Three IPO subscriptions next week: Aug. 31 for Beijing Stock Exchange new issue Baimaike; Sept. 2 for STAR Market new issue Suiruan Technology; Sept. 3 for STAR Market new issue Xinnowei. Suiruan is the only unlisted member of the so-called domestic GPU quartet alongside Moore Threads, Muxi and Biren; once listed the four will all trade publicly. Moore Threads, Muxi and Biren rose 425.46%, 692.95% and 75.82% respectively on their first trading days. Suiruan’s prospectus shows a proposed issuance

China held the 2026 National Social Science Fund annual project review in Beijing; Politburo member and head of the Central Propaganda Department Li Shulei attended and spoke. The meeting ordered priority on systematic theoretical and philosophical study of the Party’s innovation theory and faster construction of an autonomous Chinese philosophy and social-science knowledge system to tackle major theoretical and practical issues of Chinese-style modernization. It called for systemic reform of the National Social Science Fund and research management—sharpening academic evaluation, promoting rigorous academic conduct, reorganising funding and institutions to focus on solving real problems—and urged creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture and wider deployment of digital‑intelligence tools to empower social-science research.

India's foreign ministry spokesman said the fourth flight carrying 11 tonnes of relief supplies has arrived in Nepal and the aid has been handed over.