BEIJING, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This is a report from China SCIO

China’s investment structure continued to improve in the first eight months of 2026, with capital increasingly flowing into technological innovation, advanced industries, and modern infrastructure, despite a 7.2% year-on-year decline in fixed-asset investment.

Wang Guanhua, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and deputy director general of the Department of Comprehensive Statistics of the NBS, made the remarks at a Tuesday press conference.

Wang said the decline was due to multiple factors, including heat waves, typhoons, and floods that disrupted construction in some regions, while greater external uncertainty and ongoing transition from traditional to new growth drivers at home prompted businesses to take a more cautious approach to investment decisions.

“As the economy transitions from one stage of development to another, investment performance should not be judged simply by its growth rate,” she noted. She added that more attention should be paid to the role of investment in supporting economic transformation and upgrading, and its contribution to long-term growth momentum.

Despite the year-on-year decline, China’s fixed-asset investment remained substantial at around 29.3 trillion yuan (US$4.33 trillion) in the first eight months. The changing investment mix, Wang added, points to improving investment quality and efficiency and stronger support for high-quality development.

Investment in innovation gains momentum

Investment in intellectual property products rose 9.2% year on year in the first eight months, accelerating by 0.1 percentage point from the first seven months and accounting for 15.2% of total investment, up 2.3 percentage points from a year earlier.

Specifically, investment in computer software and databases grew 10.9%, while research and development investment increased 7.8%. Together, the two areas accounted for more than 95% of investment in intellectual property products.

Such investment helps turn scientific and technological advances into practical applications while supporting industrial upgrading and productivity growth, Wang noted.

Capital flows into new growth engines

High-tech industry investment grew 5.2% year on year in the eight months through August, accelerating for the third consecutive month.

Specifically, investment in specialized electronic materials manufacturing and integrated circuit manufacturing rose 8.5% and 12%, respectively, as demand for artificial intelligence technologies and applications continued to grow.

In addition, investment in lithium-ion battery manufacturing surged 20.6%, fueled by the expansion of the new-energy vehicle industry and strong demand for energy storage. Meanwhile, equipment purchase investment rose 9.3%, accounting for 19.5% of total investment and reflecting the continued impact of China’s large-scale equipment renewal program.

Major infrastructure projects gather pace

Investment in modern infrastructure is also gathering pace as major projects get underway in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).

Cross-regional transportation corridors, major energy and water conservancy projects, new infrastructure, and urban renewal projects are advancing in an orderly manner, providing stronger support for high-quality development, Wang said.

Significant progress has been made in developing the “six networks” infrastructure, covering water, power, computing, next-generation communications, urban pipelines and logistics. In the first eight months, investment in internet and related services grew 42% year on year, while investment in air transportation, water transportation, and electricity supply increased 16.7%, 14.7%, and 12.7%, respectively.

As of the end of June, more than 70 major computing-power corridors had been built around national computing hubs, according to official data.

“In all, China’s investment mix is shifting toward new growth drivers and becoming better balanced, with continued improvements in investment quality and returns,” Wang said, adding that with various policies continuing to work in concert, the potential of investment will be further unlocked to support high-quality economic and social development. 

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DentScribe releases Benchmark 1.0 and a companion white paper to show dentists what polished AI prose can hide.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The patient has left. The next patient is waiting. The AI-generated note sounds professional. But did it keep the distal-buccal caries separate from the lingual fracture? Did it remember that the crown was deferred? Did it record the second anesthetic carpule as requested, or as administered?

DentScribe today released Dental AI SOAP Note Benchmark 1.0 and the companion white paper Beyond Transcription to help dentists answer those questions before trusting an AI scribe with their clinical record.

Dentists do not examine patients section by section. A symptom appears early. The clinician checks a tooth, changes the probing depth after a correction, pauses to answer a question, discusses another tooth, and returns later with a treatment decision. Important facts are scattered across the encounter. A useful AI scribe must gather them, preserve their relationships, and place them into a structured note without filling gaps with assumptions.

Put the Final Note on Trial

Can it keep the map. A condition must stay with the right tooth, surface, periodontal site, or region.Can it preserve what happened. A treatment that was discussed, requested, deferred, or planned cannot become completed care.Can it handle a correction. A corrected 5 mm measurement cannot remain 6 mm or drift to another site.Can it respect uncertainty. A possible diagnosis or conditional biopsy must not become a confirmed diagnosis or scheduled procedure.Can it ignore the wrong story. A comment about another patient must not enter the current patient’s note.

Benchmark 1.0 provides ten focused cases and two source-based, scattered-conversation cases. The focused cases isolate difficult documentation problems. The source-based cases retain the original order of de-identified clinical excerpts, including interruptions, partial statements, late additions, corrections, and unrelated clinical stories.

The instructions are deliberately simple: give each product the same encounter and one standard request, keep the first output, and compare the note with the expected clinical content. A pass requires every essential fact, no invented or conflicting clinical detail, and an organization a dentist can use.

“The most dangerous note is not the one that looks obviously bad. It is the polished note that quietly changes what the dentist found or what the patient agreed to,” said Dr. Vinni K. Singh, DDS, AFAAID, Founder and CEO of DentScribe. “We created Benchmark 1.0 so dentists can test the final note instead of being impressed by the transcription.”

“A dentist may mention the same tooth five times before the clinical picture is complete. The hard problem is assembling those fragments without losing a surface, inventing a conclusion, or confusing discussion with care delivered,” said Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Ph.D., Board Chair of DentScribe. “That is the difference this benchmark is designed to reveal.”

Why the White Paper Matters

Beyond Transcription walks through the clinical distinctions that fluent summaries often erase. A generalized periodontal finding can contain localized exceptions. A tooth can have an existing restoration, new decay on one surface, a fracture on another, a recommended crown, and a lower-cost alternative. Each fact must remain connected to the right tooth and the right status.

The paper expands the discussion across restorative care, periodontal charting, mixed dentition, endodontics, implants, orthodontics, soft-tissue examinations, medication status, and after-care. It also shows why full conversations matter: the finished SOAP note is assembled from evidence that arrives throughout the visit, not dictated as a finished report.

DentScribe does not publish its proprietary prompts or engineering methods. It publishes the cases, expected content, and scoring rules dentists need to compare products on the same visible result.

Availability

DentScribe believes it is the best technology for creating dental SOAP notes. Benchmark 1.0 gives customers a direct way to test that position. Dental practices and DSOs can request the benchmark and white paper, run the cases against competing products, and bring the hardest examples to a live DentScribe demonstration.

Book a live demonstration: https://www.dentscribe.ai/book-a-demo

Multimedia: DentScribe Benchmark 1.0 cover and benchmark case-to-structured-note graphic available from DentScribe.

About DentScribe

DentScribe is an AI platform for dental documentation and practice intelligence. It listens to natural chairside conversation, creates comprehensive dental SOAP notes, and publishes them into leading practice management systems. DentScribe CoPilot surfaces unresolved treatment and follow-up opportunities from the clinical record, while DentScribe GPS organizes daily opportunities for the morning huddle. DentScribe also supports voice perio charting, patient after-care summaries, specialist reports, and treatment coordinator notes. Founded by practicing dentist Dr. Vinni K. Singh in Sunnyvale, California, DentScribe helps dental teams complete documentation and act on the clinical information already present in the practice.

Learn more: https://www.dentscribe.ai/

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Shull adds senior advisers, led by Dubai-based former Goldman Sachs and AQR executive, Dr. Sarah Savage

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The ReThink Group, the hedge fund performance and talent consultancy founded by Denise Shull, announced its expansion into Dubai and Athens.

Leading the expansion are Dubai-based Dr. Sarah Savage and Athens-based Constantine “CT” Theodossiou. Larry McGonegal also joins, working out of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Savage held talent leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and AQR Capital Management and later advised private equity and hedge fund clients through her Dubai-based firm, Ethoset. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychological Research from King’s College London and an M.Sc. in Neuroscience.

“Amidst the avalanche of AI, I look forward to helping ReThink clients optimize their subjective data sets of conviction and intuition in the moments that matter most,” Savage said.

Theodossiou has more than 20 years of experience in global financial markets, including roles at Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan. He speaks four languages, including French and Italian, and says, “I joined ReThink to help others benefit from the Shull Method exactly as I did: untangling market intuition from personal emotion to act with absolute clarity.” 

McGonegal is also a market veteran with more than two decades of experience in trading, market-making, liquidity, and risk management. His focus is FX markets, and he is also a former client of ReThink.

“The appointments of Sarah, CT and Larry should contribute to the development of a wider, deeper pool of trading talent. The investing industry has yet to fully benefit from what neuroscience knows about risk perception,” Shull said. “This team will bring the disruptive perspective of the Shull Method into offices around the globe.”

About The ReThink Group 

Founded in 2004 by Denise Shull, AM, author of Market Mind Games, The ReThink Group applies neuroscience and performance psychology to help hedge fund founders, portfolio managers, traders, senior investment executives, and executive teams improve their results and performance in high-stakes environments. 

Website: https://therethinkgroup.net 

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