China imposes duties on Japanese chipmaking gas.
Today's events
Japanese chip-gas duties.
Commerce ministry's preliminary ruling put dumping margins on dichlorosilane from Japan, a chipmaking gas, at 80.8 to 99.2 percent and imposed provisional duties.1Sep 7 · CommerceDiscipline plenary.
The Party's anti-corruption body published its sixth plenary communiqué, electing two new deputy secretaries and ordering strict discipline through the coming leadership reshuffle.2Sep 6 · State CouncilWorld's tallest dam.
All three first-phase units entered service at Shuangjiangkou in Sichuan, whose 315-metre dam anchors a two-gigawatt station on the Dadu River.3Sep 4 · Energy Admin.Local protectionism cases.
Market regulator published seven cases of local governments walling off outside firms through discriminatory bidding conditions, exclusive supplier deals and stalled approvals.4Sep 7 · Market RegulatorGrid buildout.
Energy administration ordered faster approval of transmission corridors, projecting power demand to grow about five percent a year through the next five-year plan.5Sep 4 · Energy Admin.Future industries.
The government portal republished Xi's call for future, emerging and traditional industries to reinforce one another, the core of his new quality productive forces doctrine.6Sep 7 · State CouncilChip-design protection.
Revised State Council rules on integrated-circuit layout designs take effect October 15, extending protection to photonic and quantum circuits.7Sep 2 · State CouncilHigh-end steel.
Seven specialty steels reached domestic mass production this year, including a 0.07-millimetre foil now used in chip substrates and fifth-generation base stations.8Sep 6 · State CouncilPacific missile tests.
Foreign ministry gave no commitment on Pacific island leaders' call for 24 hours' notice of Chinese missile tests, restating a defensive defence policy.9Sep 4 · Foreign Ministry
Voices
“When traditional industry has a solid foundation, future and emerging industries will have staying power.”
Xi Jinping, Politburo group study session · Jan 20266
“China has always been prudent and restrained in its use of trade remedies, and firmly upholds fair and free trade.”
Commerce Ministry spokesperson · Sep 71
“Strengthen political supervision, deepen political inspection tours, enforce strict discipline through the leadership reshuffle, and press on unswervingly with correcting conduct and fighting corruption.”
20th Central Discipline Commission, sixth plenary communiqué · Aug 222
“The power grid is major national network infrastructure; it bears on economic and social development and on energy security.”
National Energy Administration, grid deployment meeting · Sep 15
“These practices breach the Anti-Monopoly Law's bar on administrative bodies abusing power to exclude or restrict competition, and raise institutional transaction costs for firms.”
State Administration for Market Regulation · Sep 74
“China keeps to the path of peaceful development, firmly pursues a defensive national defence policy, and has never engaged in military expansion.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun · Sep 49
Sources
- Ministry of Commerce, “Spokesperson Answers Questions on the Preliminary Ruling in the Anti-Dumping Investigation into Imported Dichlorosilane Originating in Japan,” September 7, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/xwfyrth/…/dichlorosilane-preliminary-ruling
- State Council, “Communiqué of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China,” September 6, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/…/ccdi-sixth-plenary-communique
- National Energy Administration, “All Three First-Phase Units of the World's Tallest Dam Enter Service,” September 4, 2026. nea.gov.cn/20260904/…/shuangjiangkou-units-online
- State Administration for Market Regulation, “Second Batch of Cases Published: Correcting the Chokepoints That Obstruct Fair Market Access and Business Autonomy,” September 7, 2026. samr.gov.cn/xw/mtjj/…/fair-market-access-cases
- National Energy Administration, “Accelerating the Approval and Construction of Transmission Corridors and Other Major Grid Projects,” September 4, 2026. nea.gov.cn/20260904/…/new-grid-deployment-meeting
- State Council, “‘Let Future Industries, Emerging Industries and Traditional Industries Reinforce One Another’,” September 7, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/…/future-industries
- State Council, “Regulations on the Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Designs” (Order No. 842 of the State Council), September 2, 2026. gov.cn/zhengce/content/…/ic-layout-design-regulations
- State Council, “China Achieves Domestic Mass Production of High-End Steel Across Multiple Fields,” September 6, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/…/high-end-steel
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Regular Press Conference Held by Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, September 4, 2026,” September 4, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/fyrbt/…/presser-2026-09-04