China restricts tunnel-boring machine exports from November.
Today's events
Tunnel-machine export controls.
Commerce ministry placed tunnel-boring machines under export licensing from November 18, adjusted dredger rules, and loosened controls on consumer-grade drones.1Oct 19 · Commerce MinistryThird-quarter growth.
Economy grew 4.5 percent year-on-year in the third quarter; fixed-asset investment fell 7.2 percent, with property development down 20.6 percent.2Oct 19 · Statistics BureauArtificial-intelligence export list.
Commerce and science ministries proposed adding 40 technologies to the export-restriction catalogue — 23 in artificial intelligence — and imposed immediate pre-export registration during consultation.3Oct 16 · Commerce MinistrySeptember energy output.
Coal output fell 6.8 percent and refinery runs dropped 8.4 percent year-on-year, while nuclear generation rose 21.5 percent and solar 19.5 percent.4Oct 19 · Statistics BureauXi in Inner Mongolia.
Xi inspected green data centres and a restored wetland in Ulanqab, urging officials to convert the region's computing capacity into industrial advantage.5Oct 16 · XinhuaNew productive forces.
Qiushi commentary, October 19, on the Party and State Council's new Opinions on developing new quality productive forces, urging reform of how officials are judged.6Oct 19 · QiushiMinors-platform rules.
Internet regulator opened designation of platforms with over ten million registered minors or one million monthly minor users, who must self-report within twenty working days.7Oct 19 · Cyberspace AdministrationDouble expulsion in Shenyang.
Liaoning expelled Guo Zhongxiao, Shenyang's former political-legal affairs secretary, from the Party and public office for bribery and wasteful image projects; case sent to prosecutors.8Oct 17 · Discipline CommissionJapan's nuclear debate.
Foreign ministry said Tokyo's talk of hosting American nuclear weapons and acquiring nuclear submarines exposes swelling nuclear ambitions barred by its treaty obligations.9Oct 16 · Foreign Ministry
Voices
“The computing network is one of six networks the state is planning and building. The industry is accelerating, its prospects broad — pair computing with power and water.”
Xi Jinping, General Secretary, in Ulanqab · Oct 165
“The international environment is complex and shifting, insufficient domestic demand remains prominent, and the foundation for steady improvement in the economy still needs consolidating.”
National Bureau of Statistics, quarterly communiqué · Oct 192
“The items covered have clear dual-use military and civilian attributes. China imposes export controls in accordance with law, consistent with common international practice.”
Commerce Ministry spokesperson · Oct 191
“Japan is a defeated state of the Second World War and a non-nuclear party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Japanese politicians need remedial lessons in history and law.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning · Oct 169
“Look at gross domestic product, but look harder at innovation content, green content and real value — and prevent padded targets and promotion by numbers.”
Qiushi commentary, Party Theoretical Journal · Oct 196
“Guo Zhongxiao lost his ideals and convictions, abandoned his founding mission, held a distorted view of merit, and pursued image projects that drained people and money.”
Liaoning Discipline Inspection Commission · Oct 178
Sources
- Ministry of Commerce (商务部), “Spokesperson answers questions on export controls for tunnel-boring machines and the adjustment of dredger-related export-control measures,” October 19, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/…/tunnel-boring-export-control
- National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), “The economy ran broadly stable in the first three quarters; high-quality development made new gains,” October 19, 2026. stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/…/q3-2026-economic-performance
- Ministry of Commerce (商务部), “Spokesperson answers questions on revising the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export,” October 16, 2026. mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/…/restricted-technology-catalogue
- National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), “Energy production in September 2026,” October 19, 2026. stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/…/september-energy-production
- Xinhua, via Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), “Xi Jinping, inspecting Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, stresses coordinating high-quality development with high-level protection,” October 16, 2026. cac.gov.cn/2026-10/16/…/xi-ulanqab-inspection
- Qiushi (求是, Party Theoretical Journal), “Reform and development together shape new production relations,” October 19, 2026. qstheory.cn/20261019/…/new-production-relations
- Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), “Notice on launching the designation of online platform providers with very large numbers of minor users or significant influence over minors,” October 19, 2026. cac.gov.cn/2026-10/19/…/minors-platform-designation
- Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委国家监委), “Guo Zhongxiao, former Shenyang municipal Party standing committee member and political-legal affairs secretary, expelled from the Party and from public office,” October 17, 2026. ccdi.gov.cn/yaowenn/…/guo-zhongxiao-expelled
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), “Regular press conference held by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning,” October 16, 2026. mfa.gov.cn/wjdt/fyrbt/…/mao-ning-oct-16