FTSE China A50 index futures opened 0.14% higher.

At the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference, Guo Shougang, director of the Equipment Industry Division at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said Changan and BAIC received conditional market-access approvals for L3 autonomous driving products in Dec 2025 and a second round of pilot approvals is now underway. MIIT will step up on‑road operation monitoring and safety oversight and compile lessons to support safe operation of intelligent connected vehicles.

PHP development team disclosed two severe security vulnerabilities Tuesday and released a patched version Wednesday after reports of active exploitation, urging users to update immediately. Operators preemptively took numerous sites offline to protect systems, including the Port of Rotterdam website, Dutch government portal Overheid.nl, the Dutch football association, five major Dutch party sites and several hospital websites. PHP underpins a large share of the web (W3Techs: ~75% of sites with identifiable server-side languages use PHP; ~43% of sites run on WordPress), expanding the attack surface for e-government portals, CMS-driven media, e-commerce platforms and hosted services and raising the risk of short-term online service disruptions.