B[High-frequency data in the third quarter reflect the positive trend of China's economy] October 11th, according to the National Information Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, in the third quarter, a number of high-frequency data in the fields of consumption, foreign trade, investment and other fields showed steady improvement. The Chinese economy moved forward under pressure, maintaining a steady progress and a trend of improvement, and growth momentum continued to accumulate. Offline consumption big data shows that in the third quarter, the amount of various consumer payments increased by 2.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by 0.7 percentage points from the second quarter. In September, offline payment amount increased by 3.1% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by 0.5 percentage points from August, rising for three consecutive months. B[China's software business revenue exceeded 10 trillion yuan from January to August, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%] On October 8, it was learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that in the first eight months of this year, China's software business revenue exceeded 10 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%, and the total software industry profit increased by 1.3% year-on-year; software business exports were US$45.99 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%. The operation performance by field shows that the revenue of software products has grown steadily. In the first eight months, software product revenue increased by 6% year-on-year, accounting for 21.5% of the industry's revenue. Information technology service revenue continued to grow in the first eight months, accounting for 68.7% of the industry's revenue. Among them, cloud computing and big data services achieved a total revenue growth of 11.1% year-on-year, accounting for 17.3% of information technology service revenue. B[Offline consumption during the National Day holiday in Sichuan nearly 87 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%] According to the official Weibo account of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce on October 8, according to monitoring by the Department of Commerce, the province’s 550 key commercial and circulation enterprises achieved a cumulative sales (turnover) of 4.49 billion yuan during the National Day holiday, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%. According to UnionPay Business Big Data, a total of 250 million purchases were made offline in the province, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%. Experiential consumption grew significantly; the consumption amount was 86.96 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%. During the festival, the province's 160 new "Shuli Comfortable" consumption scenes attracted a total of more than 25 million passengers, driving consumption of more than 22 billion yuan. Sales of smart wearable devices more than doubled, and sales of outdoor sports equipment increased by more than 35% year-on-year. B[Shanghai’s all-factor tourism transaction amount during National Day was 29.822 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.52%] On October 7, reporters learned from the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that according to Shanghai tourism big data monitoring, Shanghai received 4.5302 million tourists on October 7, a year-on-year increase of 13.25%. From October 1 to 7, Shanghai received a total of 20.2054 million tourists. In addition, as of 24:00 on October 6, the average daily number of foreigners visiting Shanghai temporarily was 15,340, a year-on-year increase of 13.86%. The average room occupancy rate of Shanghai Shibin Hotel is 63%. It is also predicted that during the National Day, the total value of all-factor tourism transactions in Shanghai, including food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment, will be 29.822 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.52%. (Reporter Hu Haoqiong) B["Meteorological Data Management Measures" released and implemented on November 1] On September 29, the China Meteorological Administration released the "Meteorological Data Management Measures" today, which will be officially implemented on November 1. The "Measures" establish a series of rules and regulations in the field of meteorological data focusing on data supply, data circulation and utilization, data security and supervision and management. The "Measures" will implement the mission requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan for National Meteorological Development", focus on the construction of the Earth system data platform, establish an institutional framework for the convergence, management, and application of cross-layer Earth system data, promote the convergence and sharing of meteorological data, and promote the integration and application of multi-source data. Establish a public meteorological data authorization operation mechanism under the structural separation of meteorological data property rights, focusing on strengthening the protection of data rights and interests, providing clear legal basis for the implementation of public meteorological data rights confirmation and authorized operation, and filling the institutional gaps. At the same time, facing the integrated development direction of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data and the meteorological industry, all types of entities are encouraged to carry out research and construction of meteorological data development and utilization technologies and high-quality data sets, so that high-value data can be more secure and efficiently empower all walks of life. Meteorological data security assurance rules and regulations have been established to clarify key systems such as data circulation supervision platforms, security subject responsibilities in each link of data processing, important data catalogs, data export and security assessment, to prevent and resolve security risks. (CCTV News) B[Shandong issued smart agriculture implementation opinions, focusing on creating 300 high-level smart agriculture application scenarios] September 24th, Shandong Province recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Vigorously Developing Smart Agriculture", proposing in-depth implementation of the "artificial intelligence + agriculture" action, accelerating the all-round and full-chain promotion and application of modern information technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and robots in the agricultural and rural fields, and creating a national highland for the development of smart agriculture. By 2030, Shandong will build 80 digital agriculture development counties, focusing on creating 300 high-level smart agricultural application scenarios, and the informatization rate of agricultural production in the province will reach more than 60%. B[The head of the Department of Consumption Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce talks about China’s consumer market situation from January to August 2026] September 20th, according to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, from January to August, the total retail sales of social consumer goods and services increased by 2.5% year-on-year (the same below). The consumer market is stable and improving, and the consumption structure continues to be optimized.
First, commodity consumption grew steadily. From January to August, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 1.1%, and the retail sales of consumer goods other than automobiles increased by 2.7%. Basic daily necessities grew well, with grain, oil, food, clothing, and daily necessities growing by 6.8%, 5.1%, and 3.8% respectively. Some upgraded products grew faster, with communications equipment, cosmetics, and cultural office supplies growing by 16.3%, 6.1%, and 6.0% respectively. Affected by new energy substitution, petroleum products fell by 6.1%. Green, smart, and healthy products are growing rapidly. The Ministry of Commerce’s business big data shows that from January to August, sales of smart glasses on key platforms increased by 1.2 times, sales of ECG monitors increased by 75%, sales of action cameras increased by 26.9%, and sales of organic food increased by 7.4%.
Second, there is strong demand for service consumption. At present, residents' consumption needs are becoming increasingly diverse and diverse, and the consumption structure continues to be optimized, shifting from mainly commodity consumption to paying equal attention to both commodity consumption and service consumption. From January to August, retail sales of services increased by 4.9%, 3.9 percentage points faster than retail sales of goods. The summer vacation stimulated the vitality of the service consumption market, and the retail sales of tourism consulting and rental services, cultural, sports and leisure services maintained rapid growth.
The third is to release rural consumption potential. The vitality of the county consumer market continues to be released, and the urban and rural consumption structure continues to be optimized. From January to August, the retail sales of consumer goods in rural areas was 4.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.3%, and the growth rate was 1.3 percentage points faster than that of urban areas; the retail sales of consumer goods in counties and townships, including towns and rural areas, accounted for 39% of the total retail sales of consumer goods, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the same period last year. B[Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: The industrial upgrading of the construction industry during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period anchors the direction of intelligent, green, and integrated development] On September 18, Li Xiaolong, chief engineer of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a press conference of the State Council Information Office that the construction industry is at a key node for quality improvement and upgrading during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. In promoting industrial upgrading, we anchor the development direction of intelligence, greenness and integration, adhere to innovation-driven technological empowerment, and deeply integrate the now familiar big data, Internet of Things, and AI with the traditional construction industry. B[China's logistics supply chain finance is expected to maintain a high growth rate during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period] September 17th, the reporter learned from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing today that with the continuous release of policy dividends and the continuous optimization of the institutional environment, the scale of China's logistics supply chain finance market has grown steadily, and is expected to maintain a high growth rate during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. According to reports, during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the average annual compound growth rate of logistics supply chain finance is expected to remain in a relatively high range of 12% to 20%, showing a growth trend of high and stable growth, especially cross-border logistics financing, green logistics equipment financing and other subdivided scenarios will become the core of growth. At the policy level, many places have incorporated supply chain finance into implementation plans to reduce logistics costs for the whole society. Through fiscal interest discounts, core enterprise rights confirmation, rewards and subsidies and other fiscal coordination policies, financial resources are guided to accurately drip-feed the real economy, while adhering to the bottom line of trade authenticity and preventing idling funds and pseudo supply chain financial risks. In addition, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things, big data and other technologies are deeply integrated with logistics scenarios, solving pain points such as difficult supervision of movable assets and opaque information, providing a broad space for industry and financial innovation. (CCTV News) B[Guangzhou: Accelerate the layout of concept verification and pilot verification platforms for marine engineering, marine intelligent equipment, new marine materials, marine drugs, etc.] On September 14, the General Office of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Guangzhou's Marine Economy", which proposed to promote the efficient transformation of marine scientific and technological achievements into new productivity. Strengthen scientific and technological achievements transformation platform support and scientific and technological service collaboration. Accelerate the layout of concept verification and pilot verification platforms for marine engineering, marine intelligent equipment, new marine materials, marine drugs, etc., and promote the construction of a deep-sea natural gas hydrate development comprehensive test site, a smart ship pilot base, a marine smart equipment inspection and testing base, a national new material big data center (Greater Bay Area node), etc. Make good use of platforms such as the Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Science and Technology Innovation Trading Service Platform, South China Technology Transfer Center, International Advanced Technology Application Promotion Center (Greater Bay Area), Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Application Scenario Innovation Center, and "Guanghaihui" to plan a public service platform for the deep-sea science and technology industry and promote the openness and sharing of major scientific research infrastructure. Promote the convenient cross-border flow of scientific research materials with Hong Kong and Macao. Encourage the professional and market-oriented development of marine science and technology service institutions, strengthen the operation of scientific and technological achievements, and improve the public trading system of scientific and technological achievements. B[Director of the National Data Administration Liu Liehong presided over a symposium on embodied intelligence] On September 10, Liu Liehong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Data Administration, presided over a symposium on embodied intelligence. At the meeting, representatives from the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence, Nimbus Intelligence, JD.com, DeepinSmart, Shijingshan Humanoid Robot Data Training Center, Xinghai Chart, Independent Variables, Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and other companies expressed opinions and suggestions around "data-empowered embodied intelligence development". Xia Bing, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the National Data Administration, attended the meeting. Currently, the embodied intelligence industry is booming, showing data-driven characteristics, and the demand for high-quality, diverse, and large-scale data continues to grow. The National Data Administration will adhere to a problem orientation, grasp industry development trends, strengthen scientific layout and development guidance, promote the construction of embodied intelligence data standards in a timely manner, guide local data systems to carry out relevant work in an orderly manner, promote the healthy development of the industry, actively support enterprises to increase data investment, and better empower the development of embodied intelligence. The main responsible comrades of the Digital Technology and Infrastructure Construction Department of the National Data Administration attended the meeting. B[China Computing Power Platform achieves national integrated computing power coordination and monitoring] On September 12, reporters learned at the opening ceremony of the 2026 China Computing Power Conference that China Computing Power Platform achieved national integrated computing power coordination and monitoring, and the "one network, one game of chess, and integration" development pattern of China's computing power has basically taken shape. It is reported that at the 2025 China Computing Power Conference, the China Computing Power Platform completed access to the platform in 10 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Based on the experience of early pilot projects, the China Computing Power Platform has accelerated network expansion and promoted the integration of platforms in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country. Up to now, the operation layer of China's computing power platform's computing power supermarket has gathered more than 10,000 registered corporate users, settled more than 200 computing power service providers, launched more than 2,000 computing power products, and connected to more than 300 large models of various types. It provides computing power calling services to developers, and has accumulated billions of computing power monitoring big data. (Reporter Fu Jing) B[Three data exchanges selected as national data property registration institutions] On September 11, reporters learned from Shenzhen Data Exchange that today the national data property registration service system was launched for trial operation. Shenzhen Data Exchange was officially included in the directory of national data property registration institutions, and became the three approved national data property registration institutions together with Beijing International Big Data Exchange and Shanghai Data Exchange. It is reported that the implementation of a national unified data property rights registration system marks that China's data property rights system has entered a new stage of systematic and normalized implementation. The Shenzhen Data Exchange said that the next step will be to standardize the entire process of the five registration types: initial registration, change registration, transfer registration, renewal registration and cancellation registration, open up a full-chain service system for data registration, circulation, and assetization, and promote the standardized application of data property rights registration certificates in data circulation transactions, data resource entry into the table, financing guarantees, pricing and shareholding and other scenarios. (Reporter Fu Jing) B[Zhang Ke, Director of the National Medical Insurance Administration, is in Beijing to investigate medical security work] September 10th, Zhang Ke, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Medical Insurance Administration, is in Beijing to investigate medical security work. Zhang Ke pointed out that it is necessary to continue to improve the level of primary medical security services, make good use of medical insurance "door-to-door service fees" and "family hospital bed construction fees" and other price policies to encourage medical institutions to extend services to patients' families, so that the elderly and disabled patients can receive inclusive and convenient medical care. It is necessary to vigorously promote the centralized procurement of drugs into grassroots medical institutions, private medical institutions, and retail pharmacies to ensure that good drugs with high quality and low price can reach the people directly. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of a diversified and convenient payment system of face payment, one-code payment, mobile payment, and credit payment, covering all scenarios of outpatient and inpatient medical treatment, and adapting to the convenient payment needs of different people.
Zhang Ke emphasized that medical insurance departments at all levels across the country should support the large-scale application of major innovations in the pharmaceutical field based on functions such as medical insurance price establishment, medical insurance fund payment, and medical insurance big data management. In particular, the capital's medical insurance department must have forward-looking strategic thinking and continuously cultivate and expand emerging industries and future industries in medical insurance-related fields. On the basis of promoting the rational use of surgical robots, remote surgery, and automatic surgery, we must promote the standardized uploading and collection of data such as the medical insurance imaging cloud, the medical insurance pathology cloud, and the use of surgical robots, and make good use of the data while ensuring that the data is safe and does not leave the domain and is available and invisible to promote the development of new medical productivity. B[The “15th Five-Year Plan for National Fisheries Development” is issued] On September 8, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the “15th Five-Year Plan for National Fisheries Development”. By 2030, the fishery water area will remain stable, the vitality of business entities will continue to increase, the structure of the fishery industry will continue to be optimized, and the supply of high-quality aquatic products will increase significantly, achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity. The modernization level of fisheries facilities has been steadily improved, core technology and equipment have been accelerated, and big data and artificial intelligence have become more widely used. The aquatic life integrity index of the Yangtze River continues to improve, the decline of marine fishery resources has slowed, and the populations of rare species have increased steadily. Fishery governance capabilities have been significantly enhanced, and the safety production situation of marine fishing vessels has been stable. B[Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Promote the use of low-power chips and modular energy-saving equipment in communication base stations and computer rooms, and guide computing power facilities to adopt advanced technologies such as high-efficiency energy-saving equipment and liquid cooling] On September 7, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communications Industry". It is mentioned in it that we should accelerate the development of intelligent Internet networks and create a new generation of Internet infrastructure that integrates intelligent networks. Promote the intelligent upgrading of information infrastructure, build an intelligent network infrastructure with global awareness, independent decision-making, efficient and advanced, and enhance the intelligent capabilities of all aspects of infrastructure construction and operation. Promote the green transformation of information infrastructure, promote the use of low-power chips and modular energy-saving equipment in communication base stations and computer rooms, guide computing facilities to adopt advanced technologies such as high-efficiency energy-saving equipment and liquid cooling, and increase the use of clean energy. Accelerate the energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of existing information infrastructure, and increase the level of renewable energy consumption and waste heat resource recycling. Deepen the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, and explore the co-construction and sharing of satellite Internet, computing power, submarine cables and other facilities.
Promote the integrated development of information infrastructure and traditional infrastructure. Build industrial Internet infrastructure, continue to create an upgraded version of "5G + Industrial Internet", build high-level 5G factories, carry out the construction of industrial 5G independent private networks, promote the expansion and capacity upgrade of national top nodes for identification analysis, optimize the layout of secondary nodes, and promote the access of key platforms to the identification analysis system. Continue to strengthen the "professional, industry-based, collaborative" industrial Internet platform system and develop new business formats such as platform + large model, platform + digital twin. Strengthen the construction of the industrial Internet big data center system and build a number of regional and industry high-quality data sets. Continue to implement the "vehicle-road-cloud integration" pilot, promote cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) coverage in urban intersections, highway ramps and other areas according to local conditions, and improve 5G network coverage along urban roads and highways. Help promote the renewal and digital transformation of traditional infrastructure such as energy, water conservancy, and municipal administration. Strengthen the co-construction and sharing of information infrastructure and municipal, transportation, power and other facilities. B[Supreme Court: Using artificial intelligence to "impersonate celebrities to bring goods" constitutes fraud and supports punitive damages] On September 7, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Opinions on the Legal Trial of Cases Involving Artificial Intelligence Disputes" on September 7. In terms of protecting people's livelihood rights and interests, the "Opinions" mainly provide the following provisions: First, increase judicial protection of personal rights and interests. Currently, illegal activities such as AI face-changing, AI voice imitation, and "network unboxing" occur from time to time, and all sectors of society are highly concerned. To this end, the "Opinions" clearly regulate the accountability for the use of artificial intelligence to infringe on portrait rights, reputation rights, privacy rights, voice rights, etc., so as to give full play to the normative and leading functions of judicial judgment and promote artificial intelligence to be good. Second, protect personal information rights and interests in accordance with the law. Large-scale, high-quality training data is the cornerstone of the development of artificial intelligence technology.
In order to balance and take into account the protection of personal information rights and interests and the promotion of the development of the artificial intelligence industry, the "Opinions" are clearly for artificial intelligence model training in accordance with the Civil Code, the Personal Information Protection Law and other legal provisions. If the personal information that has been legally disclosed is processed within a reasonable range and the individual does not explicitly refuse, it will generally not be considered as infringement. However, if it has a significant impact on personal rights and interests, the individual's consent must be obtained in accordance with legal provisions. Third, we must regulate in accordance with the law the behaviors that infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, such as "big data killing" and "imitation of celebrities to bring goods". Recently, "big data killing of familiarity" caused by AI algorithms has been repeatedly exposed, and "counterfeiting celebrities to bring goods" has also attracted much attention. We cannot expect consumers to be "fierce-eyed". The law must show its sword in a timely manner to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. To this end, the "Opinions" clarify that for the same goods or services, if an operator uses algorithms to implement unreasonable differential treatment in terms of transaction prices and other trading conditions, thereby infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of others and causing damage, the People's Court shall determine that it bears corresponding tort liability in accordance with the law;
If artificial intelligence is used to "impersonate celebrities to bring goods" and it constitutes fraud, and consumers claim punitive damages, the people's court will support it in accordance with the law. B[The Supreme People's Court issued a document clarifying the adjudication rules for cases such as "AI face-changing voice onomatopoeia"] On September 7, the Supreme People's Court issued opinions on the legal trial of cases involving artificial intelligence disputes to strengthen judicial protection of civil rights and interests in the digital era and promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence. There are 24 opinions in 5 parts, which focus precisely on issues that are of concern to all walks of life, such as "AI face-changing onomatopoeia", "AI hallucination" infringement, "network unboxing", "big data familiarization", autonomous driving, AI model training, open source software, intellectual property protection, etc., and specifically clarify the substantive judgment and litigation procedure rules of cases involving artificial intelligence. B[Chengdu: Optimize policies such as computing power coupons, model coupons, and corpus coupons, and implement the "no application required" redemption mechanism] On September 7, the "Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the Chengdu Municipal People's Government on Optimizing the Science and Technology Innovation Ecosystem" were released. The opinions proposed to deepen the pilot construction of data annotation bases, rely on the national government big data platform to promote the sharing and exchange of high-quality data sets and corpora, and explore data authorization at different levels, fields, and scenarios. Build a Tianfu data center cluster, improve computing power trading standards and product pricing systems, and strengthen the supply of diversified computing power. Support artificial intelligence companies to develop industry vertical models and artificial intelligence-assisted research and development tools for key industrial chains, and improve the coverage of industrial artificial intelligence applications. Optimize policies such as computing power coupons, model coupons, and corpus coupons, and implement a “no need to apply and enjoy” payment mechanism to reduce the cost of acquiring computing resources. B[Beijing: Encourage housekeeping platforms and related companies to accelerate the research and development of new technologies and new products such as innovative elderly care robots and emotional companion robots] On September 4, six departments including the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce issued the "Implementation Plan for Further Improving the Quality of Home Care Services and Promoting the Healthy Development of the Housekeeping Service Industry." The implementation plan proposes to develop new scenarios for digital and intelligent housekeeping services. Accelerate the cultivation and development of housekeeping service platforms, use big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to carry out user profiling, precise services and tracking evaluations, and achieve accurate docking of supply and demand. Promote housekeeping enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, improve operational management and service efficiency, and better meet the needs of personalized and diversified housekeeping services. Housekeeping platforms and related enterprises are encouraged to accelerate the research and development of innovative elderly care robots, emotional companion robots, smart wearable devices, health monitoring equipment and other new technologies and new products, and explore new models of "human-machine collaboration" to better meet the care service needs of "one elder and one child".
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