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The People's Bank of China held a symposium with foreign financial institutions on September 21, listening to their opinions and suggestions and studying work related to further optimizing the business environment and promoting high-level opening-up of the financial sector. Pan Gongsheng said China's economic performance is generally stable and improving, and the People's Bank of China will implement an appropriately accommodative monetary policy well, continue to promote high-level financial opening-up, steadily expand two-way opening of financial markets, continuously optimize cross-border payment services, and make the international use of the renminbi more convenient. On the same day, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a national video conference on autumn agricultural production, requiring coordinated efforts on all autumn and winter agricultural production tasks, ensuring balanced supply of food basket products, and continuing to advance comprehensive regulation of hog production capacity. In addition, the 2026 China AI Computing Power Development Assessment Report shows that from 2026 to 2030, the compound annual growth rate of active intelligent agents in China will exceed 150%, and by 2030 the number of active intelligent agents in China will grow to 197 million, with a compound annual growth rate of 151.2%. The global AI computing power market is expected to reach 1.25 trillion US dollars in 2030, of which the Chinese market will reach 150.1 billion US dollars, both four times the 2025 level. TrendForce research shows that US cloud service providers have raised demand for enterprise SSDs, and total enterprise SSD orders in the fourth quarter are expected to surpass the third-quarter high, with prices forecast to continue rising. In company news, Yihao New Materials plans to raise no more than 1.8 billion yuan through a private placement to acquire no less than 78% equity in Mingfeng Electronics; Xingshuai'er is planning to purchase 100% equity in Xiangying New Materials, a PCB cutting tool equipment company, and its shares have been suspended; Galaxy Microelectronics plans to invest 1.078 billion yuan to build a high-end core device industrialization project; Keda Manufacturing plans to invest 4.5 billion yuan to build an integrated project with annual production capacity of 500,000 tons of graphite anode materials; Hubei Yihua plans to invest about 1.152 billion yuan to build a 150,000-ton-per-year lithium iron phosphate project; Jiangbolong spent 800 million yuan to repurchase 2.2906 million shares, completing the repurchase plan; ST Yedao has been placed on file for investigation by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for suspected illegal information disclosure.