China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has opened a public consultation on the Guidelines for Construction of the National Humanoid Robot Industry Standard System (2026 edition).

Shanghai issued its 15th Five-Year Plan to accelerate new industrialization and build a modern industrial system. The plan calls for rapidly expanding intelligent computing capacity: develop high-performance, low-power, efficient AI chips; strengthen cluster networking and cloud services; and explore heterogeneous computing, optical computing and quantum AI architectures. It directs optimisation of computing infrastructure and construction of an urban compute network. The plan prioritises next‑generation large-model R&D—targeting architecture design and training optimisation—and promotes coordinated development of chips, large models and compute-cloud to build an indigenous ecosystem. It also accelerates embodied-intelligence technology maturation and a full-chain layout for intelligent robotics, improving key components and pushing real-world deployment across industrial manufacturing, logistics and assembly, retail, healthcare and domestic services.

Gaza Government Media Office said 189,000 aid trucks were expected to enter the Gaza Strip, but only 66,607 have entered so far.