China's National Bureau of Statistics said headline CPI rose 0.2% MoM in September, 0.2ppt lower than August. Services prices flipped from +0.1% to -0.2% MoM, moving their CPI contribution from +0.04ppt to -0.08ppt. Following the end of summer, airfares, hotel accommodation and travel-agency fees fell 8.7%, 7.0% and 6.0% respectively, jointly cutting CPI MoM by about 0.12ppt. School reopenings lifted education services by 0.4%, adding ~0.03ppt. Industrial consumer-goods prices rose 0.7% MoM, a 0

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China today (Oct 13) released Qiusuo 4.0, the country’s first full‑chain AI evaluation benchmark covering compute, model algorithms, intelligent systems and products, industry applications and security governance. Qiusuo has run multiple pilot assessments across the AI supply chain and completed product validations in finance, power and oil & petrochemical scenarios, generating several industry implementation cases. The framework is organized into four modules — basic software and hardware, models and intelligent systems, security governance, and industry deployment — with 16 evaluation tools that cover bottom‑layer compute, hardware‑software co‑design, intelligent computing cloud, intelligent software engineering, large models, agents, embodied intelligence, intelligent terminals, AI security and industry scenario testing.