On Sept. 20 in Shanghai, Suzhou Ruixin Integrated Circuit Technology was named compute ecosystem partner to Qiyuan Robotics. The firms will collaborate on embodied-intelligence edge compute and deploy Ruixin's RISC‑V dataflow hardware AI chips in humanoid-robot applications — a tie-up industry contacts say signals deeper localization of compute across China’s embodied-intelligence supply chain.

Sept 20 — Qingdao Municipal Housing Provident Fund announced one-time withdrawals from provident fund accounts may be used for home renovations for households owning self-occupied property in the city. Withdrawal amounts are calculated at a renovation unit price of 1,500 yuan per sq m, capped at 200,000 yuan per household; each household may withdraw against only one self-occupied property. Qualified families purchasing a second property will be treated as first-home buyers for fund purposes. Loan quotas for new city residents and young borrowers will be calculated at 25 times their account balance.

Anhui Governor Wang Qingxian on Sept. 18-19 met foreign business delegations attending the 2026 World Manufacturing Conference, including Jack Perry, chairman of the UK 48 Group, and Carlos Magrinos, global chairman of the Global SMEs Alliance. Wang said Anhui will leverage its industrial base and innovation to pursue industry-focused opening, deepen integration of Anhui manufacturing into international division of labor and global markets, and establish regular communication mechanisms to strengthen resource and capability matching and expand industrial-chain and supply-chain cooperation.