China Securities Index Co. will launch the Smart-Select Shanghai State-Owned Capital Investment Pioneer Industry Index on Sept. 10, 2026. The index will comprise 50 Shanghai 'pioneer industry' listed companies from mainland China and Hong Kong with business exposure to integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence, serving as a diversified performance benchmark and an investible index to reflect constituent securities' overall performance.

Shaoguan city (Guangdong) published a public consultation draft outlining a plan to become a core compute hub for the Greater Bay Area. The plan calls for introducing and siting large and hyperscale data centers and intelligent-computing centers to meet local and GBA industrial digitalization needs and raise compute scale and tier; by 2030 it targets capacity equivalent to 1,000,000 standard racks and more than 750,000 PFLOPS of installed intelligent-computing capability.

The head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said the US's new round of sanctions on Iranian carriers is merely a continuation of a failed policy. He said the measures may raise carriers' operating costs and make it harder to meet some demand, but so far have not disrupted Iran's domestic flight network and will not be able to do so in future.