CATL said its weaker operating cash flow in Q3 reflected proactive adjustments to supplier payments from the third quarter to support upstream suppliers in the lithium‑battery supply chain facing cash pressure. Measures prioritized partners with R&D capability, innovation and cooperation on capacity expansion and included faster payment terms, advance payments and R&D funding. The company said the support may continue for some time and could cause a temporary hit to operating cash flow, but will

At the midday close, China's onshore main futures contracts were mostly lower. Container freight — Europe route — fell about 8%. Lithium carbonate slid over 4%, polysilicon dropped more than 3% and palladium fell nearly 3%. Caustic soda, fuel oil and LPG declined over 2%. On the upside, Shanghai nickel rose more than 3%, red dates, ethylene glycol (EG) and stainless steel gained over 2%, while Shanghai tin and asphalt were up nearly 2%.

Baidu said its Dazi platform is fully adapted to China’s Xinchuang (domestic IT) stack and is now available on Lenovo Kaitian’s Tianxi store, the Kylin software store and the UnionTech UOS app store. In partnership with Lenovo Kaitian, Baidu unveiled a full‑stack domestic general‑purpose intelligent‑agent AI workstation that integrates Lenovo Kaitian hardware, the Tianxi AIPro base and Baidu Dazi; it is configured for domestic compute, domestic operating systems, local models and agent software, supports Kylin OS and UnionTech UOS, and is compatible with Haiguang BW100 and Tianshu Zhixin Zhikai100 domestic GPUs.