At the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s 2026 Global Investors Conference on May 29, HKEX CEO Chen Yiting said international institutional investors cite two main attractions to Chinese assets: low correlation with US assets, which supports portfolio diversification; and China’s economic resilience and growth potential—particularly leadership in AI, new energy, energy storage and biotech—creating material investment opportunities.

Guangzhou’s 15th Five-Year Plan prioritizes expanding the semiconductor and integrated circuit sector, targeting breakthroughs in specialty-process chip manufacturing, automotive-grade chip design, advanced packaging and third-generation semiconductors. The plan aims to establish a new high-end digital chip track and position Guangzhou as a national integrated circuit industry “third pole” core base. It calls for accelerating major projects including Yuexin Phase IV, backing Huangpu to attract high-end chip design, critical materials and equipment suppliers, and advanced packaging/testing firms to develop an analog chip supply chain; supporting Zengcheng to focus on intelligent sensors and specialty-process chip manufacturing; and supporting Nansha to build a wide-bandgap semiconductor industry cluster.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it will offer ANTHROPIC's latest OPUS model Claude Opus 4.8 on Amazon Bedrock and the AWS Claude platform.