As of July 24, the Shanghai Shipping Exchange reported the SCFI (Shanghai export container freight composite index) at 3,062.95, down 17.36 points from the prior period. The CCFI (China export container freight composite index) was 1,901.27, down 0.5% from the prior period.

Zhejiang provincial leadership issued guidance to build a top-tier innovation ecosystem and more competitive business environment, prioritizing high-quality tech-finance development. Measures include accelerating a tech-finance system aligned with innovation, strengthening full life‑cycle financing for sci‑tech firms, and promoting an innovation scoring system to steer financial resources toward these companies. Launch a 'patient capital' initiative, marketize operation of social‑security sci‑tech funds, and boost the leverage role of industrial funds to channel capital earlier, in smaller tickets, for longer tenors and into hard‑tech. Deepen the Phoenix Action to support sci‑tech firm listings and M&A. Use re‑lending and other monetary policy tools, establish dedicated bank sci‑tech lending mechanisms, expand tech‑innovation bond issuance, and improve tech‑finance risk‑sharing. Targets: by 2027 tech loans should keep steady growth and tech insurance coverage exceed 700 billion yuan; by 2030 Zhejiang aims to rank among the country’s leaders in tech‑innovation bond issuance.

South Korea's KOSPI fell as much as 2.00% intraday.