Changchun's party chief, Zhang Enhui, unusually warned of "unprecedented difficulties" for the city's economy on July 22, breaking with typical Chinese official reporting. This rare public admission comes as China's Q2 GDP growth slowed to 4.3%, driven by falling private sector and fixed-asset investment.
Twenty-four Chinese and South Korean enterprises, universities, and industry associations have established the Northeast Asia Embodied Intelligence Innovation Cooperation Alliance in Changchun, aiming to deepen international cooperation in embodied intelligence and create a hub for innovation and cross-border computing services.
German Nobel laureate Hartmut Michel, 77, has joined Jilin University in Changchun, northeastern China as a full-time professor at the First Hospital. The 1988 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner will lead research in structural biology, drug development and translational medicine, and help train young scientists. The university described him as a flagship hire under its talent recruitment strategy.
