On June 22, hot news in many fields continued.
First, the Ministry of Commerce issued an important announcement. In accordance with the relevant provisions of laws and regulations such as the “Export Control Law of the People’s Republic of China” and the “Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Export Control of Dual-Use Items”, in order to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation, it has decided to include 10 US entities including Ivy Oaks on the export control list.
Specific measures include: 1. Export operators are prohibited from exporting dual-use items to the above-mentioned 10 entities, and organizations and individuals in any country and region are prohibited from transferring or providing dual-use items originating in China to the above-mentioned entities; related export activities that are being carried out should be stopped immediately.
2. If export is really necessary under special circumstances, the export operator shall apply to the Ministry of Commerce.
This announcement will be officially implemented from the date of publication.
In terms of the property market, around the Dragon Boat Festival, the property market in first-tier cities continued to pick up.
Reporters visited on-site in Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai and found that the number of views and transactions of popular new and second-hand housing projects has picked up, and the demand for improved housing has accelerated.
Experts believe that under the background of policy support and stabilizing housing prices, the property market in first-tier cities has seen marginal improvement, and the significance of market indicators has become more prominent, which will help boost national confidence in home buying. The intensity and long-term effectiveness of subsequent market repairs remain to be seen.
There are also new developments in cooperation between technology companies.
Executives from LG Electronics, LG CNS, LG Innotek and other LG Group affiliates will visit Nvidia’s headquarters on Monday to discuss cooperation in the fields of physical artificial intelligence and robotics.
The visit follows a meeting in Seoul earlier this month between LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
Visual content company Getty Images announced on June 21, local time, that it had reached a display cooperation agreement with OpenAI.
Under this partnership, Getty Images’ authorized gallery content will be presented in ChatGPT’s search and discovery experience.
In terms of Apple products, the reporter learned from an Apple supply chain company that the company has recently begun supplying small batches of the first folding screen iPhone.
According to the target guidance received by the company, the product will be released in September.
However, there is recent news that Apple’s first foldable screen iPhone has been postponed from the original fall of 2026 to early 2027.
In this regard, an Apple supply chain company official said that as of now, the target guidance it has received is that the first folding screen iPhone will be released in the fall of 2026.
As of press time, Apple has not responded publicly.
In the automotive field, Xiaomi Automobile Terminal has launched new car purchase discounts.
On June 20, reporters learned from multiple front-line Xiaomi Auto sales personnel that its stores have recently launched a preferential employee internal purchase policy. Ordinary consumers can enjoy a 10,000 yuan discount when purchasing some existing cars through its internal employee channels.
Take a new YU7 long-range version of the car shown on the official APP as an example. After optional zero-gravity driver seats, gold-plated car paint, etc., the final price is 260,500 yuan. However, the total purchase price through its internal channels is only 250,500 yuan, which is an immediate discount of 10,000 yuan.
There is also good news for domestic technology products. Currently, the TGV glass substrate track is ushering in a critical transition point from technology verification to small batch mass production.
Preparations for the production lines of many domestic leading companies have been fully launched, and pilot production lines are accelerating to pass verification. Leading companies are increasing their layout and seizing the opportunity.
According to predictions from international market research institutions, the global advanced packaging market will approach US$80 billion by 2030.
From the breakthrough of underlying materials to the opening up of cross-border processes, domestic TGV glass substrates are accelerating towards mass production.
Enterprise cooperation continues to deepen. Excellence Ruixin announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that the company signed a comprehensive and in-depth cooperation framework agreement with Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. on the 22nd.
The two parties will carry out in-depth collaboration around areas such as large-model knowledge token empowerment and physical AI joint research and development, and jointly explore a new paradigm for next-generation industrial intelligence.
At present, the two parties have jointly created a multi-agent platform “Dabai Polymas” based on Alibaba Cloud’s open source AgentScope Java framework, integrating Tongyi Qianwen 3.7 – Max, CosyVoice, Tongyi Tingwu and other self-developed model capabilities, allowing AI to truly enter the front line of teaching and scientific research.
In the future, both parties will continue to promote the in-depth integration of Qianwen’s large-scale model and the full-discipline system, build a new architecture of “high-quality Token + AI + physical scene”, and deepen the integration of industry and education through physical AI.
In the field of robotics, UBTECH announced on the evening of the 21st that its consumer-grade humanoid robot brand Youshijie full-size super bionic humanoid robot has accumulated more than 5,000 first-time pre-orders on JD.com; Tmall has also launched new sales simultaneously.
In the financial field, Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, announced at the 2026 Lujiazui Forum on June 17 that a pilot program for offshore RMB foreign exchange transactions will be launched in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, authorizing six banks including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of Communications, and China CITIC Bank to use the China Foreign Exchange Trading Center platform to conduct offshore RMB foreign exchange transactions in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.
The reporter learned that the above-mentioned banks have responded quickly and successfully completed the first batch of pilot transactions for offshore RMB foreign exchange in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, successfully implementing the offshore RMB market reform task.
