China plans 20 trillion yuan of energy investment.
Today's events
Energy build-out.
Energy administration's head wrote in Qiushi on Sept 14 that wind and solar will pass half of power capacity by 2030, drawing 20 trillion yuan.1Sep 14 · QiushiLocal standards scrapped.
Market regulator said all 31 provinces have abolished more than 7,400 local standards under a drive against barriers to a single national market.2Sep 14 · Market RegulatorFinancial five-year plan.
Central bank and three other regulators set out the 2026–2030 financial plan, aiming for a Chinese-style modern financial system in outline by 2030.3Sep 10 · PBOCPaying small suppliers.
Cabinet told industry regulators to hold large firms to sixty-day cash payment of small suppliers, and capped supply-chain payment vouchers at six months.4Sep 10 · State CouncilTechnology for the Global South.
Foreign minister said China will build the emerging-economies bloc an open-source artificial-intelligence zone, a digital-industry cloud platform and a youth science programme.5Sep 14 · State CouncilHidden local debt.
Party discipline body and finance ministry named six cases of concealed or falsely cleared local government debt, including 1.8 billion yuan diverted in Ningxia.6Sep 11 · Finance MinistrySpying on Chinese firms.
Commerce ministry said it firmly opposes an American intelligence official's claim that Chinese artificial-intelligence, chip and biotech companies are legitimate espionage targets.7Sep 11 · Commerce MinistryCertifying chip supply chains.
Foreign ministry criticised an American pilot in Panama to certify the origin of chips, critical minerals and artificial-intelligence hardware.8Sep 10 · MFAFactory prices rise.
Factory-gate prices rose 3.8 percent in August from a year earlier, with mining up 17.8 percent and coal up 26.6 percent.9Sep 9 · Stats Bureau
Voices
“The 15th Five-Year Plan is both China's own blueprint for development and a list of cooperation offered to the world.”
President Xi Jinping, BRICS summit, New Delhi · September 135
“We must strengthen the resilience of energy production, supply, storage and sales, and meet an uncertain external environment with the certainty of domestic supply.”
Wang Hongzhi, Director, National Energy Administration, in Qiushi · September 141
“Monetary stability and financial stability are always the central bank's core objectives; they need an efficient, stable two-pillar framework of policy and macro-prudential management.”
Lu Lei, Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China · September 103
“By nakedly declaring Chinese firms legitimate targets for espionage, the United States has torn away the fig leaf on its intelligence agencies and laid bare the bandit logic of hegemony.”
Ministry of Commerce spokesperson · September 117
“The debts were all run up by the people before me — why on earth should I be the one to repay them?”
Wu Shenghua, former Party secretary of Bijie, quoted in the joint circular · September 116
“Setting up closed and exclusive ‘small circles’ and playing geopolitical calculations does not help the Global South, including Latin America and the Caribbean, achieve technological progress.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun · September 108
Sources
- Qiushi, “Accelerating Construction of a New Energy System to Support Building an Energy Power” (加快建设新型能源体系 支撑能源强国建设), September 14, 2026. qstheory.cn/20260914/…/new-energy-system
- State Administration for Market Regulation, “China Clears Local Standards Nationwide; More Than 7,400 Abolished” (我国全面清理地方标准 已废止7400余项), September 14, 2026. samr.gov.cn/xw/mtjj/…/local-standards-cleared
- People's Bank of China, “State Council Information Office Briefing: Implementing the 15th Five-Year Plan in Finance and Building a Financial Power,” September 10, 2026. pbc.gov.cn/goutongjiaoliu/…/financial-five-year-plan
- State Council (gov.cn), “Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Strengthening Governance of Payment Arrears to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises” (Guobanfa [2026] No. 24), September 10, 2026. gov.cn/zhengce/…/content_7080627
- State Council (gov.cn), “Gathering Strength for the Global South, Opening a New Journey of BRICS Cooperation — Foreign Minister Wang Yi on President Xi Jinping's Attendance at the 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit in India,” September 14, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/…/content_7080989
- Ministry of Finance, “General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and General Office of the Ministry of Finance Publicly Report Six Typical Accountability Cases on Local Government Hidden Debt,” September 11, 2026. jdjc.mof.gov.cn/jianchagonggao/…/t20260911_3997260
- Ministry of Commerce, “Spokesperson Answers Questions on a Senior U.S. Intelligence Official's Public Remarks on Conducting Espionage Against China,” September 11, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/xwfyrth/…/espionage-remarks
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Regular Press Conference Held by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun on September 10, 2026,” September 10, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/fyrbt/…/t20260910_12019908
- National Bureau of Statistics, “In August 2026 Producer Prices for Industrial Products Rose 3.8 Percent Year on Year and 0.4 Percent Month on Month,” September 9, 2026. stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/…/t20260909_1965262