IEA Executive Director BIROL said a further release of oil reserves is not an immediate priority.

SASAC Party secretary and director Cheng Fubo wrote in the journal New-type Industrialization that central SOEs must accelerate and upgrade deployments in strategic emerging and future industries. He said some sectors still lack competitive advantage and urged a "lead a batch, catch up a batch, cultivate a batch" approach to drive differentiated industrial layouts. SASAC wants to consolidate advantages in new energy and aerospace, step up efforts in artificial intelligence and new materials, and pre-emptively cultivate frontier tracks including quantum technology, nuclear fusion energy and biomanufacturing.

Sept. 29 — The China Electric Power Planning & Design Institute in Beijing published a set of reports including a first-time study on AI–energy mutual empowerment. The report says Chinese energy companies have accelerated deployment of sector-specific large AI models and had released more than 20 such models as of June 2026. Firms are converting real operational needs into R&D and product roadmaps by prioritizing high-value use cases, opening scenarios and running pilot demonstrations. Development is shifting from model-driven to scenario-driven, concentrating limited technology, data and compute on high-frequency, high-value, quantifiable and verifiable business processes.