State Council Information Office will hold a themed press briefing on 22 July 2026 at 10:00. Customs director Sun Meijun will outline measures to modernize customs operations to support a high-quality start to the 15th Five-Year Plan and will take questions.

Siemens Energy shares fell 4% in early trade in Frankfurt.

On July 16 in Shanghai, representatives of 29 countries signed the founding agreement for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization; UN Secretary‑General Guterres and other national and international officials attended. Organizers framed the initiative as an alternative to a concentrated, closed‑source technology order—characterized by closed models, charged APIs, constrained compute and locked ecosystems—and said China seeks to explore a multilateral, open‑source, full‑factor approach to building the AI ecosystem.