Trip.com Group co-founder and chairman Liang Jianzhang said on June 1 the company will invest 15 billion yuan in inbound-tourism branding and promotion over the next five years, targeting 200 million international arrivals. Spending will cover celebrity endorsements and offline marketing. Actor Jackie Chan was named Trip.com’s China tourism promotion ambassador; Chan said expanding visa-free access should encourage more visitors to experience China in person.

China's ChiNext Index fell 1% after earlier rally of more than 1%; Shanghai Composite up 0.05%, Shenzhen Composite Index down 0.57%.

May 28 — The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) held a special training course at Tsinghua University for central SOE personnel in the new-energy vehicle (NEV) sector; SASAC vice director Tan Zuojun attended. SASAC said the programme will accelerate organisational progress and urgent talent development aligned with NEV electrification, smartification and AI integration to support SOE transformation and upgrades. Training will focus on technical leaders' industry-direction judgment, core-technology innovation and industrial-ecosystem coordination, and on marketing leaders' user insight, digital marketing and overseas market expansion, with a particular push to cultivate AI+NEV specialists to enhance AI-defined vehicle capabilities and AI-enabled advanced manufacturing.