Macro trends, industry shifts and company watching, with an eye on the structure behind the numbers.
As domestic demand keeps growing, coffee companies from Ethiopia, South America and beyond are moving faster to build a presence in China. Chain stores are expanding across major cities, homegrown growing regions like Yunnan are rising, and China is becoming a market the global coffee industry competes hard for.
The China International Big Data Industry Expo 2026 opened Friday in Guiyang, drawing more than 300 companies. Over 20 industry events will cover themes from data infrastructure to international cooperation, with major firms including Huawei joining ecosystem matchmaking.
Shein's Hong Kong IPO range values the company at up to about 27 billion US dollars, roughly 70 percent below its 2022 private valuation. Analysts point to slower growth, tighter tariff rules and capital rotating toward AI as forces behind the reset.
The 26th China International Fair for Investment and Trade will run September 8 to 11 in Xiamen, drawing delegations from 123 countries and regions. New foreign invested enterprises rose 4.4 percent in the first seven months, with high tech FDI up 32.7 percent year on year.
China's Ministry of Justice has determined that cross border investigative measures the EU used in its foreign subsidy probe into JD.com amount to improper extraterritorial jurisdiction and barred related cooperation. The probe concerns JD.com's proposed purchase of German retailer Ceconomy, with an EU decision expected by October 2.
At the APEC Senior Officials' Meeting in Dalian, Chinese customs officials said they will expand the AEO certified company pool and broaden mutual recognition. AEO firms accounted for 44.2 percent of the country's trade over the first seven months, with trade among APEC economies up more than 21 percent.
