PBOC's Pan said at the 2026 Financial Street Forum opening that the central bank will pilot measures to further facilitate foreign financial institutions buying and selling the RMB in China's onshore FX market. The PBOC plans to allow eight mainland and foreign offshore RMB clearing banks to conduct proprietary trading in the domestic interbank FX market, aligned with international market practice and trading conventions, to deepen offshore participation and promote onshore-offshore market integ

The National Energy Administration's comprehensive department has opened public comment on a draft National Unified Electricity Market Credit Evaluation Guideline. Under the draft, power trading institutions may grant A-rated counterparties facilitative treatment for market registration changes, allocation of agency volumes and provinces served, reduced verification frequency and relaxed continuous-registration checks, and acceptance of incomplete submissions. A-rated firms could, as permitted by rules, face lower performance-guarantee collateral requirements, access expanded forms of performance guarantees, be prioritized as minimum-guarantee retail suppliers, and receive selection/reward and recommendation incentives. B-rated firms would be processed under standard procedures with no incentive measures.

At the 2026 RISC-V China Summit, Alibaba DAMO Academy chief scientist Meng Jianyi said XuanTie chips have reached stable shipments exceeding 6.0 bln units. Citing Omida, he said global RISC-V processor shipments are forecast to grow about 30% p.a. to 2030 and reach roughly a 25% share of global processor shipments by 2030. DAMO also unveiled its first automotive-grade enhanced E908A RISC-V chip.