China A-shares opened higher then swung; the Shanghai Composite tested the 3,600 level intraday before recovering and was down 0.1% at the midday close. Shenzhen Composite Index rose 0.14% and the ChiNext Index, which earlier gained more than 1%, closed up 0.1%. Turnover across the two exchanges exceeded 900 bln yuan and more than 3,700 stocks fell. Film chains and cultural-media names extended gains; robotics and grain-related stocks were active. Precious metals pulled back after earlier streng

China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and 20 organizations including Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi jointly released a Self-Regulatory Convention on agent development, calling for construction of interoperable agent infrastructure. Planned technical and standards work covers agent registration and resolution, capability description and discovery, intent understanding and translation, network routing and connectivity, resource scheduling and metering, and protocol compatibility and mutual recognition. The initiative aims to lower cross-domain discovery and connection costs to support inter-agent collaboration and accelerate agent deployment across industries. It emphasizes serving the real economy by developing low-barrier agent development and deployment tools, co-developing agents for real operational scenarios that create tangible value, embedding agents in existing production systems and business processes to create benchmark applications, and reducing deployment costs to boost sectoral quality and efficiency.

Nov 4 — China Gold Association said gold produced from domestic raw materials totaled 220.935 tonnes in the first nine months of 2026, down 50.847 tonnes YoY (-18.71%). Gold from imported raw materials totaled 127.055 tonnes, up 5.906 tonnes YoY (+4.87%). Combined output was 347.990 tonnes, down 44.941 tonnes YoY (-11.44%).