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The Politburo met Friday to review the report on the seventh round of central inspections of the current Central Committee, endorsing the round's results while ordering 'real' rectification and sustained anti-corruption pressure. The readout is a discipline document — and the standing early-warning system for which ministries are in trouble.

The Supreme People's Court has published the inner workings of China's most-watched abuse case, showing how lay judges established that an unmarried girlfriend counted as 'family' under the criminal law. It is a quiet but consequential signal about who the abuse statute protects.

A new State Council directive asks companies to cushion workers before rolling out AI — advance notice, 'unemployment buffer periods', and a prudently slower pace in labour-intensive industries. It is Beijing's most explicit signal yet that AI-driven job loss is something to be managed, not just endured.