Guangdong vehicles have for the first time been allowed to enter Hong Kong's urban areas. The Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles (Entry into Urban Area) scheme commenced on 23 December.
The National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) has issued regulations governing the information disclosure practices of banks and insurance companies in relation to asset management, to strengthen the protection of investors' legitimate rights and interests.
The National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) has proposed for the first time that insurance companies establish asset-liability management (ALM) departments.
The scale of the life reinsurance business of Qianhai ReinsuranceCo (QHR) has declined since 2023, due to the downsizing of financial reinsurance business, which in turn was because of changes in regulations and market demand.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the first batch of L3 conditional autonomous driving licences, marking a transition from the testing to the early-stage commercialisation of autonomous vehicles.
New energy vehicle (NEV) ownership in China has continued to climb this year, with sales reaching 14.8m units in the first 11 months, up 31.2% year on year. Alongside this surge, NEV insurance premiums have expanded rapidly.
What began as a strategic investment has turned into one of China's most closely watched corporate fallouts.
The establishment of a new entity, Shanghai Xingqi Hengtai Enterprise Management Partnership (Shanghai Xingqi), on 12 December 2025, in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone with Shanghai-based insurance and banking shareholders has sparked talk that the new company would serve as the vehicle for the financial rescue of Shanghai Life Insurance.
The "Measures for the Asset-Liability Management of Insurance Companies (Draft for Comments)", released by the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), establish asset and liability regulatory indicators and clarify indicator thresholds and add some monitoring indicators.
Finance alone is not the answer to closing to China's Nat CAT-related economic losses, according to Mr Beat Strebel, Swiss Re's chief executive of Reinsurance China and country president for China.