Border inspection station data showed that in the first three days of the National Day holiday passenger traffic via the Zhuhai road port of the Hong Kong‑Zhuhai‑Macao Bridge exceeded 310,000 and vehicle traffic exceeded 70,000. As the sole designated channel for Hong Kong and Macao cars going north and Guangdong cars going south, cross‑border vehicle flows across the bridge remained elevated.

Shanghai Pudong International Airport recorded over 319,000 entries and exits from Oct. 1–3, with passenger and cargo flights exceeding 2,100. Foreign arrivals via Pudong totaled about 43,000, up roughly 23.5% YoY.

SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son, long a prominent AI proponent, warned of safety risks as machine capabilities accelerate and urged international cooperation. Speaking alongside White House tech policy adviser Michael Kratsios at a Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, Son said the exponential rise in AI makes it necessary for countries to build mutual trust to jointly steer the technology, adding “we no longer have the luxury of humans fighting each other.” He urged cooperation to control greater threats from powerful AI models and warned that superintelligence in the hands of bad actors could be “super dangerous.” Son’s unusually cautious tone follows mounting concern after recent safety glitches in AI models.