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CXMT IPO: Market Logic and Industry Shifts Behind a RMB 579.2 Billion (approx. USD 85.4 billion) Valuation

July 21, 2026

On July 16, 2026, ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc. (CXMT) officially launched its online and offline subscription on the STAR Market. The offering price was RMB 8.66 per share (approx. USD 1.28), corresponding to a market capitalization of about RMB 579.2…

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Solid Tumor CAR-T: China’s 0-to-1 Breakthrough

July 20, 2026

In June 2026, CARsgen Therapeutics announced that its CLDN18.2-targeting autologous CAR-T product, satricabtagene autoleucel (Saikaize®), received conditional approval from the NMPA for advanced gastric cancer patients who have failed at least second-line therapy, priced at RMB 990,000 per dose (approximately…

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Robotaxi Enters the Fast Lane: Baidu’s Apollo Go, Pony.ai, and WeRide Race Toward Commercialization

July 14, 2026

In the first half of 2026, China’s Robotaxi (autonomous taxi) industry crossed a critical threshold from “pilot testing” to “scaled commercialization.” Baidu’s Apollo Go announced that its cumulative service volume had surpassed 100 million rides; Pony.ai and WeRide both accelerated…

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Alibaba’s Qwen App Goes Live: Can It Challenge ByteDance’s Doubao and DeepSeek?

July 10, 2026

In late June 2026, Alibaba officially launched the standalone Qwen App, formally entering the consumer-facing (C-end) AI assistant market. This move marks Alibaba’s decision to no longer rely solely on the open-source model ecosystem and cloud services (B-end), but to…

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Robots Cleaning Toilets: Not Science Fiction, but a Real Deployment Already Underway in China 2026

July 7, 2026

When people imagine humanoid robots, the picture is usually dancing on a stage or performing martial arts moves in a demonstration. But the most valuable deployment scenario may in fact be one that people are least willing to talk about…

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China’s Domestic Large Model API Calls Surpass the United States: Silicon Valley Developers Are “Genuinely Impressed”

July 3, 2026

The latest data from OpenRouter shows that Chinese open-source weight models now account for 60% of usage in the global developer ecosystem. Models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM are rewriting the rules of global AI competition. Behind this lies…

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The Asian Industrial Supercycle Has Already Begun… “It’s Not Where You Produce, But Which Ecosystem You’re Connected To”

July 3, 2026

(Sourced from BCC Global Media / MoneyToday）Original Article The question global companies are asking about Asia is shifting. If the old question was “Should we enter the Asian market?”, the more pressing question now is “Are we prepared to compete…

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WeChat Carries the Banner Into All-Out AI War, Xiaowei Goes Live: A Battle for the Entry Point of 1.4 Billion People

June 30, 2026

In June 2026, news that WeChat’s embedded AI agent “Xiaowei” had entered gray-scale testing immediately ignited capital market enthusiasm — Tencent Holdings surged 10.46% in a single day, with market capitalization increasing overnight by more than HKD 400 billion (approximately…

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Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces: China Fires the First Shot

June 23, 2026

In June 2026, Neuracle completed the world’s first commercial sale of an invasive BCI; three months earlier, Xiangya Hospital used the IMIE system to allow a blind person to “see” characters again. China’s BCI sector is taking the lead simultaneously…

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[CEIBS] The World Cup Paradox: How China can win global influence without winning on the pitch

原创 CEIBS CEIBS Original Article 2026年6月12日 10:00 2人 As the 2026 FIFA World Cup—hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico—approaches, global attention is once again turning to the intersection of sport, economics, and geopolitics. Beyond the excitement on the…