中國證監會與香港證監會聯合公佈深化兩地市場務實合作與密切協同發展的新舉措，涵蓋上市融資、指數合作、期貨產品、交易所買賣基金（ETF）、金融機構國際化、綠色金融及專業資格便利化等多個範疇。

China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department of Urban Construction summoned provincial and municipal officials on gas-safety prevention, saying recent incidents exposed clear weaknesses. The ministry ordered tightened urban gas-safety rectification, accelerated rollout of home delivery for bottled LPG and on-cylinder safety inspections, and elimination of user-end hazards in cylinders, pipes, stoves and valves. It instructed maintaining special task forces, advancing full-chain "one-issue" gas-safety remediation, and building long-term gas-safety management mechanisms.

Hong Kong shares edged higher by midday; Hang Seng Index was up 0.04% and the Hang Seng Tech Index rose 0.74%. Large-cap tech led gains: Alibaba (09988.HK) jumped about 7% after launching the Qianwen Office public beta, Baidu (09888.HK) +4%, Tencent (00700.HK) +3%, JD (09618.HK) and Meituan (03690.HK) >1%; Xiaomi (01810.HK) fell about 4%. The State Administration for Market Regulation moved to curb 'involution', while photovoltaic stocks rallied—Concord New Energy (00182.HK) spiked as much as 17% intraday and Xunce (03317.HK) rallied nearly 13% post-results, leading AI application names higher. Memory semiconductor shares extended losses; mainland brokerages and nonferrous metal stocks declined.