(Xinhua) Chinese online payment clearinghouse NetsUnion and card payment giant China UnionPay reported robust growth in online payments during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, central bank data showed Thursday.  

During the eight-day holiday that concluded on Wednesday, online payments via the two platforms hit 13.26 trillion yuan (about 1.86 trillion U.S. dollars), up 1.86 trillion yuan from last year's holiday.  

The two platforms handled nearly 41.6 billion transactions during this period, representing a rise of 9.5 billion transactions from the previous National Day holiday, according to the central bank.

(China Daily) Measures promoting reforms for market-based allocation of technological and data elements in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will further ignite innovation vitality and unleash its industrial advantages, experts said.  

The remarks were made following the launch of comprehensive pilot reform plans to push forward with market-based allocation of production factors across 10 key regions.

(China Daily) Inside a sprawling plant in Hefei, Anhui province, rows of robotic arms swing in unison, sparks flash as metal panels fuse into the skeletal frame of a car. On a nearby screen, a digital twin recreates every motion in real time, generating millions of data points each minute.

(China Daily) Hainan province is intensifying efforts to build a comprehensive aerospace industrial cluster at Wenchang international aerospace city, focusing on satellite launches, satellite manufacturing and data chain development, with an ambitious goal to generate 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) in revenue from the facility by 2027.  

The move is part of China's broader efforts to accelerate the development of satellite communications technology.

(Xinhua) Chinese scientists have newly proposed that surplus 40Ar in lunar soil possibly originates from the Earth wind, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  

Conducted by researchers at the NIEER, this latest study offers a new perspective for understanding volatile exchanges within the Earth-Moon system. The study results have been published in the journal Icarus, said the NIEER.

(Xinhua) An evolution driven by data is quietly unfolding within China's robotics landscape, one that is expected to transform the fabric of daily life.  

At a busy training facility in western suburban Beijing, the 1.66-meter-tall humanoid robots were using VR and motion capture system to learn practical skills like warehouse tasks, material sorting, and product packaging.

(China Daily) Chinese automaker BYD is celebrating surging sales in the United Kingdom, thanks in part to London's decision not to hit it with the same hefty tariffs that the United States and European Union have.  

After the Shenzhen-based electric vehicle giant saw its UK sales surge by a staggering 880 percent during September in comparison to the same month a year earlier, the company said the British market has grown to become its largest outside China.

(Xinhua) Chinese-German auto joint venture FAW-Volkswagen held a ceremony to mark its first batch of cars for export rolling off the assembly line at its production base in Changchun, the capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.  

The joint venture between Volkswagen Group and FAW Group said that the batch of 554 Magotan and Sagitar sedans will be shipped to the Middle East as part of its broader push into overseas markets.

(China Daily) Mercedes-Benz will soon roll out a smart driving system in China in partnership with Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta, starting with the electric CLA sedan due this fall.  

The system, jointly developed using Momenta's "Flywheel" large AI model, will enable point-to-point assisted driving on highways, city streets and parking lots, the companies said Wednesday.  

The technology will later expand to other Mercedes models sold in China.

(Xinhua) The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST), a compact fusion experiment device under construction in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, has reached a major milestone with the successful installation of its first key component, the Dewar base, marking progress toward the world's first electricity generation from fusion power.  

Fusion energy, often hailed as the ideal "ultimate energy source," seeks to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the sun.
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