Inner Mongolia leaders Wang Weizhong and Bao Gang met Shenzhen Stock Exchange director Sha Yan. Sha said SZSE will deepen practical cooperation with Inner Mongolia to cultivate high-quality listings, broaden corporate financing channels, support expansion of listed companies and bond issuance, and leverage the multi-tier capital market to back priority sectors — modern coal chemical, new energy, computing capacity and modern agriculture/animal husbandry — enabling more local firms to use capital

Iran's Fars news agency cited port officials saying black smoke behind Abbas Port's fish market was caused by an "enemy shell" striking the fisheries wharf and setting multiple civilian fishing vessels ablaze.

Super typhoon Bavi formed on July 2 and has rapidly intensified; its cloud system now exceeds 1,000 km in diameter. Forecasts show Bavi will begin affecting Chinese waters and coasts from July 9 and may make landfall on China's coast on July 11. The main path uncertainty is its proximity to Taiwan — it could pass offshore or land in northern Taiwan before tracking north. Landfall intensity is expected to be very strong; wind and rain impacts will start from July 9, first affecting the southeast coast, waters east of Taiwan and most of the East China Sea. Heavy precipitation will begin on July 9, hitting Taiwan first and then spreading to East China, central China and North China.