A-share benchmarks strengthened in the afternoon; the Shanghai Composite rose more than 1% by the close, the Shenzhen Composite was up 0.67% and the ChiNext Index was up 0.79%.

GOOLSBEE: If fiscal policy is driving inflation, the Fed must take that into account.

Sept 21 — Sichuan provincial government and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Chengdu. The pact, covering the 15th Five-Year Plan period, aims to optimize CGN’s investment footprint in Sichuan, accelerate clean-energy project development and construction, expand high-end energy equipment manufacturing, and build nuclear medicine and other industrial clusters and supply chains to support Sichuan’s industrial modernization.