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Global Times: ‘Two sessions’ inspire global confidence in China’s economic prospects

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BEIJING, March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Multiple international observers have expressed confidence in prospects of Chinese economy during this year’s “two sessions,” and they noted that the world’s second-largest economy’s high-quality development through innovation will inject fresh impetus into world economic growth amid mounting global uncertainties.

The “two sessions” are the annual meetings of China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), and the top political advisory body, the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

China is targeting an economic growth rate of around 5 percent in 2025, according to the Government Work Report submitted to the NPC for deliberation during the “two sessions.” The report also outlines an array of other key development goals for this year, including a surveyed urban unemployment rate of around 5.5 percent, over 12 million new urban jobs, and a roughly 2 percent increase in the consumer price index.

“Achieving this year’s targets will not be easy, and we must make arduous efforts to meet them,” the Government Work Report stressed.

“These figures send a more positive and clear policy signal, boosting confidence among consumers, entrepreneurs, foreign enterprises, investors, and the whole market. The government is expected to release forceful measures in both reform and opening-up as well as economic development to sustain economic growth,” Ji Mo, chief China economist of Singapore-based DBS Bank, told the Global Times on Monday.

Sena Yao Voncujovi, an Africa–China policy analyst at Development Reimagined, an independent International Development consultancy, said China’s GDP growth target of around 5 percent comes at a critical moment, with the country’s stable development serving as a key anchor for global economic stability.

“China renewed its commitments and focus on tech, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, as well as green development. This is very positive for not only China but overall global development,” Voncujovi told the Global Times on Monday.

Bright prospects

Despite the adverse impacts brought about by the external environment and the continued challenges facing the economy, foreign experts expressed confidence that China can achieve this year’s economic development goals given supporting conditions and fundamental trends.

Radhika Desai, professor of the Department of Political Studies of University of Manitoba in Canada, told the Global Times that as the world’s largest developing country, China focuses on both the pace and quality of growth, making sure that it actually enhances not only the standard of living but also quality of life, gaining strong economic growth momentum.

“China has, and will continue, to pursue technological advancement in a whole range of fields,” she said. Desai made reference to Chinese AI company DeepSeek, noting that “It’s a massive achievement for a Chinese startup to create a large language model that could outperform its Western counterparts. It is a model of technological development that benefits all of humankind and is itself enriched by doing so.”

China demonstrates a policy blueprint for developing nations to boost economy through domestic spending apart from exports while expanding their financial programs. China’s established policy framework delivers useful guidance about handling relationships between domestic growth and financial security alongside technological advancement, said Muhammad Zamir Assadi, editor of China Desk at Internews Pakistan.

The 2025 “two sessions” in China present substantial prospects for developing countries to join their economic power and technological breakthroughs.

China’s GDP grew by 5 percent year-on-year in 2024, ranking among the world’s fastest-growing major economies and continuing to contribute about 30 percent to global economic growth, official data showed.

“In the past 40-plus years, China did everything right,” Scott Rozelle, co-director of Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, told the Global Times, speaking highly of China’s achievements in marketization and new technologies.

“The Chinese market is very competitive and made things very efficient. There’s only one way to grow. That’s by productivity, growth, new technologies,” Rozelle said.

China has achieved rapid development through reform and opening up since 1978. Today, the country continues to push forward comprehensive reform with firm determination and stepped-up efforts to boost its high-quality development and share opportunities with the rest of the world.

This year, the “two sessions” also underscored China’s firm commitment to expanding high-standard opening-up and stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment.

“Regardless of changes in the external environment, we should remain steadfast in our commitment to opening up,” said the Government Work Report. “We should steadily expand institutional opening up and take the initiative to open wider and advance unilateral opening up in a well-ordered way, to promote reform and development through greater openness.”

“China’s emphasis on sharing the fruits of its innovation with the world, and the Global South in particular, is very important. For example, in the tech and AI fields, where the development of technologies has been very expensive, China’s support and ability to leverage its innovation and provide them at affordable rates to developing countries such as African countries, is something that, from a Global South perspective, is very positive and welcome,” Voncujovi said.

Denis Depoux, global managing director at Germany’s strategy consulting firm Roland Berger, said that China is and will remain an important market for many multinational companies.

Looking ahead to 2025, Depoux called the concept of new quality productive forces a key driver of China’s economic growth. “This reflects China’s determination to modernize its industries and shift toward value-added economic leadership,” he told the Global Times.

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JAMS Launches AI for Enterprise Job Scheduling: JAX and JAMS MCP, on the Model You Choose

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A new AI agent and an open-standard connector let IT teams query, diagnose, and manage automation in plain language, on the model they choose, with operational data staying inside their own network

LONDON, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JAMS Software, an orchestration solution for scheduled and event-driven automation, today announced the general availability of two AI capabilities for enterprise job scheduling: JAX, an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client, and JAMS MCP, a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol standard that brings JAMS into external AI coding tools. Both capabilities ship at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web.

Automation environments grow faster than the teams that run them. Jobs multiply across SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, SAP, JDE, and Banner, and when one fails, finding the root cause often means searching several consoles at once, frequently outside business hours. At the same time, IT leaders carry pressure to adopt AI while staying accountable for where operational data goes. JAX and JAMS MCP close both gaps together.

Full details on how JAX and JAMS MCP work, including the control model behind every action, are available at jamsscheduler.com/product/ai.

JAX is an AI agent that runs inside the JAMS Web Client. It finds jobs, troubleshoots failures, and answers how-to questions in plain language, with each response grounded in the JAMS user guide and checked against a built-in glossary. JAX acts only when a user asks it to. Reads flow freely, and every write action pauses for the user’s explicit approval before it runs. JAX does not learn between sessions, and conversations are not retained on the server.

JAMS MCP is a connector, built on the open Model Context Protocol standard, that brings JAMS into the AI tools engineering teams already use, including Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex. Users query jobs, investigate failures, and manage runs in plain language without leaving their tool.

Both capabilities run inside the customer’s own network and act as the signed-in user, with that user’s exact JAMS permissions. There is no elevated AI account: whatever a user cannot do in the JAMS interface, JAX and JAMS MCP cannot do on that user’s behalf. Every JAX and MCP operation is recorded in its own dedicated log, and changes made through the JAMS API land in the JAMS audit trail like any other change. Customers choose their own AI model, whether a commercial provider such as OpenAI or Anthropic or a model running entirely on their own hardware, and JAMS never trains on customer data. In the current release, neither feature edits or deletes a job, folder, schedule, or agent definition. For teams that must keep operational data within a defined boundary, JAX runs on a local model entirely inside the customer’s own network, so nothing leaves at all.

“Adopting AI usually means giving something up, most often visibility into where your data goes,” said Pete Hegland, Chief Executive Officer of JAMS Software. “We built JAX and JAMS MCP so that trade does not have to happen. Every action runs as the signed-in user, every change waits for approval, and the model itself can run entirely inside your own network.”

“IT teams across the United Kingdom and EMEA tell us the same thing: they want the benefit of AI without losing sight of where their data goes,” said Greg McLaughlin, Account Executive for EMEA at JAMS Software. “JAX and JAMS MCP let them keep operational data inside their own network and still get answers in plain language. That combination is what makes this practical for the teams I work with.”

JAX and JAMS MCP are available now to all JAMS Web customers across the United Kingdom and EMEA, with no separate licence, SKU, or additional cost. AI-assisted creation of new jobs and workflows from a plain-language description is on the roadmap for a future release, gated by the same approvals and permissions as every other action.

Learn how JAX and JAMS MCP work at https://jamsscheduler.com/product/ai.

Fast facts

JAX is an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client for job scheduling and workflow automation.JAMS MCP is a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol standard, for Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex.Both act as the signed-in user, with that user’s exact JAMS permissions, and there is no elevated AI account.Customers choose the AI model, including a local model that runs entirely inside their own network.JAMS never trains on customer data.Both are available now at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web.

About JAMS Software

Founded in 1987, JAMS Software is an orchestration solution that helps IT teams centralize, automate, and manage scheduled and event-driven jobs across complex, hybrid environments. Over 850 customers rely on JAMS to run their automated workloads. JAMS Software, LLC is headquartered at 108 Patriot Drive, Suite A, Middletown, DE 19709.

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Video: CNPC offers green chemical answer

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BEIJING, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from chinadaily.com.cn:

Located on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the Tarim 1.2 MTA Phase II Ethylene Project and its supporting green and low-carbon demonstration facility of PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, are offering a new example of China’s low-carbon industrial transformation.

Watch the video to discover how CNPC is exploring a cleaner and more circular future for the industry.

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Shanghai Electric showcases embodied intelligence robot matrix and AI-native smart factory solutions at WAIC 2026

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Featuring humanoid robots with 41 degrees of freedom, pipe‑inspection robots with ±1mm positioning accuracy, and 51 industrial‑grade AI agents

SHANGHAI, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Operations in high-end equipment manufacturing often involve confined spaces, complex objects, and fine manipulation tasks that demand sustained and stable precision. At the recent 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance (WAIC 2026), Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 02727, SSE: 601727) showcased its comprehensive portfolio of embodied intelligence solutions tailored to a range of industrial scenarios.

Themed “AI for All: Smart Squad, Shining Without Limits,” Shanghai Electric highlighted its capabilities across embodied AI robots, robot core components, and AI-native smart factory solutions, demonstrating end-to-end capabilities spanning complete robot systems, critical parts, industrial software, and smart factory architecture.

“The true value of embodied intelligence lies in understanding real industrial tasks: combining the strength, precision, and stability of machines with human experience and judgment to drive a genuine paradigm of ‘machine-assisted, human-machine collaboration,'” said Wang Chunlei, deputy general manager of the Robotics Business Unit at Shanghai Electric Automation Group.

Shanghai Electric’s robotics portfolio covers five key industrial scenarios: connector insertion, electrical operations, flexible sorting, intelligent assembly, and pipe processing. Highlights include:

“SUYUAN” bipedal humanoid robot: With 41 degrees of freedom for enhanced mobility, it is equipped with a multimodal visual sensing system on the head and torso, along with a dual-battery hot-swap system. It is well-suited for inspection, material handling, and assembly tasks.”TUOYUAN” industrial wheeled humanoid robot: Powered by an embodied intelligence foundation model and force-position hybrid control, it is capable of multi-spec connector insertion, material sorting, and loading/unloading of automotive sheet metal parts.”Mermaid” bionic wheeled humanoid robot: Capable of autonomously identifying buttons, knobs, and air switches, it generates real-time operation paths.Autonomous pipe inner-wall chamfering robot: Designed for confined spaces, it can position and process thousands of hole edges with accuracy within 1 millimeter while transmitting data in real time.

Shanghai Electric also showcased its portfolio of core components ranging from power-output to end effectors. Among them, the planetary roller screw offers more than three times the load capacity of traditional ball screws, while the DexHand dexterous hand is designed to meet diverse gripping and manipulation requirements.

Shanghai Electric launched 51 AI models and agents under its “StarCloud Intelligent Manufacturing” series across three domains: R&D and design, production and manufacturing, and operations and maintenance—covering critical equipment processes such as process optimization and wind power facility maintenance.

These industrial agents are embedded in robotic decision-making systems and the operational logic of AI-native smart factories, transforming industrial expertise into digitized, reusable capabilities. They support production-line scheduling, quality inspection, and predictive maintenance, driving the evolution of manufacturing systems from experience-driven to data-driven operations.

Shanghai Electric also released the “AI-Native Smart Factory Technology White Paper,” proposing an active evolution architecture that enables real‑time, closed‑loop optimization of production data, giving the factory self‑perception, self‑decision, and self‑execution capabilities. Built on First Principles, the AI‑native smart factory vertically integrates process flows, industrial software, agents, and smart equipment to dismantle traditional hierarchies while horizontally bridging data silos. The architecture features three core layers: the AI factory brain as the “control center,” industrial agents and embodied robots as the “execution network,” and the physical twin as the “digital mirror.”

Leveraging its deep industrial expertise and comprehensive solution capabilities, Shanghai Electric will continue to drive the implementation of AI in industrial settings, tackle technical challenges facing embodied intelligence in complex scenarios, accelerate the large‑scale deployment of AI‑native smart factories, and deliver replicable solutions across diverse manufacturing environments.

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