China’s Taiwan Affairs Office urged Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities to lift restrictions on visits by mainland performers. It said the restrictions run counter to the wishes of Taiwan residents.
A spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said efforts by Taiwan's ruling party to sever economic ties with the mainland are doomed to fail. Cross-strait trade reached $301.18 billion from January to September.
Taiwan-side figures show 2.492 million trips by Taiwan residents to mainland China from January to August, up 19.63% year on year. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office criticized efforts to hinder the visits.
China says it will maintain measures against companies linked to Taiwan independence advocate Shen Boyang. The statement came from Zhang Han, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office.
Chinese researchers activated an immune pathway linking alveolar macrophages and NK cells in mice, inducing memory-like NK cells inside the body. The approach showed an effect against melanoma growth.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received Chinese Premier Li Qiang on October 19. Li is visiting Tajikistan officially and will attend the SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions investigated ultrafast magnetic dynamics in freestanding SrRuO3 films. The films demagnetized in about 1 ps, while an interfacial nanogap slowed their magnetic recovery.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia. He toured a nature reserve and learned about the development of green computing capacity in a high-tech zone.
Researchers in China directly measured the Meissner effect in lanthanum hydrides superconducting near room temperature. At 155 GPa, the sample’s superconducting transition temperature reached 237 K.
Since April, Macao’s Cultural Affairs Bureau has set up more than 40 10-minute reading corners across Macao and the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin. New organisations and businesses can take part.
Researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed StableAFM for atomic force microscopy. Tests showed that adding physical measurement constraints reduced the model’s mean squared error by about 31.3%.
Macao’s Health Bureau reported five clusters of flu-like illness among students at five schools. Two students are in hospital and remain in stable condition.
China’s average surveyed urban unemployment rate was 5.2% in the first three quarters of 2026, unchanged from a year earlier. Unemployment among young people fell in September from the previous month.
Twenty-eight people developed fever, abdominal pain, diarrhoea and vomiting after a group meal in Macau attended by about 200 people. The municipal authority is investigating and testing food and environmental samples.
Retail sales of goods and services in China rose 2.6% year on year in the first three quarters of 2026. Online sales increased 4.4%, while rural consumer-goods sales grew 2.3%.
China’s investment in high-tech industries rose 4.9% year on year in the first three quarters of 2026. Spending on information services, internet-related services and transport infrastructure also increased.
The value added of China’s large industrial enterprises grew 5.3% year on year in January–September 2026. High-tech and equipment manufacturing contributed to the increase.
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