The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China's manufacturing regulator, put out the first foreign-language draft of the country's mandatory Electric Vehicle Safety Requirements standard for public review, with comments due Nov. 4. Exporters seeking overseas certification typically had to translate the Chinese standard and reconcile it with each target market's rules, resulting in long certification periods and high communication costs. EV Industry Policy says the official text will let China's requirements enter international mutual recognition certification directly. A companion draft would make automatic emergency braking (AEB), which brakes a vehicle on its own before a collision, mandatory on heavy trucks, covering pedestrians as well as vehicles ahead. Factory-fitted AEB came standard on 27.5% of heavy trucks in 2025, per Gaogong Intelligent Vehicle Research Institute data.

Guizhou, a southwestern province that hosts a national computing hub, plans to invest 50 billion yuan ($7.5 billion) in communication networks and other information infrastructure from 2026 to 2030, a provincial telecom official said. The money serves "East Data, West Computing," the national program that routes data from eastern economic centers to data centers in western provinces. Under that program, network speed decides how quickly that distant computing responds. By 2030 Guizhou targets latency of 8 milliseconds to the Greater Bay Area around Guangzhou and Shenzhen and 18 milliseconds to the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing region. Latency is the delay as data travels.