A-share grain and seed stocks rallied; Nongfa Seed hit limit-up, Qiule Seed rose over 15%, and Shennong Seed, Kangnong Seed and Denghai Seed also advanced.

The 2026 Green Compute (AI) Conference will be held in Hohhot on Aug. 22. Organizers will publish the Green Compute Development Research Report (2026) and an East Data West Compute hub-node Green Compute Index report, and will sign a batch of major industrial projects totaling at the tens-of-billions-of-yuan level. Participants named include ByteDance, CICC Data, GCL Energy Technology, Cambricon, Shanghai Beigao High-tech and CATL; planned cooperation covers green smart compute centers, token-generation facilities, and compute-electricity equipment manufacturing. The event aims to expand the Horinger data center cluster and scale China’s green compute industry.

Former Japan finance ministry official and ex-Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao said on Monday the Bank of Japan should raise rates at every policy meeting, targeting a policy rate above 2% to narrow the Japan–US yield gap and ease yen weakness. He added that even with a 1% policy rate Japan’s real rate remains negative while peers’ real rates are positive, and that with inflation around 2% a policy rate of about 2.25–2.5% would not be unusual.