☕️ Good morning, friends,

knowing you, we’d bet you love to travel. One fascinating social experiment would be to start a trip across China tomorrow.

How about a train ride alongside 219 million fellow passengers? Or a highway journey with 70 million other vehicles (14 million of them EVs)?

In total, the Ministry of Transport expects 2.36 billion trips during “Golden Week.”

P.S. If you do come, stay away from wells of any kind. A woman in Fujian fell into an old, overgrown shaft during a walk and survived 54 hours by clinging to the wall — in the company of countless mosquitoes and water snakes.

Eventually, a drone spotted her and she was rescued. Photos here.

MARKETS

Highlights

⚖️ Uncertainty weighs on Asia’s markets

Asian stocks in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul started the week lower, with sentiment weighed by the risk of a US government shutdown that could delay the release of key labor data such as the Non-Farm Payrolls and cloud the Fed’s rate outlook.

In China, fresh stimulus pledges and gains in tech shares offered some support, but overall sentiment stayed subdued. Beijing also announced CNY 500 billion in new funding to spur investment.

TOP BIT

🏥 “Hospital in Your Pocket”: JD.com launches AI hospital

At its tech conference in Beijing, JD.com unveiled “AI Hospital 1.0.” The platform functions like a digital clinic — with an AI family doctor, pharmacist, and nutritionist on your smartphone.

The goal: to make medical help available anytime, anywhere.

The Details

🤖 AI medical team on call: Family doctor, pharmacist, and nutritionist in your phone, supported by …