Yushu Technology debuted on the STAR Market, surging 629.44% at the open from an IPO price of CNY150.80 per share; an online one-lot allocation sold at the open would net about CNY474,600. Meituan is the largest external shareholder in Yushu, holding roughly 35.12 million shares via Hanhai Information, Chengdu Longzhu and Galaxy Z, with unrealized gains exceeding CNY33.3bn.

Russia's ambassador to Sweden Sergey Belyayev told RIA on the 18th that Sweden has detained multiple cargo ships serving Russian interests since late 2025, calling the actions politically motivated and in breach of international maritime law. He said Sweden has relied on allegations the vessels flew false flags but has produced no substantive charges and that the detentions are intended to pressure commercial operators involved in Russia's foreign trade. AFP reported earlier this month that Swedish court documents show a previously detained freighter will be handed over to Ukraine, accused of transporting grain from Russian-occupied areas.

Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Center said it released what it calls the world's first fully autonomous (no remote control) task-execution system for complex language instruction sets using an extended field-of-view vision. The center said the system — for which an invention patent has been granted — addresses robots' prior inability to autonomously plan and decide in unfamiliar environments and unifies a world model, VLA and other contemporary techniques. In a demonstration video the center's ultra-lightweight humanoid Gongga-1 autonomously executed a single complex command, completing three sequential sub-tasks without remote control.