Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index briefly climbed over 2 percent and surged past 66,000 to hit a fresh intraday high on Wednesday morning, boosted by gains in heavyweight technology shares.

A report released by the China Software Testing Center (CSTC), cited by CCTV News on Tuesday, pointed to two developments worth noting.

Chinese manufacturers are riding the boom in the sports economy, with goods ranging from footballs to sports shirts and hats as well as vehicles ramping up sales in the international market ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is scheduled to kick off on June 11.

China had built 42 intelligent computing clusters with a 10,000-card scale, and the total electricity consumption of the country's computing centers had reached 170 billion kilowatt-hours as of 2025, a report compiled by the Chinese energy authority showed on Tuesday, the CCTV News reported.

The just-concluded APEC Trade Ministers' Meeting held in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, achieved multiple results and consensus, with 2026 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Joint Statement (Suzhou Statement) and APEC Roadmap for Innovative, Competitive and Resilient Services, achieving

On May 25, He Tingbo, a Huawei board member and president of the company's semiconductor business department, officially introduced a new evolutionary path for semiconductors - the Tau Scaling Law.