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Key Events of Going Global

Ministry of Commerce: China-US economic and trade teams are maintaining close exchanges on issues including tariff reduction

The Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference on the 17th. He Yadong, the press spokesperson, said when answering questions about the latest progress of the consultation on the arrangement of mutual tariff reduction of 30 billion US dollars between China and the US, that at present, the economic and trade teams of the two sides are maintaining close exchanges on relevant issues, and relevant progress will be released in due course later. (Xinhua News Agency)

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: Support enterprises to go global, and increase policy support and service guarantee for "going global" enterprises

Li Xiaolong, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, stated at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that Chinese construction is now well-known overseas and is a gold-lettered signboard of the construction industry. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will support enterprises to go global, give full play to the brand and technical advantages of Chinese construction, strengthen international exchanges and cooperation in the construction field, especially increase policy support and service guarantee for "going global" enterprises, and at the same time promote the business scope of foreign engineering contracting enterprises to shift to high value-added links, so as to truly build a number of influential demonstration engineering projects. (Securities Times)

International "Circle of Friends" Expands Again! Qiantang District Delegation Travels to New Delhi, India to Attend the 2026 BRICS Business Forum

The 2026 BRICS Business Forum was held in New Delhi, the capital of India, on September 11. The delegation from Qiantang District, Hangzhou, rushed to the event, and conducted in-depth local inspections from September 10 to 13, carrying out a series of exchange activities focusing on BRICS economic and trade cooperation, special economic zone exchanges, digital trade and industrial cooperation. (Qiantang Commerce)

New Market Observation

The First Batch of 14 Cross-border "Open Bidding for Top Talents" AI Application Scenarios for ASEAN Released

On September 16, the first batch of 14 cross-border "Open Bidding for Top Talents" artificial intelligence application scenarios for ASEAN was released at the 2026 International Technology Transfer and Innovation Cooperation Conference for ASEAN, covering 7 ASEAN countries including Brunei, Indonesia and Laos. This project is coordinated by Guangxi to sort out the demands of ASEAN application scenarios and release the bidding list, while gathering advanced domestic technologies for integrated optimization in Guangxi, and then implementing applications in ASEAN, forming an innovative application chain of "R&D in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou — Integration in Guangxi — Application in ASEAN". (Jiemian News)

India Plans to Impose Fees on "Scan-to-Pay"

The world's largest retail fast payment system by transaction volume is facing major changes. According to a report by New Delhi Television on the 15th, India plans to charge fees for transactions over 2000 Indian rupees (100 Indian rupees are approximately equal to 7 RMB) paid to merchants through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), ending the era of zero-cost payments that has lasted for many years. As one of the key projects in India's digital public infrastructure sector, UPI has achieved remarkable development since its launch in 2016, with annual transaction volume exceeding 240 billion. (Sina Finance)

South Korea Faces Severe Shortage of Semiconductor Components and Extended Delivery Cycles, Some Equipment Manufacturers May Wait for 40 Months

According to South Korean technology media ETNEWS, industry insiders revealed on the 16th that the delivery cycle of key components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment has more than doubled, and the industry is facing the dilemma of supply shortage. An executive from a company that produces deposition equipment said: "In the past, we could receive the required components for deposition equipment four months after placing an order, but recently, the delivery time has been extended to 10 months." Another semiconductor laser processing equipment manufacturer procures key components from Japan, and the delivery period may be as long as 40 months. (CLS.cn)

Company Updates

Tesla Accelerates Mass Production of Robots and Launches a New Round of Factory Audits for Its Chinese Supply Chain

Tesla's relevant team arrived in Ningbo on September 16, and launched a new round of mass production factory audits for its robot business on September 17. Previous industry chain news said that Tesla will launch a new round of factory audits in September, with the goal of cooperating to review the exclusivity and consistency of Optimus robot mass production, including helping enterprises debug equipment and migrating the manufacturing capabilities of US factories. It is understood that this round of factory audits by Tesla will substantially promote the mass production of Optimus, and relevant orders have been issued to supply chain enterprises. According to the plan, Tesla will roll out about 50,000 Optimus robots in 2026 and deploy them to Tesla's super factories around the world. However, ordinary consumers still have no access to purchase the Optimus humanoid robot. (21 Caijing)

Amazon Deploys Same-Day Delivery Business in the US, Investing Tens of Billions of Dollars to Expand Its Outlets by More Than Ten Times

Amazon is planning an unprecedented expansion plan for same-day delivery business, which may reshape the US retail pattern and directly challenge Walmart's biggest competitive advantage in the field of daily consumer goods. From Amazon's internal planning documents, it is learned that the project codenamed "Project Mercury" aims to expand Amazon's same-day delivery fulfillment outlets to more than 1,000 by 2031, which is more than ten times the current scale of about 85 sites. The project will cost tens of billions of dollars and is expected to change the consumption pattern of Americans purchasing daily necessities such as fresh food, paper towels and cough medicine. (Sina Finance)

Borui Auto Electronics Has Won the Project Appointment for Overseas Models of Domestic New Energy Vehicle Enterprises

Borui Auto Electronics announced on September 14 that the company has received an official project appointment notice from a leading domestic high-end new energy vehicle OEM, and for the first time has become the supplier of the new generation of overseas models of the customer's flagship brand. The company will be responsible for the R&D and mass production delivery of high-end intelligent cockpit domain controller and AI interaction system based on the Qualcomm 8397 platform. Relevant projects cover Europe, Central and South America, Canada, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Africa and Oceania and other markets. (Jiemian News)

Industry Trends

"Shanghai-style" Mooncakes Go Global for Mid-Autumn Festival

Reporters from Xinhua News Agency learned from Shanghai Customs that as the traditional Chinese festival Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the export of mooncakes has entered a peak period. As of mid-September, Shanghai Customs has supervised the export of 40.6 tons of mooncakes with a value of 3.729 million RMB, including many mooncakes with rich "Shanghai-style" flavors such as wine aroma, dark chocolate lava, cheese lychee rose, Earl Grey tea tiramisu, low-sugar osmanthus oolong. It is introduced that these "Shanghai-style" mooncakes produced in Shanghai combine Chinese and Western flavors with outstanding innovation and inclusiveness, and have now been exported to many countries and regions such as the United States, Australia, Malaysia. (Xinhua News Agency)

Shenzhen 3D Printers Dominate Nearly 90% of the Global Market

In a 3D printing experience store in Nanshan, Shenzhen, the reporter saw that a constant stream of people came to check in. The machine is connected to a model community with nearly 3 million ready-made designs, you can print any design you like without modeling by yourself. An object can be obtained in 2 to 5 hours according to its size and complexity. While domestic consumers are still "trying for the first time", overseas, consumer-grade 3D printers made in Shenzhen have become a powerful tool for many makers to create DIY works. Relying on rapidly iterating technologies, 3D printers made in Shenzhen have captured nearly 90% of the global market share. Data from Shenzhen Customs shows that from January to July, the export value of Shenzhen 3D printers reached 9.55 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 124.8%, and the products are sold to more than 120 countries and regions around the world. (CCTV Finance)

CITIC Securities: Global Semiconductor Equipment Components Are Experiencing a Historically Rare Full-chain Price Hike Wave

The research report of CITIC Securities believes that global semiconductor equipment components are experiencing a historically rare full-chain price hike wave. The pricing power in the semiconductor industry chain is structurally shifting from the chip terminal to the equipment and components links. Component enterprises are small in scale with a high proportion of fixed costs, so price hikes are directly converted into profits; at the same time, the production line expansion cycle is as long as 12-18 months, with the worst supply elasticity. Attention should be paid to the domestic substitution demand and price hike logic brought by the extended delivery period of overseas suppliers of valves and pipelines, ceramic parts, RF power supplies, GAS BOX and other products. (Jiemian News)

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