GCL Group chairman Zhu Gongshan, also chair of the Global Green Energy Council, told the 2026 World Power Battery Conference that lithium battery growth dynamics have shifted: electric vehicles remain the baseline while new demand is emerging from energy storage, backup power for AI/data-center compute, embodied robots, eVTOLs, electric vessels and space applications. He said batteries are evolving into cross-sector universal energy carriers and that scenario proliferation, technology iteration,

BOC Governor MACKLEM said inf data will guide policy decisions.

Shanghai Housing and Urban‑Rural Construction Commission issued its 15th Five‑Year plan, accelerating urban village (chengzhongcun) renovations: by end‑2026 fully launch overall urban‑village reconstruction projects and complete remediation/upgrades; by end‑2027 complete preparatory work for those overall projects; advance planning‑led pilot implementations in parallel. Speed up renovation of old housing stocks: target to complete the remaining ~20,000 sqm of small‑beam, thin‑slab houses by end‑2026 and to largely finish renovation of non‑standard employee housing by end‑2030; promote renewal of non‑standard lane houses, apartments and garden residences.