Beijing, July 11 — China's Premier Li Qiang met North Korea's Premier Pak Tae-song. Li said China will align development strategies with North Korea, steadily expand bilateral economic and trade ties, promote connectivity, and deepen cooperation in healthcare and education. Both sides pledged to strengthen people-to-people exchanges and intensify strategic coordination amid a complex international environment to jointly defend their legitimate rights and international fairness.

July 10 — The People’s Bank of China hosted a seminar on the evolution of the international monetary system. PBOC Party secretary and governor Pan Gongsheng presided. Zhu Min, dean of Tsinghua University’s National Institute of Financial Research and former IMF deputy managing director, presented research on international monetary system evolution, metrics for currency internationalization and digital currency development, and exchanged views with attendees. Senior PBOC and State Administration of Foreign Exchange officials attended, including PBOC vice governors and SAFE director Zhu Hexin, vice governors Lu Lei and Zou Lan, and SAFE deputy directors Li Bin and Liu Bin; PBOC departments, branches and affiliated units joined at main and sub-venues.

SK Hynix CEO Guo Luzheng said the U.S. has not yet decided on the shortlist of candidate sites for future wafer fabs.