PBOC said under the Memorandum between the People's Bank of China and the Deutsche Bundesbank it has authorized Deutsche Bank AG to serve as the renminbi clearing bank in Frankfurt.

ISNA reported Iran convened the Economic Relations Coordination Council to discuss the role of northern ports in securing supplies of essential commodities.

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (academician Guo Guangcan and Prof. Han Zhengfu) with the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (Zhang Wenfu) published a paper proposing and demonstrating a microcavity-based optical-soliton, large-scale integrated measurement-device-independent (MDI) quantum key distribution (QKD) network scheme, providing a technical path toward scalable, high-security practical deployment of quantum communication networks.