Huatai-PineBridge's China-Korea semiconductor ETF rose more than 6%, with turnover exceeding 11.4 bln yuan.

Guangzhou will deepen a targeted consumption-boosting campaign, focusing on the summer holiday and the Sept–Oct peak spending season to unlock domestic demand. The city will expand diversified international markets, promote exports of “New Three Items” specialty products and imports of bulk commodities, and cultivate new growth points. Authorities will accelerate industrial restructuring—scaling up new-quality productive capacity, optimizing industrial layout, upgrading traditional trade and commerce, and prioritizing AI, integrated circuits (ICs), new energy storage and the low‑altitude economy to build high‑tech, high‑growth, large‑scale industrial pillars and a modern Guangzhou‑characteristic industrial system.

China Coast Guard spokesman Jiang Lue said on the morning of July 21 that, on humanitarian grounds, China allowed the Philippine side to transfer wounded by shipborne small boat from the grounded No.57 vessel at Ren'ai Reef to Philippine Coast Guard vessel 9702. The Coast Guard said it queried and verified the Philippine vessel and supervised the entire transfer, and will continue law-enforcement operations at Ren'ai Reef and adjacent waters to safeguard China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights.