Houthi forces said on Sept 27 local time they shot down a Saudi "Kariyal" armed reconnaissance drone over Yemen's Hajjah province, saying the drone was conducting hostile action.

Today, the final day of the Mid-Autumn holiday, return travel remained short-distance and peaked across many regions. Transport authorities expect inbound flows to large and medium cities to concentrate from 16:00. Railways forecast sending 16.86 mln passengers today; stations maximized real-name verification and security lanes and opened priority fast-entry lanes for passengers within 15 minutes of departure. Civil aviation expects to carry about 2.10 mln passengers nationwide, with flows concentrated on Shanghai/Hangzhou–Guangzhou, Shanghai/Hangzhou–Beijing; Beijing–Chengdu and Beijing–Guangzhou; and Shenzhen–Hangzhou and Shenzhen–Chongqing routes. On roads, popular tourist cities and scenic areas saw short-term concentrated traffic; authorities increased capacity and coordinated road coach, urban transit, rail and aviation links. Water transport is expected to carry about 813k passengers; maritime authorities used predictive analytics to flag large-flow or weather-affected areas, issued immediate alerts, and dispatched enforcement personnel and patrol vessels.

Greek‑flagged bulk carrier Alpha Pride, loading about 69,000 tonnes of soybeans from Singapore, successfully berthed directly at Chaozhou Asia‑Pacific Fuel Storage and Public General Cargo Terminal (distribution base) on the 26th. This is the terminal’s first direct foreign‑trade soybean import since its August approval as the designated inbound grain supervision site for eastern Guangdong and western Fujian, enabling ocean‑direct grain arrivals at Chaozhou port.