Shanghai hosted an event to attract investment from the Middle East while providing support for Chinese companies expanding into the region at the Shanghai Eastern Hub International Business Cooperation Zone (Eastern Hub IBCZ) on Tuesday.

China's marine economy continued to make progress in high-quality development in 2025, with a key development index rising 2.2 percent year on year to 128.8, according to the 2026 China Ocean Economic Development Index released Wednesday by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Namibia's state-owned oil company, the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), on Wednesday welcomed the announcement of a new offshore oil discovery in the country's deep-water Orange Basin.

International gold prices have been on a downward trend since early June, with the spot gold dipping below $4,200 per ounce by 1 pm (Beijing time), virtually erasing all of this year's earlier gains.

China's automobile exports continued to surge in May, with 930,000 units exported, marking a year‑on‑year increase of 68.7 percent, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed on Wednesday.

Alibaba's Qwen App on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for college admissions counseling, offering free consultation and application guidance to the nation's more than 10 million annual college entrance examinations (gokao) candidates.