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12:41

                            2025 China Development Forum: Sincerely welcome international capital to return to China
                        
                            According to CCTV News, the two-day China Development Forum 2025 Annual Meeting was held today at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. This is the first large-scale national international forum held after the two sessions, attracting more than 100 foreign representatives to participate. The number of multinational companies participating in the conference for the first time this year hit a new high. Han Wenxiu, deputy director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Commission in charge of daily work and director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said that in recent years, we have turned pressure into motivation and promoted positive progress in scientific and technological self-reliance. We will adhere to the guidance of science and technology and innovation-driven, develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, vigorously develop emerging industries, actively cultivate future industries, and actively use digital technology, green technology, and artificial intelligence to transform and upgrade traditional industries. Recently, we have seen that many international investors are optimistic about the Chinese economy and Chinese assets. We sincerely welcome international capital to return to China, cultivate the fertile soil of Chinese investment, and share the dividends of China's development.
                        
12:40

                            Lan Fuan: Coordinate tax incentives, government procurement, investment funds and other tools to cultivate and expand emerging industries and future industries
                        
                            Minister of Finance Lan Fuan said at the "China Development Forum 2025 Annual Meeting" that we should accelerate the cultivation and development of new quality productivity. The central government will strengthen support for education, science and technology, and talents, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, continue to increase fiscal investment in science and technology, improve the funding allocation and management review mechanism, and fully support the key core technology research. We will coordinate the use of tax incentives, government procurement, investment funds and other policy tools to promote the "artificial intelligence +" action, cultivate and expand emerging industries and future industries, and upgrade and transform traditional industries. Enterprises are the main body of innovation and entrepreneurship, and we will improve various policies to benefit and assist enterprises, implement policies and measures to promote the development of the private economy, and help enterprises solve practical difficulties and better innovate and develop. 
                        
09:21

                            China Development Forum 2025 Annual Meeting held in Beijing
                        
                            This morning (March 23), the 2025 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum, hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council and organized by the China Development Research Foundation, kicked off in Beijing. This two-day forum is themed "Fully Unleashing Development Momentum and Promoting Stable Growth of the Global Economy". Chinese and foreign guests will exchange and discuss topics such as macroeconomic policies and economic growth, reforms to stimulate new growth momentum, boosting consumption and expanding domestic demand, leading the development of new quality productivity with scientific and technological innovation, and inclusive development of artificial intelligence. More than 100 foreign representatives from international organizations, Fortune 500 multinational companies, and the global business community will attend this year's annual meeting.
                        
10:38

                            Deep-sea robot breakthrough allows freedom of movement in extreme pressures
                        
                            According to CCTV News, a team from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has successfully developed a small deep-sea robot that performs well in deep-sea environments such as the Mariana Trench and can swim, glide, crawl and perform other motion states. The research team uses innovative chiral bistable structures and shape memory alloy technology to enable the robot to operate efficiently in the 10,000-meter deep sea. After 6 years of research and development, this small robot is not only low-cost and highly adaptable, but is also expected to play an important role in deep-sea scientific research and resource development in the future. Researchers are promoting the combination of deep-sea flexible robots and AI to open up new space for deep-sea intelligent operations.
                        
10:22

                            Huatai Securities: Optimistic about robot products and technological breakthroughs in 2025
                        
                            Huatai Securities Research Report stated that on March 19, Beijing time, NVIDIA's GTC conference was officially held. In addition to hardware product updates, NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun introduced the company's comprehensive layout in the software ecosystem at the conference. AI applications are at an important point in the transition from Agentic AI to Physical AI. The three major elements of data permissions, computing power, and software ecology are accelerating breakthroughs, and we are optimistic about the acceleration of AI application development in 2025. The two complex scenarios of industry and robots have become the breakthrough focus of various manufacturers, and we are optimistic about the product and technology breakthroughs of the two scenarios in 2025.
                        
03:35

                            The UAE has pledged a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment in the US, focusing on AI, semiconductors, energy, and manufacturing
                        
23:48

                            The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 2.1%, Micron Technology (MU.O) fell more than 8%, ASML (ASML.O) fell 2.6%, Qualcomm (QCOM.O) fell 2%, and Nvidia (NVDA.O) fell 1.6%.
                        
16:31

                            Ministry of Commerce: Humanoid robots and other embodied intelligent products have become a new highlight of digital consumption
                        
                            The head of the Ministry of Commerce's E-commerce Department said that from January to February 2025, my country's e-commerce continued to release its endogenous driving force, innovation potential, and open vitality, achieving a good start. Artificial intelligence and old-for-new exchanges drove steady growth in online goods. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, physical goods grew by 5%. According to business big data monitoring, embodied smart products such as humanoid robots have become a new highlight of digital consumption. More than 90% of provinces and cities across the country cooperated with platforms to carry out old-for-new exchanges, and three types of digital products such as mobile phones grew by 17.9%. Supply-side optimization has driven rapid growth in online services. With the Spring Festival intangible cultural heritage and the expansion of visa-free entry, online tourism grew by 35.9%, of which intangible cultural heritage tourism grew nearly fourfold. High-quality supplies such as movies and concerts drove online entertainment to grow by 52.5%.
                        
15:45

                            The Future Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Forum will release AI Innovation Block 2.0 and other achievements
                        
                            Reporters learned from the press conference of the parallel forum of the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting that the Future Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Forum will be held on the afternoon of March 29. The forum will focus on the construction of an innovative AI ecosystem and release various initiatives and actions in space ecology, model application, embodied intelligence, computing resources, and talent factors, including the unveiling of the AI Innovation Block 2.0 and the Embodied Intelligence Research Institute.
                        
13:43

                            Taobao Vision's latest XR experience unveiled at AWE
                        
                            Reporters learned that Taobao Vision's latest "virtual home experience cabin" was unveiled at AWE. This is the only XR virtual-real interactive experience at AWE this year, combining spatial computing and artificial intelligence technology, and its future application in the e-commerce field is full of imagination.
                        
13:12

                            A-share chip stocks continued to weaken, with Chuangyao Technology falling more than 10%, Cambrian, Aojie Technology, Espressif Technology, Broadcom Integrated, Minxin Shares, Rockchip and many other stocks all falling more than 5%
                        
12:59

                            Shenzhen's artificial intelligence industry receives more than 2 billion yuan in support
                        
                            According to Shenzhen, the "Shenzhen Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer City (2025-2026)" was released on March 3. In response to the "Action Plan", Shenzhen Hi-Tech Investment Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Shenzhen Investment Holdings, a state-owned enterprise in Shenzhen, plans to launch special ABS products in key industry tracks such as AI and robots, and reserve more than 2 billion yuan of special comprehensive financial support for scientific and technological innovation enterprises that are in line with Shenzhen's new quality productivity direction, serving the comprehensive financial needs of all links in the industrial chain.
                        
12:55

                            Over 2 billion yuan! Shenzhen's artificial intelligence industry receives strong support again
                        
                            In response to the "Action Plan for Shenzhen to Accelerate the Construction of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer City (2025-2026)" released on March 3, Shenzhen Hi-Tech Investment Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shenzhen Hi-Tech Investment"), a subsidiary of Shenzhen Investment Holdings, a municipal state-owned enterprise, plans to launch special ABS products in key industry tracks such as AI and robotics, reserving more than 2 billion yuan of special comprehensive financial support for scientific and technological innovation enterprises that are in line with Shenzhen's new quality productivity direction, and serving the comprehensive financial needs of all links in the industrial chain.
                        
11:24

                            Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: The "Implementation Plan for Digital Transformation of the Pharmaceutical Industry" will be released soon
                        
                            The State Council Information Office held a regular policy briefing of the State Council at 10 a.m. on March 21. He Yaqiong, Director of the Department of Consumer Goods Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that with the development of information technology and the accelerated iteration and upgrading of artificial intelligence, a good foundation has been provided for the rapid development of traditional Chinese medicine in the next step. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is about to release the "Implementation Plan for Digital Transformation of the Pharmaceutical Industry", which clarifies the goals and paths of the integration and development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry and the new generation of information technology. First, in terms of technical support for digital transformation, specifically targeting the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine production, by organizing digital and intelligent system solutions for medicines, including the research and development of some key technical products, a system solution that conforms to the quality management standard system of traditional Chinese medicine has been created. Second, in terms of typical selection of digital and intelligent transformation, we mainly focus on the specific needs of pharmaceutical industrial enterprises such as quality improvement, cost reduction, efficiency improvement, green, safety, and compliance, find "small incisions", and solve any problems. We will support the construction of more than 20 digital and intelligent traditional Chinese medicine production lines or smart factories, cultivate a group of digital and intelligent transformation enterprises in the traditional Chinese medicine industry, and release more than 20 typical scenarios for the application of digital and intelligent technologies in the traditional Chinese medicine industry.
                        
11:06

                            Science and Technology Innovation Artificial Intelligence ETF (588730) fell more than 3%
                        
                            The Science and Technology Innovation Artificial Intelligence ETF (588730) fell by more than 3%, falling for three consecutive days. The latest price hit a 10-day low. The transaction volume was 46.5853 million, an increase of 37.92% from this time yesterday. The shares increased by 119.59% in the past month, an increase of 199 million.
                        
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