PBOC deputy governor Lu Lei said China has no need and no intention to devalue the yuan to secure trade competitiveness. He said upgrading of export structures, stronger corporate pricing power and improved FX risk management have sharply reduced China’s trade sensitivity to the exchange rate. Foreign-trade firms are using more FX hedges and the RMB’s share of trade settlement is rising, further lowering trade’s exchange-rate sensitivity.

港股恒生科技指数盘初快速下探跌超2%，蔚来汽车(09866.HK)跌近5%，阿里巴巴(09988.HK)、小鹏集团(09868.HK)、智谱(02513.HK)、均跌超3.5%，百度(09888.HK)、携程集团-S(09961.HK)跌超3%。

Iran’s consulate in Hyderabad posted on social media early on the 9th (local time) that "tomorrow morning our reverse engineers will hold an unboxing ceremony," attaching an image of a Diving-LD unmanned submersible matching one the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has displayed as a spoil, Xinhua reported. Reuters said the post appeared more a taunt than a technical claim, but the capture gives Iran an opportunity to examine and potentially reverse-engineer a U.S. unmanned submersible, an outcome the report said would embarrass the Pentagon.