Shanghai Gold Exchange gold T+D closed down 0.11% at 896.1 yuan/gram in the Oct. 16 evening session; silver T+D closed down 0.73% at 13,801.0 yuan/kg.

A team led by CAS academician Yu Dapeng at the Shenzhen International Quantum Research Institute (Tan Dian group), together with researchers from the University of Stuttgart, experimentally prepared and transmitted genuine multipartite entangled phonon states on a scalable two-dimensional hybrid quantum‑chip platform. The results were published in Science on the 16th (Beijing time).

China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has issued more than 150 national standards this year to support its blue-sky, clear-water and clean-soil campaign, with over 80% designated as mandatory. Areas covered include greenhouse gas emissions, Yellow River basin water-use quotas and green mine construction. SAMR says in excess of 100 of these standards have been implemented this year and it will continue to push formulation and implementation of green-development standards.