New Zealand Q3 employment -0.1% QoQ, below 0.4% expected; prior quarter revised to 0.4% from 0.5%.

On Nov. 3 Fujian’s first cross-domain heterogeneous-scheduling full-service token factory, the AI industry service platform Mindu Ruici, went live in Minqing County, Fuzhou. The platform aggregates 14 mainstream large models including DeepSeek and Kimi, supports multiple Chinese chips, and offers compute scheduling, model supply, application deployment, token settlement and financial support to enterprises and research institutes.

Deputy director Wang Ruomeng of CHINA STATE PLANNER's Innovation and High‑Tech Development Department said during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period China will leverage its complete industrial system, abundant application scenarios and strong engineering capability and prioritize application‑driven innovation. The ministry will use a “point, line, surface” approach: at the point level it will organize scenario‑based AI+ application projects, prioritizing hazardous, dirty, strenuous, complex and hard‑to‑operate scenarios such as mining, high‑altitude work and emergency rescue to address industry pain points and build demonstrator projects; at the line (industry) level it will continue developing national AI application pilot bases in manufacturing, energy, transport and healthcare, coordinate supply of compute, models and data, and accelerate standards and deployment to lower adoption barriers; at the surface (system) level it will improve the AI+ policy framework, refine and implement key‑industry plans and issue application‑scenario classification guidance to provide institutional support for AI+ expansion.