The National Health Commission (NHC) is drafting a Childcare Services Law that has entered the National People’s Congress review process. The NHC is also revising the Blood Donation Law enacted more than 20 years ago to reflect current supply‑demand conditions. The commission said health‑sector legislation and the legal environment will be strengthened during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period.

At the open, China's most-active futures contracts were mostly lower: soda ash fell over 3%, caustic soda nearly 3%, synthetic rubber, Shanghai tin and alumina dropped more than 2%, coking coal nearly 2% and coke over 1%. Advances included Shanghai crude (SC) up over 8%, fuel oil up over 3%, the container-shipping Europe route up nearly 2%, and bitumen, ferrosilicon, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and platinum up more than 1%.

現貨黃金日內跌幅達1.00%，現報4304.52美元/盎司。