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: Cover Story: China’s Power Market Enters a More Volatile Era as Prices Go Real Time
As spot trading spreads and renewable capacity surges, China’s move toward market-based electricity pricing is bringing sharper price swings, higher balancing costs and new strains for power retailers, generators and industrial users

: Hong Kong Debuts World’s First Offshore Chinese Sovereign Bond Futures
The five-year contract provides global investors a new tool to hedge risks as foreign holdings of onshore bonds surge

China Backs Hong Kong Firms for Mainland Listings

CSRC plans to expand cross-border financing channels to deepen financial integration

: China’s New Economy Engine Cools on Waning Capital, Tech Investments
High value-added industries accounted for 33.8% of total economic inputs in July, a Caixin index shows

U.S. Adds 43 Chinese Firms to Forced Labor Blacklist

The change is the single largest expansion of the list, which Washington uses to stop goods made by companies accused of human rights abuses from being imported into the U.S.

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In Depth: Thai Buddhist Amulets Draw China’s Anxious Youth — and Laundering Networks

Cover Story: China’s AI-Driven Robotics Boom Faces IPO Reality Check

Analysis: China Likely to Forgo Major Stimulus as Growth Target Remains in Reach

Caixin Explains: How China Plans to Pay for Its Urban Renewal Push

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: Business Brief (Aug. 3): Chinese AI Models Sweep Top Five in Global API Calls
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: Opinion: How China’s Fields Medal Triumph Offers a Beacon for Its Scientific Future
To stay globally competitive, the country must foster an environment that respects knowledge, rewards international collaboration, and plays the long game in foundational research
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: Commentary: Moving Beyond Nostalgia for ‘Old Hong Kong’
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: CX Daily: China Shuts Multibillion-Dollar Loophole to Offshore Markets
Regulators have ordered brokerages to halt new cross-border swaps for private funds, closing a channel that raised concerns about leverage
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: Weekend Long Read: The 100-Million-Tree Bet to Halt China’s Desert
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: Former State Grid Chairman Comes Under Anti-Graft Investigation
China’s top disciplinary authorities announced a probe into Xin Baoan, extending scrutiny of the state-owned energy sector
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: Beijing Clears Eight New Reactors as China Accelerates Nuclear Buildout
Most of the newly approved units will use the domestically developed Hualong One design as Beijing pushes to expand operating nuclear capacity to 110 million kilowatts by 2030
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: DeepSeek Releases Official V4-Flash Model as China’s AI Race Intensifies
Startup says the updated model delivers stronger agent capabilities and better benchmark results, while maintaining aggressive pricing amid mounting competition
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: The Week Ahead (Aug. 3-9): Hong Kong Launches T-Bond Futures, SpaceX Lock-Up Expires
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: China’s Elderly Population Tops 323 Million as Aging Pressures Mount
New official data show China added more than 100 million people aged 60 and older in a decade, intensifying strains on pensions, eldercare services and the shrinking workforce
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: Xiaomi Unveils New Extended-Range EVs Amid Cooling Market
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: Tech Brief (July 31): ByteDance Reshuffles Workplace Tool Feishu in AI Push
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: Business Brief (July 31): GPU Prices Spike as AI Demand Strains Supply
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: ByteDance, MiniMax Roll Out Upgraded AI-Video Models
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: U.S. Firms to Shrink Asset Freeze in Insider Trading Suit Over China Regulatory Leak
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: Nature Retracts Two Papers by Chinese Scientists Following Blogger’s Fraud Crusade
Nature pulling the studies follows institutional probes that led to the dismissal of two university deans for severe academic misconduct
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