July 10 — At a press briefing on APEC 2026’s Digital and AI ministers’ meeting and Digital Week, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology deputy minister Xiong Jijun said MIIT is willing to work with other economies to use the events as a forum for sharing policy and practice and to promote practical cooperation in digital and AI across the Asia‑Pacific, supporting openness, inclusion and win‑win collaboration and injecting digital momentum into an open, dynamic, resilient and pea

China's National Energy Administration issued the Energy Sector Energy-Saving and Carbon Reduction Action Plan (2026–2028), calling for R&D on low-, zero- and negative-carbon frontier technologies. The plan prioritizes clean, high-efficiency use of fossil fuels and large-scale renewables, ramps up strategic frontier R&D to accelerate breakthroughs in supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power generation and CCUS, and targets flexible, high-efficiency wind/solar-to-hydrogen production, large-scale safe hydrogen storage, green hydrogen synthesis catalysis, low-carbon synthesis processes and long-distance hydrogen storage and transport.

Japan's finance minister Katayama said she is closely monitoring economic indicators and market conditions.