China's People's Armed Police and Vietnam's Mobile Police will hold the joint "Cooperation-2026" counterterrorism exercise in Hanoi in early to mid-November. Drills will focus on bomb search-and-disposal (EOD), ground mobility operations and high-rise building breach tactics. This is the second exercise in the series, aimed at deepening bilateral counterterror cooperation and improving joint operational capability.

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said in a video address at the Greater Bay Area Science Forum on Nov. 1 that the Hetao Shenzhen‑Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone’s Hong Kong park now houses more than 120 tech companies and institutions. He said Hong Kong is leveraging the zone’s “one river, two banks” and “one zone, two parks” framework to coordinate with adjacent San Tin Technology City, aiming to create upstream‑midstream‑downstream synergies and integrate with Greater Bay Area industrial supply chains.

On Nov. 1 in Fuzhou, China's minister of housing and urban-rural development Ni Hong met Laos public works and transport minister Xivilay. The two ministries earlier signed an MOU, witnessed by both heads of state, to strengthen cooperation in housing and urban construction. They agreed to implement leaders' consensus and deepen ties on housing security, quality-housing construction, resilient cities, urban planning, and cooperation on new technologies, materials and products. Both sides also committed to enhanced professional exchanges and capacity-building.