Obituary: Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who sought to repair Tokyo’s relations with Beijing and helped forge a 2008 framework for strategic cooperation, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 22. He was 90. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

China appointed Zhao Chenxin as acting governor of Hebei , installing a veteran economic-planning official as the northern province prepares for a Communist Party leadership reshuffle next month. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Catch up with Caixin’s top stories: - China cracks down on extortion by financial media accounts - Coal falls below half of China’s power output for first time - General-purpose AI could squeeze out smart driving specialists, industry exec warns caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics has warned investors of valuation risks after its shares surged more than 65% in seven days, driven by a J.P. Morgan upgrade and market optimism over physical AI caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

China’s broad-based ETFs drew 153.4 billion yuan in the week of Oct. 19–23 after a sharp stock-market correction. Analysts say the buying pattern points to large institutions, though a sustained recovery remains uncertain caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Hong Kong has approved its first retail tokenized funds for 24/7 secondary market trading. The move addresses a major liquidity bottleneck and cements the city’s push to become a premier global digital asset hub caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

China’s central bank has launched a new swap facility to provide direct liquidity to non-bank financial institutions. The tool aims to prevent mass redemptions from triggering a vicious cycle of forced selling in the bond market caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Hong Kong is preparing to issue its first ride-hailing platform licenses as early as late November. About 16,000 people have registered for the new driver test, and the government plans to cap initial ride-hailing vehicle permits at 10,000 caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Unpaid bills in China’s property sector are forcing construction suppliers to act as “debt relays,” accepting unsold homes from developers and passing them down the supply chain to pay their own creditors caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Technology investment unfolds over years. Markets reprice expectations in days. The recent tech sell-off highlights that mismatch caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

China is intensifying its crackdown on financial media accounts suspected of extorting businesses through negative coverage, with police in several provincial-level regions reporting arrests and investigations in recent weeks. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Opinion: China’s small investors need clear rules, credible enforcement and better investment choices. Protecting them means tackling corporate misconduct while building a deeper, more diverse capital market. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

China’s foreign exchange regulator has proposed cutting the risk conversion factor for eligible foreign-invested companies borrowing from overseas affiliates, freeing up cross-border borrowing capacity. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

China’s renewable-energy expansion has pushed coal-fired generation below half of the country’s electricity output for the first time, as Beijing moves to deepen climate-adaptation trials in 39 cities ahead of the U.N. climate summit next month. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday for talks with senior Chinese official Wang Huning, who called for expanding trade and travel through a new cross-border bridge, according to state media. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Autonomous driving companies face an existential threat from general-purpose AI models expanding into executing physical tasks and must urgently focus more on model development to survive, the head of a Chinese smart driving startup said. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Shares of Unitree Robotics surged to the daily trading limit on Friday as investors bet that rapid advances in general-purpose AI will overcome the company’s longstanding software weaknesses and reinforce its hardware dominance. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Washington has proposed expanding U.S. controls on outbound investment in China to biotechnology, potentially subjecting some joint drug-development ventures, offshore spinoffs and equity investments to national security review. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI launched its most powerful model yet, cutting prices while boosting performance in coding and agent tasks as domestic developers try to keep pace with a rapid series of upgrades from U.S. rivals. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…

China’s first regional electricity market began full operation Saturday, allowing power producers, retailers and large users across five southern regions to trade under a single market framework as Beijing pushes toward a nationwide power market. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-26/…