Medtronic's global senior vice president and Greater China president Gu Yushao said China is becoming a major source of medical innovation and is on track to become the world’s largest medical device market. He said medtech innovation increasingly requires AI across brain‑machine interfaces, robotics and imaging, and Medtronic is partnering with Chinese AI firms. Medtronic plans to open its first digital medical innovation hub in Beijing by end‑2025 to connect industry, research and clinical par

Apple (AAPL.O) said it has never seen component prices rise so quickly.

China State Planner and the National Energy Administration’s 15th Five-Year plan calls for stepped-up oil and gas exploration investment, prioritizing deep onshore, deepwater, unconventional and mature fields and making offshore and unconventional supplies the backbone of stable crude output. The plan sets a crude production target of about 200 million tonnes per year and calls for steady growth in natural gas output. It mandates accelerated trunk-pipeline and interconnection projects, targeting primary gas transmission capacity of 500 bcm/year by 2030, development of provincial networks off the national trunk grid, and coordinated optimization of refinery, port and crude/refined-product pipeline layouts and flows.