China publishes five-year plan for battery industry.
Today's events
Battery five-year plan.
Industry ministry and six other departments published a five-year battery plan targeting initial large-scale use of solid-state cells by 2030.1Sep 30 · Energy Admin.Holiday spending push.
A fourth tranche of 62.5 billion yuan in special treasury bonds for consumer-goods trade-ins landed just before the National Day holiday.2Oct 4 · State CouncilTrade-secret precedent.
Supreme People's Court issued binding guidance letting courts presume trade-secret theft when a firm poaches a rival's engineers and ships suspiciously fast.3Oct 1 · Supreme CourtJapan defense paper.
Defense ministry firmly opposed Japan's 2026 defense white paper, which called Chinese military activity the greatest strategic challenge, and restated Taiwan as a red line.4Oct 3 · Defense MinistryForeign investment.
Inbound foreign investment fell 5.3% to 480 billion yuan over eight months, while high-technology inflows rose 35.1% to 41.7% of the total.5Oct 3 · Commerce MinistryShort-video crackdown.
Internet regulator opened a two-month national campaign against fabricated personas on short video, targeting fake credentials and AI impersonation of public figures.6Sep 30 · Internet RegulatorXi on China's global role.
Qiushi commentary, October 4, builds on Xi's National Day speech, casting China as a source of certainty and naming its four global initiatives.7Oct 4 · QiushiGlobal governance bloc.
Foreign ministry said 94 countries joined a Chinese-led statement at the UN rights council in Geneva calling for “correcting” international human-rights governance.8Oct 3 · Foreign MinistrySecurities regulator expelled.
Former Party secretary and director of the Hubei securities regulator was expelled from the Party for bribery; his case went to prosecutors.9Sep 28 · Discipline Commission
Voices
“We will keep to an independent foreign policy of peace, … and inject more certainty and positive energy into a world of turbulence and change.”
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party · Sept 307
“Japan's new white paper hypes the so-called ‘China threat’ to find excuses for loosening its own military restraints. We are strongly dissatisfied and firmly oppose this.”
Chen Xi, Defense Ministry Spokesperson · Oct 34
“Head-of-state diplomacy is the most important political guarantee for steady China-Russia relations. We welcome President Putin at November's Asia-Pacific leaders' meeting in Shenzhen.”
Guo Jiakun, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson · Oct 38
“Where an accused infringer recruits another firm's talent and then produces related products in far less time than independent research would reasonably require, infringement may be presumed.”
Supreme People's Court, Guiding Case No. 273 · Oct 13
“Platforms may not use labels such as ‘fictional performance’, ‘AI-generated’ or ‘marketing’ to evade governance requirements. Accounts of a vicious nature will be resolutely banned.”
Cyberspace Administration of China, campaign notice · Sept 306
“He seriously violated Party discipline, committed grave official misconduct and is suspected of bribery; he did not restrain himself after the 18th Party Congress.”
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, case notice · Sept 289
Sources
- National Energy Administration, “Five-Year Plan for the New Battery Industry Released” (《新型电池产业发展“十五五”规划》发布), September 30, 2026. nea.gov.cn/20260930/…/new-battery-industry-plan
- State Council, “Multiple Measures Activate National Day Holiday Consumption” (多举措激活国庆假期消费活力), October 4, 2026. gov.cn/yaowen/…/holiday-consumption
- Supreme People's Court, “Guiding Case No. 273: Trade-Secret Infringement Dispute (Automotive Chassis Technology),” October 1, 2026. court.gov.cn/shenpan/…/guiding-case-273
- Ministry of National Defense, “Spokesperson Chen Xi Answers Questions on the Japanese Government's 2026 Defense White Paper,” October 3, 2026. mod.gov.cn/gfbw/xwfyr/…/japan-defense-white-paper
- Ministry of Commerce, “China Used 479.95 Billion Yuan of Foreign Investment in January–August 2026,” October 3, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/…/fdi-jan-aug-2026
- Cyberspace Administration of China, “Campaign Launched to Rectify the Chaos of False Personas in Short Video” (“清朗·整治短视频虚假人设乱象”), September 30, 2026. cac.gov.cn/2026-09/30/…/short-video-false-personas
- Qiushi, “Injecting More Certainty and Positive Energy into a World of Turbulence and Change” — on Xi Jinping's speech at the reception marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic, October 4, 2026. qstheory.cn/20261004/…/certainty-and-positive-energy
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun Answers Questions, October 3, 2026,” October 3, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/fyrbt/…/guo-jiakun-oct-3
- Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, “Wang Guangyou, Former Party Secretary and Director of the Hubei Securities Regulatory Bureau, Expelled from the Party,” September 28, 2026. ccdi.gov.cn/yaowenn/…/wang-guangyou-expelled