8,226 per square metre, a premium of 32.67%.
The fifth BeiDou Scale Application International Summit opened on September 15 in Zhuzhou, Hunan, with 41 projects slated for signing and contracted investment and contract value totaling RMB 5.54 billion. Four international cooperation projects account for RMB 1.45 billion, both records for the summit. China's BeiDou spatiotemporal industry output reached RMB 629 billion in 2025, while Hunan's BeiDou industry output was RMB 78.2 billion, about 12% of the national total, up 28.2% year on year.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity has published a policy report warning that frontier artificial intelligence models are compressing the cyberattack timeline, with vulnerabilities weaponized within 15 minutes of disclosure and an average of about 72 minutes from initial intrusion to data theft. The report cites risks to open-source maintainers and legacy systems, and calls for a shift to zero-trust architecture, network segmentation, strict privilege isolation, and investment in defensive AI integrated into software development and security operations.
Waymo, Japanese ride-hailing operator GO Inc. and taxi company Nihon Kotsu said on September 15, 2026 that they plan to launch Japan's first fully autonomous commercial taxi service in Tokyo in 2027. The service will start with a small fleet and expand to about 100 vehicles covering major areas of Tokyo, subject to regulatory approval and continued validation of Waymo's technology and operating model. Rides will be bookable through the GO and Waymo apps.
Singapore Exchange, which launched crypto perpetual futures locally in November 2025, has received approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for its application to offer the same products to US institutional investors. The exchange is working with US clearing members and plans to onboard clients in an orderly manner over the next one to two months, connecting US capital with Asian liquidity pools.
China's construction sector contracted sharply in the first half of 2026, with total output of RMB 11.94 trillion, down 12.71% year on year, and new contracts of RMB 11.98 trillion, down 14.13%. Among the eight major state-owned construction groups, only China National Chemical Engineering posted growth in new orders, revenue and net profit. Listed construction companies recorded revenue of RMB 3.62 trillion, down 9.1%, and net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 68.4 billion, down 26.2%.
Offshore Oil Engineering Co. said on 15 September 2026 that construction has begun at its Qingdao international high-end equipment manufacturing base in Shandong on the Qatar BH EPIC project, the redevelopment of Qatar's Bul Hanine oilfield. The contract, valued at USD 4 billion, is the largest, broadest and most technically demanding international offshore oil and gas engineering, procurement, installation and construction package won by a Chinese company. The work site lies about 100 kilometres east of Qatar's coastline, where maximum water depth is about 40 metres.
The Langjiang pumped-storage station in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, the first variable-speed pumped-storage project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, began filling its upper and lower reservoirs on the morning of September 15, 2026. The simultaneous start of impoundment moves the project into its final commissioning sprint.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of the electronic information manufacturing industry, setting out the sector's next phase of development. The plan calls for expanding intelligent application scenarios including space photovoltaics and offshore photovoltaics, and for achieving breakthroughs in perovskite tandem technology.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of the electronic information manufacturing industry. The plan calls for advancing research, development and industrialization of the fifth-generation reduced instruction set architecture, RISC-V.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have issued a development plan for the electronic information manufacturing sector. The plan calls for accelerating advanced storage capacity, improving distributed and hyper-converged storage systems, and advancing a tiered data storage architecture. It also targets breakthroughs in intelligent tiered storage and related technologies, and the development of high-bandwidth flash, high-bandwidth memory, ferroelectric, resistive, and magnetoelectric memory products.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of the electronic information manufacturing industry on September 15, 2026. The plan calls for advancing the spatiotemporal information industry, deepening the large-scale application of BeiDou and moving it from industry use toward broad public adoption, and making forward-looking arrangements for satellite internet, including direct-to-satellite terminal applications and a stronger terminal industry ecosystem.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of the electronic information manufacturing industry. The plan calls for consolidating the foundations of the photonics industry and advancing technological breakthroughs in core segments of the sector.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of electronic information manufacturing, setting out arrangements for the sector's next stage of development. The plan calls for developing high-end chip products, specifically high-performance processors, high-density memory, and high-reliability analog and mixed-signal chips.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the electronic information manufacturing industry. The plan targets breakthroughs across the integrated circuit supply chain, high-end electronic components and materials, photonics, and advanced photovoltaics including perovskite tandem cells. It calls for shelf-ready industrial base products, stronger supply chain resilience, and pilot testing and application verification platforms.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the electronics and information manufacturing industry on September 15, 2026. By 2030, above-scale enterprises are to exceed 30 trillion RMB in revenue, with research and development intensity reaching 3.5%. The plan sets 17 tasks and nine special columns across four areas, covering integrated circuits, computing, electronic components, and new growth drivers.
Between 2016 and 2026, Bank of Jiangsu overtook Bank of Beijing on core metrics while Bank of Ningbo surpassed Bank of Shanghai, also exceeding Bank of Beijing in market value, revenue and net profit. At end-June 2026, Bank of Jiangsu's total assets reached RMB 5.6 trillion and Bank of Ningbo's approached RMB 4 trillion. Their 2025 revenues were RMB 87.9 billion and RMB 72 billion respectively.
On September 11, 2026, leading producer Lomon Billions issued a price-increase notice for titanium dioxide, raising domestic prices by RMB 700 per tonne and international prices by USD 100 per tonne. More than ten domestic producers, including Annada, Guocheng, Taineng Chemical and Dawn Titanium, followed with matching RMB 700 per tonne increases. The move marks the sixth collective price increase in China's titanium dioxide industry in 2026.
The eighth China Grain Trade Conference concluded in Hunan with 29.2 million tonnes of grain and oil and 2,111 units of grain machinery sold or covered by letters of intent, worth RMB 87.871 billion. Eighteen interprovincial strategic cooperation agreements were signed, alongside six government-enterprise, 12 enterprise, six consumption-assistance and seven university talent agreements. The event drew more than 3,100 exhibitors and over 20,000 participants across nearly 100,000 square metres.
A listed consumer-sector company has completed and put into operation China's first lighthouse factory for soy sauce brewing. Viewed from its observation deck, the site features rows of contiguous glass fermentation ponds. The development comes as listed consumer companies accelerate their three-new strategy, though no specific companies, locations, or investment figures were disclosed.
Track laying has started on the Shanghai-Nanjing section of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei high-speed railway in Nantong, Jiangsu province. China Railway First Group is building the section, where the first pair of 500-meter rails was positioned. The roughly 554-kilometer line is designed for 350 km/h and will have 16 stations, forming part of the national Yangtze River corridor.
Travel bookings are rising ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, with extended leave arrangements giving travelers more time for long-haul and outbound trips. Attention is on how scenic spots, hotels and travel agencies perform during the peak season. Interim reports from listed tourism companies show divergent results, and whether visitor growth translates into revenue and profit gains is a key gauge for the holiday period.
China Telecom has developed AI Flow, a self-developed network architecture that connects devices, edge nodes and the cloud to transmit tokens generated on computing platforms to remote terminals. Li Xuelong said the telecom industry is shifting from bit traffic operations to token value operations, as tokens become the smallest unit of information flow in the agent era. AI Flow aims to close the token transmission gap in mobile and weak-network environments, where bandwidth constraints currently limit enterprise AI deployments.
The 18th China International Seed Industry Expo and 23rd National Seed Information Exchange and Product Trading Conference opened in Hefei, Anhui Province. The event highlights whole-industry-chain coordination and showcases advances in seed-industry innovation, digital and smart seed technology, and enterprise development. It also interprets major policies including the 15th Five-Year Plan for the seed industry, releases information on seed enterprises, variety promotion, seed quality and supply and demand, and hosts targeted matchmaking sessions on artificial intelligence plus seed industry, seed-industry investment and deep processing.
China's innovative drug out-licensing accelerated in 2026, with total deal value surpassing 120 billion US dollars, a 36% year-on-year increase. Upfront payments exceeded 10 billion US dollars. Deal structures showed steady growth in average transaction size, while both the value and share of upfront payments rose, with large transactions concluded frequently.
Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen Hamilton are pressing artificial intelligence suppliers for new data guarantees and reducing or halting use of the most advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Palantir has persuaded Anthropic to agree to an irrevocable zero-data-retention guarantee across all of its models. For more sensitive business tasks, these companies are increasingly turning to internally developed AI models.
The global semiconductor industry generated record revenue of USD 425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 31.4% from the previous quarter. First-half revenue totaled USD 752 billion. Growth was driven by enterprise artificial intelligence hardware, rising high-performance computing demand and sustained demand for high-bandwidth memory. Memory integrated circuits accounted for more than half of quarterly revenue, with DRAM, NAND and NOR products posting record results. Non-memory semiconductors rose 10% quarter on quarter, and microprocessor revenue increased 16%.