Amidst the dual trends of global energy structure transformation and the explosive growth of the cold chain logistics industry, the high-performance energy-saving materials sector is emerging as a new focal point for capital and industry. Recently, Shandong Hualan New Material Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shandong Hualan"), an innovative practitioner in China's polyurethane insulation materials field, announced the successful completion of its 20 million RMB angel round financing.This round of financing signifies that the company's overall strength and development prospects have gained recognition from professional investment institutions, injecting strong momentum into accelerating the company's industrial layout and deepening its technological moat.

January 27th report. Heng Hui Security During investor relations activities, the company stated that its "4,800-ton annual ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber project" has made substantial progress, with 2 production lines achieving stable mass production and successfully completing the first batch of order deliveries. The remaining production lines are being accelerated for installation and commissioning. Of the company's planned new total capacity of 12,000 tons, the remaining 7,200 tons of capacity will be dynamically adjusted and initiated opportunistically based on the overall strategic rhythm and market demand, ensuring that capacity release is precisely matched with market demand.

At a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on January 22, spokesperson He Yongqian, when answering relevant questions, stated that the European Union recently issued a document mandating member states to exclude so-called "high-risk suppliers" in 18 critical sectors including energy, transportation, and ICT services management. China expresses serious concern regarding this. Chinese enterprises have long operated lawfully and compliantly in Europe, providing high-quality products and services to the European public, and significantly promoting the development of Europe's telecommunications and digital industries. However, the EU, without any factual basis, has designated some Chinese enterprises as high-risk suppliers, restricting their participation in 5G construction. We firmly oppose the EU's discriminatory actions against Chinese enterprises and its erroneous practice of politicizing economic and trade issues and overstretching the concept of national security.

On January 21st, the Information Office of the Shandong Provincial People's Government held a routine policy briefing, inviting leading officials from the Shandong Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to interpret the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Urban Development." The "Implementation Opinions" require "cultivating growth points for green buildings, developing ultra-low energy consumption and low-carbon buildings on a large scale, and increasing government procurement support for the development of green building materials." Next, Shandong will adhere to the main line of urban connotative development, accelerate urban green transformation, and build beautiful cities.

Yantai, Shandong, January 21st (Xinhua) -- Haiyang City in Yantai, Shandong Province, is home to China's only commercial aerospace sea launch port. In recent days, the construction of China's first sea-based liquid rocket launch and recovery test platform is being accelerated. At the Oriental Aerospace Port in Haiyang, Yantai, more than 150 workers are working overtime day and night, aiming to complete the platform construction and begin debugging and drills in about two weeks, around February 5th. Around the Spring Festival, a mainstream domestic commercial liquid rocket will undergo launch and recovery tests here, marking China's first sea-based launch and recovery test of a liquid rocket.   Currently, the Oriental Spaceport, as the only sea launch port in China, has sent 137 satellites into space. Led by the Oriental Spaceport, Shandong Province has built a complete industrial chain ecosystem of "sea launch leading, star-rocket manufacturing collaboration, and aerospace application expansion," forming a commercial aerospace industry layout with Yantai, Jinan, and Qingdao as the core, and Taian, Dezhou, and other places as "multi-point support."

According to customs statistics, in 2025, China's foreign trade imports and exports reached 45.47 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.8%. Among them, exports amounted to 26.99 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.1%; imports stood at 18.48 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.5%.

Li Lecheng stated to Xinhua News Agency that there will be an emphasis on the "layout" of future industries. We will further strengthen forward-looking layout and overall planning, accelerate the establishment of investment growth and risk-sharing mechanisms for future industries, and promote new breakthroughs in future manufacturing, future information, future materials, and more. We will focus on fields such as quantum technology, humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, deep-sea and polar exploration, and 6G, enhancing technological breakthroughs, product development, enterprise cultivation, and ecosystem construction.

On the evening of January 11, local time, while returning to Washington from Florida on the Air Force One, U.S. President Trump spoke to the accompanying media personnel about Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory, and once again claimed, "Greenland is defended only by dog sleds—whatever means necessary, the United States must take Greenland, a deal should be made for Greenland."

According to a report by The New York Times on January 11, local time, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has initiated a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell regarding matters related to the renovation of the Federal Reserve's Washington headquarters.

The 2026 National Civil Aviation Work Conference was held today, revealing that the civil aviation industry achieved an overall profit of 6.5 billion yuan in 2025, building on the turnaround in 2024 with further improvement in operational efficiency. The entire industry completed a total transportation turnover of 164.08 billion ton-kilometers, passenger transport of 770 million person-times, and cargo and mail transport of 10.17 million tons, with year-on-year increases of 10.5%, 5.5%, and 13.3%, respectively.

The notice from the Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments on implementing the green consumption promotion action proposes promoting the recycling and reuse of waste items. It advocates for the establishment of a three-tier recycling system consisting of "recycling points + transfer stations + regional sorting centers," with a focus on strengthening the layout of recycling outlets for waste furniture, appliances, electronic products, and textiles. Furniture, appliance, and automobile manufacturers are encouraged to establish reverse logistics systems to legally and compliantly reuse components. Market entities are encouraged to recycle waste items through online appointment platforms, trade-in programs, and vehicle replacement schemes, providing intelligent recycling bins and appointment-based door-to-door recycling services, and promoting the construction of a nationwide unified recycling service platform. Enterprises are supported in undertaking projects for the high-value utilization of renewable resources, and financial institutions are encouraged to increase green credit support for recycling and utilization projects.

According to the China Trade Remedies Information Network, the Indian Ministry of Finance's Department of Revenue issued a notice stating that it has accepted the affirmative preliminary anti-dumping recommendation made by the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry on November 14, 2025, regarding low-ash metallurgical coke originating from or imported from China, Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia. It has decided to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on the products from these countries for a period of six months, as follows: USD 130.66 per ton for China, USD 73.55 per ton for Australia, USD 119.51 per ton for Colombia, USD 82.75 per ton for Indonesia, USD 60.87 per ton for Japan, and USD 85.12 per ton for Russia. The products in question are metallurgical coke with an ash content of less than 18%, excluding ultra-low phosphorus metallurgical coke, which has a phosphorus content as high as 0.030%, with a maximum particle size of 30 millimeters and allowing a particle tolerance of 5%, used for manufacturing ferroalloys. This measure takes effect from the date of publication of this notice in the official gazette.

Recently, Gansu International Logistics Group Supply Chain Company has reached a direct purchase cooperation agreement for PVC with Qinghai Salt Lake Haina Chemical Co., Ltd. and Qinghai Salt Lake Magnesium Co., Ltd., subsidiaries of China Salt Lake Industrial Group. The first batch of 2,500 tons of PVC products has partially been distributed at the Lanzhou Zhongchuan North Station Logistics Park and will subsequently be sold to pipe processing enterprises in surrounding areas. Another portion will be transported via the railway trunk line to Zhejiang for sale in the East China region.

At the 2025 Photovoltaic Industry Annual Conference held today, Yang Xudong, Director of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated in his speech that the photovoltaic industry will enter a critical phase in 2026. The Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on several key tasks, including further strengthening capacity regulation, deeply promoting the construction of a unified national market, and enhancing the management of photovoltaic manufacturing projects. By using market-oriented and legal methods, they aim to facilitate the orderly exit of outdated production capacity and accelerate the achievement of dynamic balance in capacity. They will also improve the price monitoring mechanism, thoroughly implement the "Anti-Unfair Competition Law," strictly crack down on illegal pricing, false marketing, and other illegal activities, curb disorderly low-price competition, and focus on companies with abnormal pricing, strengthening product quality supervision and inspections. For enterprises with substandard quality, false power ratings, or infringements of intellectual property rights, they will enhance monitoring and tracking for resolution. Meanwhile, they will reinforce innovation-driven approaches, improve standard systems, and urge the industry to further enhance self-discipline.

Statistics, for the first 11 months,China's export of electromechanical products14.89 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.8%, accounting for 60.9% of our total exports. Among them, automatic data processing equipment and parts amounted to 1.31 trillion yuan, a decrease of 1.3%; integrated circuits amounted to 1.29 trillion yuan, an increase of 25.6%; automobiles amounted to 896.91 billion yuan, an increase of 17.6%. During the same period, the export of labor-intensive products amounted to 3.7 trillion yuan, a decrease of 3.5%, accounting for 15.1% of our total exports. Among them, clothing and accessories amounted to 987.26 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.7%; textiles amounted to 931.33 billion yuan, an increase of 1.7%; plastic products amounted to 677.6 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.5%. The export of agricultural products amounted to 670.21 billion yuan, an increase of 2%.

General Administration of CustomsAccording to the released data, in November 2025, the total value of China's goods trade imports and exports was 3.9 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.1% year-on-year, accelerating by 4 percentage points compared to the previous month. As of November, China's goods trade imports and exports have maintained year-on-year growth for 10 consecutive months. From a cumulative perspective, in the first 11 months of this year, the total value of imports and exports was 41.21 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.6% year-on-year, with the growth rate remaining consistent with the first 10 months.

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron will make a state visit to China from December 3 to 5. During the visit, China and France will issue a joint statement on strengthening global governance, cooperating to address global climate and environmental challenges, continuing to promote cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, agricultural and food exchanges and cooperation, as well as the situations in Ukraine and Palestine.

On December 3, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian hosted a regular press conference. A reporter asked about the recent visit to Russia by Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office. Can the spokesperson provide details about the visit and comment on the visit? Lin Jian stated that on December 2, Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office, co-chaired the 20th round of China-Russia strategic security consultations in Moscow with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council. They also met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and both sides conducted comprehensive and in-depth communication on major issues concerning bilateral relations and the strategic security interests of the two countries, reaching new consensus and enhancing strategic mutual trust. Both sides agreed to fully implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries and to promote China-Russia relations and strategic cooperation to a higher quality level.

On December 1, Huntsman Corporation announced that its polyurethane plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is currently experiencing an unplanned shutdown, which is expected to have a negative impact of approximately $10 million on the adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2025. The larger of the plant's two MDI production lines is affected, and production is expected to resume in mid-December. As a result of this shutdown, management currently expects the adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2025 to be at the low end of the $25 million to $50 million range announced on November 6, 2025. Excluding the impact of this shutdown, the quarterly performance would align with previous expectations.

November 27, according to Global Times, foreign media such as France's Le Monde and AFP reported that the French Presidential Palace, the Élysée Palace, announced on the 26th local time that President Macron will conduct a state visit to China in early December. The Élysée Palace stated in a declaration that during this visit, Macron will arrive in Beijing and Chengdu successively. This visit will explore major topics within the France-China comprehensive strategic partnership and conduct consultations on several major international issues and areas of cooperation to address the global challenges of our time. The statement also mentioned that Macron will be committed to "promoting an agenda seeking cooperation and balance in the economic and trade fields," which will become the core issue during France's presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) in 2026.