Xi on manufacturing, 40-year mortgages · Sep 17

Xi issues directive on advanced manufacturing.

Today's events

Advanced manufacturing order.
Xi directed China to keep building up advanced manufacturing and raise supply-chain self-reliance; Premier Li Qiang named smart manufacturing the main thrust.¹Sep 17 · Gov.cn
Forty-year mortgages.
The central bank and banking regulator raised the maximum home loan from 30 to 40 years and delayed mortgage payouts on presold flats until completion.²Sep 12 · PBOC
Iran talks in Beijing.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi pressed Iran and the United States back toward their Islamabad understanding and urged an early reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.³Sep 17 · Gov.cn
Antitrust build-out.
The market regulator counted 270 administrative-monopoly cases since 2022 and a 5.18-billion-yuan penalty on travel platform Ctrip for forcing hotels into exclusive deals.⁴Sep 17 · SAMR
Sixty-day payment rule.
The State Council told large firms to pay small suppliers cash within 60 days and capped electronic payment vouchers at six months.⁵Sep 10 · State Council
Cross-Strait line.
Politburo member Li Ganjie told China's peaceful-reunification council to keep opposing independence and deepen exchanges with Taiwan.⁶Sep 17 · Xinhua
Discipline doctrine.
A Qiushi commentary, 17 September, argued strict discipline is the root cure in governing the whole Party, and that no member is exempt.⁷Sep 17 · Qiushi
Europe's telecom rules.
The foreign ministry backed seventeen European telecom chiefs who warned that the bloc's revised cybersecurity law would force costly replacement of non-European equipment.⁸Sep 16 · MFA
Chongqing double expulsion.
Lan Qinghua, former secretary-general of Chongqing's political consultative conference, was expelled from the Party and public office and handed to prosecutors.⁹Sep 16 · CCDI

Voices

“Hold to the direction of intelligence, green development and integration; keep making advanced manufacturing bigger and stronger; and raise the self-reliance and security of industrial chains.”
Xi Jinping, General Secretary, directive on advanced manufacturing · Sept 17¹

“We urge all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz soon; we do not want regional tension spilling toward Yemen and the Red Sea.”
Wang Yi, Foreign Minister, in talks with Iran's foreign minister · Sept 16³

“We are delaying when personal housing loans are paid out, to guard against financial risk from late delivery — so that buyers get the home first, then repay.”
People's Bank of China, on the housing-credit overhaul · Sept 12²

“Antitrust enforcement corrects monopoly conduct that distorts competition at one end and prevents improper government interference at the other — the hinge between an effective market and a capable government.”
Wang Shizhong, Director-General, Competition Policy Coordination Dept., market regulator · Sept 17⁴

“Protectionism cannot buy competitiveness. It will only forfeit the chance of digital transformation and damage Europe's image as an open market.”
Guo Jiakun, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson · Sept 16⁸

“He gravely violated the Party's political, organisational, integrity and personal-conduct discipline and, after the 18th Party Congress, neither restrained himself nor stopped.”
Party discipline commission notice on Lan Qinghua · Sept 16⁹

Sources

State Council, “Xi Jinping Issues Important Instructions on Developing Advanced Manufacturing” ('习近平就发展先进制造业作出重要指示'), September 17, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/…/advanced-manufacturing-instructions
People's Bank of China, “Officials Answer Questions on the Opinions on Reforming and Improving Real-Estate Credit Management and Accelerating a New Property Development Model” ('就《关于改革完善房地产信贷管理推动加快构建房地产发展新模式的意见》答记者问'), September 12, 2026. pbc.gov.cn/goutongjiaoliu/…/property-credit-reform-qa
State Council, “Wang Yi Holds Talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi” ('王毅同伊朗外长阿拉格齐会谈'), September 17, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/…/wang-yi-araghchi-talks
State Administration for Market Regulation, “Institutions as Foundation, Regulation as Force: Advancing the National Unified Market” ('制度筑基监管发力纵深推进全国统一大市场建设'), September 17, 2026. samr.gov.cn/xw/mtjj/…/unified-market-antitrust
State Council General Office, “Circular on Strengthening Governance of Overdue Payments Owed to Small and Medium Enterprises” ('国务院办公厅关于加强中小企业回款难问题治理有关工作的通知', Guobanfa [2026] No. 24, issued September 3), published September 10, 2026. gov.cn/zhengce/content/…/sme-payment-circular
Xinhua (via China Military Online), “China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification Holds Fourth Standing Council Meeting of Its Tenth Term” ('中国和平统一促进会召开十届四次常务理事会会议'), September 17, 2026. 81.cn/ss_208539/…/reunification-council-meeting
Qiushi, “Govern the Whole Party with Strict Discipline” ('坚持用严明的纪律管全党治全党'), September 17, 2026. qstheory.cn/20260917/…/strict-party-discipline
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Regular Press Conference Held by Spokesperson Guo Jiakun on September 16, 2026” ('2026年9月16日外交部发言人郭嘉昆主持例行记者会'), September 16, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt_674879/fyrbt_674889/…/presser-sept-16
CCDI & National Supervisory Commission, “Lan Qinghua, Former Secretary-General of the Chongqing CPPCC, Expelled from the Party and from Public Office” ('重庆市政协原秘书长蓝庆华被开除党籍和公职'), September 16, 2026. ccdi.gov.cn/yaowenn/…/lan-qinghua-expulsion