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One of the best-tested hypotheses in sustainable finance concerns the relation between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and corporate financial performance (CFP). There are well over 2,000 published papers in the last decade, but the results are wildly conflicting, ranging from positive to null to negative, and these findings can arise within the same data sample and methodology.… Read more: ESG Rating Divergence and Corporate Financial Performance: A Review of the Measurement Problem

China’s first domestically developed B‑cell maturation antigen×Cluster of differentiation 3 (BCMA×CD3) bispecific antibody, Vonsetamig Injection, has received official approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). The new class 1 biologic drug is indicated for adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have failed multiple lines of prior treatment. Multiple myeloma ranks as the second most common… Read more: China’s First Domestic BCMA×CD3 Bispecific Antibody Approved for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Nvidia has officially agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, for $12.9 billion, marking one of the chipmaker’s largest acquisitions to date. The deal, announced on September 3rd, 2026, follows weeks of speculation and represents Nvidia’s most significant move beyond its core hardware business into the software and developer ecosystem layer of artificial… Read more: Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion in Landmark AI Platform Bet

This study utilized the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model to predict the seasonal incidence of infectious diarrhea in China, based on surveillance data from 2014 to 2024. The optimal SARIMA (1,0,1)(1,1,1)₁₂ model demonstrated reliable predictive performance, with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 12.73%. Epidemiologically, infectious diarrhea exhibited stable bimodal seasonal peaks annually. The 24-month forecast… Read more: Forecasting the Incidence Trend of Infectious Diarrhea Based on Time‑series Models and Research on Public Health Prevention and Control Strategies

Geographical indication (GI) serves as a vital instrument for rural development, while its practical effectiveness presents obvious disparities. This paper introduces the public policy concept of the implementation gap into research on China’s GI system. This concept denotes the structural disconnection between formal institutional design and practical policy implementation. Drawing on an embedded case study of Jiangjin pepper and… Read more: Why Do Geographical Indication Policies Underperform? The Implementation Gap in China’s GI Regime: A Case Study of Zanthoxylum bungeanum with Lessons from the EU

Local industrial technological innovation has reached a new milestone with the official release of the upgraded 3.0 Pro intelligent chemical industry artificial intelligence (AI) model, marking the first specialized industrial large model in China’s chemical sector capable of shifting from passive knowledge question and answer (Q&A) to active intelligent execution. The breakthrough empowers the province’s traditional chemical and new… Read more: Province Pioneers Industrial Upgrade with Launch of Advanced Chemical Industry AI Model

Amid the advancement of rural revitalization, a growing number of returner survival migrant entrepreneurs return to rural areas to grow rice and corn. Aiming to raise household income, they tend to pursue blind large-scale operation and full-industry-chain self-management due to the low unit output value of staple crops. Ignoring the mature agricultural trusteeship service system, they suffer mismatches between… Read more: Research on Dynamic Decision Deduction System for Returners for Survival Entrepreneurship Engaged in Basic Crop

With the continuous advancement of financial opening-up in China and the in-depth implementation of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) development strategy, cross-border capital flow facilitation has become a core institutional driving force for regional financial integration and two-way factor opening. A series of innovative institutional arrangements, including capital market connectivity, cross-border Renminbi (RMB) settlement facilitation, cross-border financing… Read more: Impacts of Cross-border Capital Flow Facilitation Reforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on Hong Kong’s Offshore Financial Market

Recent industry reports show that driven by widespread mobile internet access, upgraded smart hardware and rising demand for fragmented‑time consumption, China’s “ear economy” keeps expanding and has become a key growth engine within digital cultural consumption. Covering audio books, podcasts, online audio, in‑vehicle audio content and paid audio services, diversified audio‑based consumption scenarios have taken shape. Moving past extensive… Read more: Audio Consumption Booms: China’s “Ear Economy” Speeds Toward High‑quality Growth

The emergence of new institutional forms in global data governance reflects a broader transformation in the governance of digital trade. Rather than converging toward a single treaty-based regime, the field is increasingly characterized by fragmentation, functional differentiation, and the proliferation of coordination platforms. Within this evolving landscape, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the World Data Organization (WDO) represent… Read more: Digital Trade Governance Models: Comparing APEC and the World Data Organization

Chinese aerospace researchers have successfully realized high-speed bidirectional laser communication between the earth and the moon for the first time, marking a major technological breakthrough in deep-space high-bandwidth transmission, according to the latest official announcement from China’s aerospace science and technology authorities. Breaking through the technical bottlenecks of long-distance interference, dynamic tracking and signal attenuation in lunar-earth communication, the… Read more: China Achieves First-ever High-speed Bidirectional Laser Communication Between Earth and Moon

Global economic markets are undergoing a major structural shift in late August 2026, driven by escalating US-Canada trade frictions that disrupt traditional North American trade frameworks and an unprecedented boom in the global artificial intelligence (AI) computing industry that fuels tech economic growth. The dual trends of intensifying regional trade disputes and explosive growth in digital technology sectors have… Read more: US-Canada Trade Tensions & AI Computing Boom Reshape Global Economic Landscape in Late August 2026

The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC), held from August 19th to 23rd in Beijing’s Yizhuang district under the theme “Human-Robot Symbiosis, Production-Demand Integration”, brought together more than 300 exhibitors and over 2,000 robotic products. The event featured more than 150 new products making their global debuts, a 21 percent increase year-on-year, with participating companies growing 36 percent from the… Read more: WRC 2026 Debuts Over 150 New Products as Robot Industry Shifts from Demonstrations to Real-world Delivery

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of digital finance and the transformation of demand for financial technology (FinTech) talents, the blockchain finance course has become one of the core courses in finance programs to address industry challenges and cultivate interdisciplinary talents. This paper aims to analyze the current problems faced by blockchain finance teaching, and to define and… Read more: Teaching Practice and Reform of the Blockchain Finance Course

In recent years, widespread chaos has emerged across multiple sectors, including secondhand trading, local lifestyle services, employment recruitment, and niche consumer goods. Qualified merchants struggle to survive, compliant practitioners face shrinking profits, and low-quality, low-priced products dominate the mainstream market. Despite consumers’ pursuit of high quality and formal enterprises’ adherence to service standards, the market presents an abnormal paradox… Read more: The Lemons Market Dilemma: How Bad Products Crowd Out Good Ones and Erode Market Trust