Solar overtakes coal in China's power capacity.
Today's events
Solar tops coal.
Solar reached 1.286 billion kilowatts of installed capacity by end-July, passing coal's 1.285 billion and becoming China's largest power source for the first time.1Sep 4 · Energy Admin.Countermeasures on Washington.
China's commerce ministry tightened drone export controls, blacklisted six American entities, and opened its first foreign-trade national-security investigation, citing U.S. telecom and homeland-security restrictions.2Sep 3 · CommerceFive-Year Plan projects.
China's central planning agency reviewed progress on 109 major projects in the new Five-Year Plan and pressed departments to start a fresh batch of construction.3Sep 4 · Planning Comm.Bishkek summit.
Xi told the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's 25th-anniversary summit that the bloc must stay non-aligned and target no third party, and offered 100 joint science projects.4Sep 1 · CommerceHimalayan disaster.
A third emergency aid shipment left for Nepal after a glacier collapse on the Tibet border; nearly 100 Chinese citizens remain missing there.5Sep 3 · Foreign MinistryConsumer credit subsidies.
The finance ministry, central bank and banking regulator widened interest subsidies to credit-card instalments and lifted the small-business loan ceiling to 75 million yuan.6Sep 5 · State CouncilForeign investment.
Inbound investment fell 6.2 percent to 438.3 billion yuan over January–July, but high-tech industries drew 32.7 percent more, now 41.6 percent of the total.7Sep 5 · CommerceParty expulsion.
The Communist Party's anti-corruption body expelled Yue Puyu, former vice chairman of Shanxi's provincial legislature, over bribery tied to coal-resource allocation.8Sep 2 · Discipline Comm.Discipline and growth.
A Qiushi commentary, September 6, rejected the argument that strict Party governance and the anti-corruption drive slow economic development, calling discipline a safeguard for growth.9Sep 6 · Qiushi
Voices
“The most important lesson of our cooperation has been finding the right way to coexist — non-alignment, non-confrontation, and not targeting any third party.”
President Xi Jinping, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Bishkek · Sep 14
“This achievement lays a solid power foundation for meeting the dual-carbon goals.”
Hao Yingjie, Secretary-General, China Electricity Council · Sep 41
“China's countermeasures are on the whole restrained. China values the hard-won stability of China–U.S. economic and trade relations.”
Commerce Ministry spokesperson · Sep 32
“China's cooperation with Venezuela is protected by international law and by both countries' laws; it concerns no third party and should not be disturbed by one.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun · Sep 35
“Consumers can enjoy the interest subsidy on any purchase they make through credit-card instalments.”
Liao Min, Vice Minister of Finance · Sep 56
“Governing the Party strictly has never been a rope binding development; it is a powerful weapon that safeguards it.”
Qiushi commentator, Party Theoretical Journal · Sep 69
Sources
- National Energy Administration, “A New Pattern in China's Power Supply: Solar Installed Capacity Overtakes Coal for the First Time,” September 4, 2026. nea.gov.cn/20260904/…/solar-overtakes-coal
- Ministry of Commerce, “Spokesperson Answers Questions on Countermeasures Against a Series of Negative China-Related Measures by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Department of Homeland Security,” September 3, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/…/countermeasures-fcc-dhs
- National Development and Reform Commission, “Commission Convenes Meeting on Major Projects Under the 15th Five-Year Plan Outline, Reviewing 109 Major Projects,” September 4, 2026. ndrc.gov.cn/xwdt/xwfb/…/109-major-projects
- Ministry of Commerce, “Xi Jinping's Speech at the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Full Text),” September 1, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/ldrhd/…/xi-sco-bishkek-speech
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Regular Press Conference Held by Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, September 3, 2026,” September 3, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/fyrbt/…/presser-2026-09-03
- State Council, “Boosting Domestic Demand: The Fiscal-Financial Coordination Package Is Upgraded,” September 5, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/…/fiscal-financial-demand
- Ministry of Commerce, “China Attracted 438.33 Billion Yuan of Foreign Investment in January–July 2026,” September 5, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/rcxwfb/…/fdi-jan-jul-2026
- Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, “Yue Puyu, Former Party Group Member and Vice Chairman of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, Expelled from the Party for Serious Violations of Discipline and Law,” September 2, 2026. ccdi.gov.cn/yaowenn/…/yue-puyu-expelled
- Qiushi (Party Theoretical Journal), “Qiushi Commentator: Does Governing the Party Strictly Affect Economic and Social Development?” September 6, 2026. qstheory.cn/20260906/…/party-governance-and-growth