A senior risk management executive at China Development Bank was taken away by police, sources say, marking the latest downfall in a sweeping anti-corruption crackdown at the country’s largest policy lender caixinglobal.com/2026-10-28/…

China’s central bank has launched a new swap facility to provide emergency liquidity to nonbank financial institutions, aiming to prevent systemic sell-offs in the bond market without bailing out reckless speculators caixinglobal.com/2026-10-28/…

China’s provincial economic growth sharply diverged in the first three quarters. While coastal hubs rode an AI-driven export wave, inland and consumption-reliant regions stumbled under industrial contractions and weak retail sales caixinglobal.com/2026-10-28/…

China’s domestic passenger car sales are projected to plummet 22% in 2026, falling below pandemic-era levels. Waning consumer confidence and reduced EV subsidies are chilling the world’s largest auto market, pushing carmakers to rely on surging exports caixinglobal.com/2026-10-28/…

French soccer star Kylian Mbappé has lost his Chinese endorsement deals and faces a widespread media blackout after making inappropriate remarks about China on a podcast caixinglobal.com/2026-10-28/…

Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on winning another term as Brazil’s president, saying Beijing wants to deepen strategic coordination and expand the countries’ partnership caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Profits at China’s major industrial companies rose 14.4% year-on-year in September, accelerating 10.2 percentage points from the month before, National Bureau of Statistics data showed. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

China’s population fell by 3.39 million in 2025 to 1.40489 billion, its largest annual decline since the country’s population began contracting in 2022. The three northeastern provinces posted the lowest birthrates caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

In Depth: China’s outdoor boom has brought young hikers and climbers to mountains in record numbers. It has also brought a surge in accidents, exposing gaps in training, professional standards and risk awareness. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-23/…

Today in Caixin’s Tech Brief: - #Apple’s debut foldable suffers hardware and software glitches - #Unitree warns of valuation risks after shares surge more than 65% - #Moonshot AI launches more powerful #Kimi model caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Audi is splitting its China operations between two JVs, its traditional four-ring brand to FAW and its new letter-logo electric marque to SAIC Motor, to quash internal competition as domestic EV brands reshape the country’s luxury car market. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

Two luxury homes in Hong Kong once owned by Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan were found to contain nearly 8,000 square feet of unauthorized construction, including excavated basement rooms and a swimming pool built beneath a private road. caixinglobal.com/2026-10-27/…

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/…