China's Ministry of Commerce spokesperson stated on Nov 18 that the US modified patent invalidation rules under "national security" pretext, violating IP obligations and discriminating Chinese enterprises. China will monitor and take measures to safeguard their legitimate rights.

On Nov 18, 2025, the "China Europe Railway Express Development Report (2025)" was released at the 2nd forum in Xi'an. It covers the train's development, stats (118600 trains, 11.7m TEUs to 26 European countries as of Oct 2025), links to Belt and Road, and contributions to economic vitality and global shared future.

The Ministry of Commerce implements the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session to promote China's e-commerce development. From Jan-Oct 2025, e-commerce boosts consumption, supports industrial digital transformation, and expands opening-up via digital consumption, industrial e-commerce and Silk Road e-commerce, with various consumption and transaction growths.

In October (driven by National Day & Mid-Autumn Festival), China's consumer market maintained steady growth. NBS data shows Oct retail sales of consumer goods rose 2.9% YoY to 4.63 trillion yuan; Jan-Oct up 4.3%. Commodity, service, new consumption and rural consumption all grew steadily with detailed data.

On Nov 18-19, China and the Netherlands held consultations on Anshi Semiconductor in Beijing. The Dutch side suspended the relevant administrative order, which China welcomes. However, obstacles remain, and both sides agree to cancel administrative intervention to support enterprises' legal consultations, aiming to restore global semiconductor supply chain stability.

Content details China-ASEAN trade: 2025 China-ASEAN Week held, 5 years as each other's largest trading partners, 2024 trade $982.1B (16.9x 2002). 2025 first 10 months trade $862.7B (+8.2%). ASEAN became Zhejiang's largest market in 2025 first 10 months; Zhejiang's new energy vehicle exports to ASEAN up 1.9x. ASEAN is China's top agricultural/food partner for 8 years, with China-ASEAN FTA 3.0 advancing cooperation.

Li Qiang’s speech at the 24th SCO Heads of Government Meeting (Moscow, 2025) highlights SCO’s role in global governance, leveraging its advantages (Shanghai Spirit, practical experience, mechanisms), focusing on development, security, innovation, and supporting Kyrgyzstan for the 25th anniversary.

Leaders and representatives attended an SCO meeting presided by Russian PM Mishustin. The meeting discussed SCO's role in global governance, focused on development/security and innovation, approved the 2026-2035 development strategy. China proposed initiatives like SCO Development Bank, and parties signed joint communiqué and cooperation documents.

On Nov 17-18, 2025, the 24th SCO Prime Ministers' Meeting was held in Moscow. It praised China's 2024-2025 SCO chairmanship, supported Kyrgyzstan's 2025-2026 tenure, approved cooperation roadmaps, and promoted multi-field cooperation (economy, security, culture, etc.). The next meeting will be in Tajikistan in 2026.

On November 16, Yining Customs Technical Center successfully passed the "two in one" review of CNAS and CMA, covering two sites (Yining, Horgos), 73 categories (2209 parameters, 1147 expanded, +136%). Its self-inspection rates reach >96% for bulk/key commodities and 100% for some key items.

On November 18, the General Administration of Customs announced that all customs supervision preparations for the scheduled smooth closure of Hainan Free Trade Port are basically ready, with software and hardware conditions for customs clearance met.

The article covers how customs (Ningbo, Yangzhou, Shenyang, Shenzhen) use AI tools (Yongzhi AI agent, smart glasses, chatbot, multimodal AI) to boost smart supervision (recycled metals), passenger clearance efficiency, and departure tax rebate services, enhancing efficiency and risk control.

On November 19, foreign ministry spokesman Maoning stated at a regular press conference that China suspended Japanese aquatic products import as Japan failed to provide promised technical materials, and Japanese Prime Minister's wrong Taiwan-related remarks caused Chinese public indignation, making such products have no market in China.

According to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, this article presents bank foreign exchange settlement/sale (yuan and USD) and customer foreign-related income/payment (yuan and USD) data for October 2025 and January-October 2025.

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) released Oct 2025 forex data; Li Bin answered questions on China's forex market which operated steadily with balanced supply-demand, stable cross-border capital flows, high goods trade fund inflow and narrowed service trade/investment income outflows.

Dai Shangxian (Swiss Center chairman) notes Swiss enterprises accelerate diversified market布局 amid global trade uncertainty, with China market more prominent. Swiss firms have strong China investment意愿, nearly half list China as top 3 investment markets. Sino-Swiss sustainable development/innovation cooperation has potential; Switzerland leads global innovation, China top 10 in 2025. 2025 marks 75th Sino-Swiss diplomatic anniversary. Swiss Center has helped 500+ Swiss firms enter China, participated in CIIE 8 consecutive years, this year's exhibition scale hits record. CIIE is key platform for Swiss firms to enter China market.

On November 17, the 4th China-Germany High-Level Financial Dialogue was co-chaired by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and German Deputy Prime Minister & Finance Minister Klinbeir in Beijing. Both sides reached mutually beneficial consensus, agreeing to strengthen economic, trade and financial cooperation to promote bilateral relations and world economic stability. As the world's 2nd and 3rd largest economies, China and Germany aim to ease trade tensions. The dialogue is one of three high-level cooperation mechanisms between the two countries, held every two years alternately.

The third round of China-Switzerland FTA upgrade negotiations was held in Beijing from Nov 11-14, with in-depth consultations on goods, service trade, investment, etc., making positive progress. The original FTA signed in 2013 took effect in 2014, and upgrade negotiations launched in 2024.

On November 12th, Ling Ji (Deputy Minister of Commerce of China) and Peter Burke (Irish Minister of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment) co-chaired the 14th China-Ireland Economic and Trade Joint Committee in Dublin. Both sides reviewed bilateral economic and trade relations, emphasized complementary advantages, and expressed willingness to deepen cooperation in digital economy, green energy, biomedicine, etc. Ireland welcomes Chinese investment and joint innovation.

The article discusses adhering to the effective market-proactive government combination (proposed in the 15th Five-Year Plan) to deepen economic reform, boost high-quality development, strengthen domestic circulation, build a unified market system, and form a flexible yet well-managed economic order for high-level socialist market economy construction.