Daily News Update

Date: January 27

Highlights

• Several major courier companies, including SF Express, JD Logistics, and Deppon, will operate during the Spring Festival, with an additional peak resource adjustment fee.
• Baidu’s Wenxin Assistant joins the Spring Festival AI competition by distributing 500 million cash red envelopes, with individual envelopes reaching up to 10,000 yuan.
• KFC has adjusted the delivery prices of some products, with an average increase of 0.8 yuan, while dine-in prices remain unchanged.
• Xpeng Motors has launched 1,000 X9 super-range mobile charging stations to assist with car-to-car charging during the Spring Festival.
• The Dongfeng commercial vehicle super-smart factory has commenced production, marking the largest single-unit medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicle smart factory globally.
• Chongqing’s Liangjiang New Area has officially been designated as China’s first administrative national-level new area in the central and western regions.
• Elon Musk has stated that Tesla may sell the Optimus robot to the public by the end of next year.

Domestic News

1. Tencent’s Hunyuan has released the Hunyuan Image 3.0 model with 8 billion parameters, supporting image editing and multi-image fusion.
2. Alibaba’s Qwen 3-Max-Thinking inference model has launched, achieving significant improvements across multiple dimensions, including factual knowledge and complex reasoning.
3. Baidu’s Wenxin Assistant will distribute 500 million cash red envelopes during Spring Festival.
4. JD Technology’s JoyGlance shopping AI has officially launched on smart glasses brand Rokid, marking the first smart glasses shopping application in the industry.
5. Major courier companies, including SF Express and JD Logistics, have announced that they will operate during the Spring Festival while charging an additional peak resource adjustment fee.

Government News

1. The Ministry of Public Security predicts that by 2025, the total number of motor vehicles in China will reach 469 million, with 559 million drivers.
2. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology estimates that by 2025, the number of AI companies in China will exceed 6,000, with the core industry scale expected to surpass 12 trillion yuan.
3. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has published a revised “Assessment and Management Measures for Social Organizations,” which will take effect on March 1.
4. Chongqing’s Liangjiang New Area has officially been designated as the first administrative national-level new area in China’s central and western regions.
5. Dalian aims to achieve a regional GDP of 100.21 billion yuan by 2025, becoming the first city in Northeast China to break the trillion yuan mark.

Technology and Communication

1. iQOO has officially announced the release of its 15 Ultra smartphone on February 4, claiming to be the “first performance Ultra” in the industry.
2. AsiaInfo Technologies has collaborated with ABB Robotics to establish a joint smart lab.
3. TianShu Intelligent Chip has released its fourth-generation chip architecture roadmap and launched the “Tongyang” series of edge computing products.
4. Jinkang Semiconductor’s core component headquarters project has been signed and will be based in Wuxi, with a total investment of 500 million yuan.
5. YuanShuXing has launched a new 13MP CMOS image sensor, MT13F0, to empower various consumer imaging applications.

Entertainment and Gaming

1. The National Copyright Administration has released the first batch of key works for copyright protection in 2026, including “The Beginning of Man” and “The Peaceful Year.”
2. The National Press and Publication Administration has announced the approval of 177 domestic online games in January 2026.
3. Tencent’s “Delta Force” game has surpassed 41 million daily active users in China, with the new season “Metamorphosis” set to launch on January 29.
4. Pasya Technology’s mobile game “Sandstone Town Time” is scheduled to officially launch on February 6, with pre-orders currently available on the Apple iOS platform.
5. Square Enix has announced that the new installment of the “Life is Strange” series, titled “Life is Strange: Reunion,” will be released on March 26, available on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC platforms.

Finance and Economics

1. The China Securities Investment Fund Association reports that by the end of 2025, there will be 19,231 active private fund managers managing a total of 138,300 funds with a scale of 22.15 trillion yuan.
2. Hangzhou Bank’s wholly-owned subsidiary has seen its wealth management product scale exceed 600 billion yuan by the end of 2025.
3. Xinhua Insurance and New Wind Tianyu Group have reached a strategic cooperation agreement to upgrade the “Insurance + Healthcare” integration model.
4. Huashu Group and Huaxia Bank have released the “Poetic Zhejiang Cultural Tourism (Huaxia) Co-branded Debit Card” to build a new ecosystem of “cultural tourism + finance.”
5. Ping An Life and Tsinghua University have jointly customized a “High-Quality Manager Cultivation Program” to assist agents in their high-quality transformation.

Real Estate and Housing

1. Shenzhen has released the “Management Measures for Allocated Affordable Housing,” which will take effect on March 1.
2. Chengdu has issued the “Operational Management Measures for Guaranteed Rental Housing,” introducing five optimization measures.
3. China Electric Power Construction Company expects to sign 8,558 new projects in 2025 with a contract amount of 1.333283 trillion yuan.
4. YuanYang Construction has signed the Guizhou project, providing comprehensive construction services.
5. Deji Group has signed an agreement with Nanjing Jiangbei New Area to create the “Deji Moment” experiential commercial street.

Retail and E-commerce

1. KFC has adjusted some product delivery prices, averaging an increase of 0.8 yuan, while dine-in prices remain unchanged.
2. Hema Fresh has opened its first pre-warehouse in Yancheng, officially launching delivery services.
3. The global chain discount supermarket ALDI has opened its first store in Nanjing’s Xianlin area at Jinying Lakeside World.
4. Haitian Group’s global headquarters has opened in Foshan’s Guicheng Central Vitality Zone, with a total investment exceeding 1 billion yuan.
5. Delisi’s Shanghai operation center and flagship store have officially opened in Yangpu District, Shanghai, accelerating the expansion of the southern market.

Automotive and Transportation

1. Xpeng Motors has officially launched 1,000 X9 super-range mobile charging stations to assist with car-to-car charging during the Spring Festival.
2. Li Auto has surpassed 30,000 deliveries of the Li Auto MEGA, becoming the champion of high-end MPV sales with over 500,000 units.
3. The Dongfeng commercial vehicle super-smart factory in Hubei has commenced production, marking the largest single-unit medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicle smart factory globally.
4. Chery has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Ehi Car to accelerate the layout of smart mobility ecology, with a single batch delivery of 5,000 new cars.
5. Geely’s self-developed all-solid-state battery will complete its first Pack off-line by the end of the year and undergo vehicle installation validation.

Education and Training

1. The Ministry of Education has released the list of counties (cities, districts) for the first batch of national preschool education popularization and inclusiveness plans for 2025, totaling 427.
2. Moore Threads has partnered with Beijing Eleven School to establish an “AI Education Training Base,” creating an innovative talent cultivation model based on domestic computing power.
3. Shanghai Jiao Tong University has released a vertical large language model, Optics GPT, to provide intelligent support for research, design, and teaching in the field of optics.
4. Super Xun Communications has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with the Chinese Fire Rescue Academy to empower fire safety with AI computing power.
5. Saifutian Meidalan has signed a strategic agreement with Hefei University of Technology to jointly promote technological upgrades in the photovoltaic industry.

Healthcare

1. The National Health Commission has strengthened pediatric construction in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, achieving full coverage of pediatric services in national three-level public TCM hospitals.
2. InSilico Medicine has partnered with Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital to establish a joint laboratory for innovative drug research in chest diseases powered by AI.
3. Minsheng Healthcare has launched the Xiaojin Vita brand strategy, focusing on professional child nutrition.
4. IBOR Medical has collaborated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to deepen industry-academic-research cooperation in optical science.
5. United Imaging Medical has received approval for its double-wide dual-source CT, pushing domestic ultra-high-end CT to a new stage.

Tourism and Lodging

1. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that 81 tourism homestays meet national Grade A standards, while 104 meet Grade B standards.
2. Sichuan has launched a series of cultural tourism promotional activities for the Spring Festival: over 2,400 cultural tourism and sports activities will be held across the province, with over 40 million yuan in consumption incentives.
3. The third runway at Changsha Airport has initiated flight verification, planning to open simultaneously with Terminal 3 in 2026.
4. Viking Cruises marks its tenth anniversary in China, having served nearly 100,000 guests, with nearly 70% of guests aged over 55.
5. Shantou has invested 5 billion yuan to build the Nanao International Leisure Tourist Island, advancing infrastructure upgrades for 4A scenic areas, intercontinental hotels, and 11 featured projects.

International Perspective

1. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman reported that the company has added over $1 billion in annual recurring revenue through its API business in the past month.
2. Microsoft has launched a new AI model, Rho-alpha, aimed at the robotics sector, facilitating robots to execute tasks in more complex and unpredictable real-world environments.
3. NVIDIA has deepened its cooperation with cloud computing service provider CoreWeave, investing $2 billion to accelerate the construction of global AI factories.
4. Elon Musk announced that Tesla may sell the Optimus robot to the public by the end of next year.
5. Apple is expected to ship approximately 14 million iPhones in India by 2025, raising its market share to 9%, achieving a record high despite market challenges.

Financing and Acquisitions

1. New energy vehicle thermal management solution provider Su Yan Electronics has completed several million yuan in Pre-A+ round financing, led by Boyuan Capital.
2. Intelligent grinding equipment developer Bifus has secured nearly 10 million yuan in angel+ round financing, led by Dunxing Capital.
3. High-performance RF device and overall solutions provider XianDao Polestar has completed 50 million yuan in angel round financing, led by Guoyuan Fund and Guoyuan Equity.
4. Precision health innovation service provider Yi Yuan Chang Shou has completed several million yuan in angel round financing, led by Jianwei Investment and Jingzhi Capital.
5. Cell therapy drug developer XinJing ZhiYuan has completed over 200 million yuan in Series B financing, led by Xingze Capital and an industry fund, with follow-up investments from existing shareholders.
6. Climbing robot company JiTai Intelligent has completed 75 million yuan in a new round of financing, primarily from Shaoxing Binhai New District ChangZhe Venture Capital and Shaoxing GuoDing Multi-Strategy Private Equity Partnership.