On June 18 FAW Jiefang said its commercial vehicle overseas exports rose 67.9% YoY in the first five months, with Latin America sales up 103.4% YoY.

CHINA STATE PLANNER and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said the Implementation of the Employment‑First Strategy (15th Five‑Year Plan) sets nine priority tasks, led by an employment‑first macro orientation and stronger macro‑policy coordination to support jobs. The plan mandates actions to stabilise and expand employment and improve job quality, including adapting to AI to promote employment and entrepreneurship, coordinating industry and employment, stabilising employment in labor‑intensive sectors, expanding service‑sector employment capacity, and tapping emerging fields’ job‑absorption potential. It also calls for strengthened worker protections, an improved labour‑standards framework and labour‑relations consultation mechanisms, and guarantees of equal employment rights.

U.S. Vice President Vance said Iran's nuclear weapons program has been destroyed and no longer exists; if Iran decided tomorrow to build nuclear weapons, it would have no capability to do so.