Iranian Navy Admiral Siyari said Iran's large reservoir of public support, combined with popular backing for the armed forces, is the state's primary source of authority and the key to thwarting adversaries' objectives.

On July 8 the Shenzhen municipal party committee reviewed 1H citywide industrial investment and ordered accelerated advancement of key projects. The committee urged prioritizing the real economy and manufacturing to stabilize industrial-investment growth and lay a foundation for the 15th Five-Year Plan and longer-term development. It called on authorities to seize the window from rapid AI and other frontier-technology iteration and faster market/demand formation by intensifying industry research, project planning and investment in core and frontier areas to forge new high-quality growth drivers. The city also directed exploration of innovative investment models, fuller use of financial tools, leveraging state capital and SOEs as resource-integration hubs, and measures to attract social/private capital into major projects to speed cultivation of new productive capacity.

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