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China-Europe freight trains shorten travel time via the "Middle Corridor": Xinhua News Agency reported from Istanbul on August 4th that Turkish Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Enver Úrskult announced that China-Europe freight trains have shortened their journey time from China to Turkey via the "Middle Corridor" to 15 days. The "Middle Corridor," also known as the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor, is a multimodal transport route originating in China, passing through Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and extending to Turkey and European countries. Due to factors such as customs clearance efficiency and Caspian Sea weather, travel time has often exceeded 20 days. The goal is to reduce travel time from Alashankou to Kars to 10 days.

NVIDIA adjusts graphics driver support policy: On August 1, NVIDIA announced that GeForce/Quadro graphics cards based on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures will stop Game Ready driver support in October 2025, but will continue to receive quarterly security updates until October 2028. At the same time, NVIDIA will extend Windows 10 driver support for all RTX graphics cards (including RTX 20, RTX 30, RTX 40, and RTX 50 series) to October 2026.

Xizhi Technology releases the results of optical interconnection and optical switching technology: On July 27, 2025, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Xizhi Technology demonstrated the results of the two major product lines of "photonic computing + photonic network". The LightSphere X jointly launched by it, BiRen Technology and ZTE, the world's first distributed optical interconnection and optical switching GPU supernode solution, won the 2025 SAIL Award. In addition, Xizhi Technology also jointly launched the first xPU-CPO optoelectronic co-packaging prototype system in China with Suiyuan Technology, and the optical interconnection and electrical switching supernode solution cooperated with Muxi was also publicly unveiled for the first time.

Microsoft server software suffers global cyberattack: On July 22, 2025, Wall Street News reported that Microsoft's core product SharePoint document system was attacked by large-scale hackers. SharePoint is a document management and collaboration platform provided by Microsoft for enterprises, and is used by thousands of enterprises, institutions, and government departments around the world. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities to remotely control SharePoint servers, access file systems, and execute malicious code. Microsoft has released the first round of patches, but some security gaps are still being repaired. About 10,000 companies around the world that have deployed local versions of SharePoint servers are at risk.

Telecom Birzha upgrades Moscow data center transmission network: According to cnews on July 11, Telecom Birzha announced the completion of a large-scale modernization upgrade of its IP/MPLS transmission network between Moscow data centers. The upgrade adopted Huawei's dual IP/MPLS core ring topology, upgraded the network core uplink to 100 Gigabit, and also updated the Juniper MX edge router group. The network core throughput increased 10 times compared with the previous year, and the total Internet uplink bandwidth increased to 1Tbit/s.

China launches the world's first 6G field test network: On July 15, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and China Mobile jointly announced that the world's first 6G field test network was officially launched and connected to the network in Henan, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China. The link rate was measured to exceed 50Gbps, which is 100 times the current 5G speed. The 6G test network uses terahertz band communication + AI semantic algorithm to achieve multi-frequency and multi-layer channel linkage for the first time. The old 4G network can also reach the 6G experience level after AI compression and reuse.

The 3rd National Cyber ​​Defense and Security Exhibition was held: From July 1 to 3, 2025, the 3rd National Cyber ​​Defense and Security Exhibition (CYDES 2025) was held at the Putrajaya International Convention Center in Malaysia. As the highest-level cybersecurity event in ASEAN, it attracted participation from government departments, industry experts and world-renowned cybersecurity companies from many countries. China Silk Road Group led a group of Chinese cybersecurity leaders to present their latest achievements in independent innovation, practical application and international cooperation in cybersecurity.

Many countries and regions have introduced new trade regulations: from July 1, Kyrgyzstan banned the import, sale and use of e-cigarettes; Uzbekistan lifted all export restrictions except for 86 categories of strategic materials such as natural gas, fertilizers, and meat; Thai medical device manufacturers with medium and high risk products must comply with GMP standards, etc. In addition, the United States has upgraded its steel and aluminum tariffs, and imposed a 50% tariff on eight categories of steel appliances from June 23. It has also expanded the scope of technology export controls to China, and phased out some technology restrictions on China. The first round of lists will be announced in mid-July.

Summer Davos Forum focuses on global economy and trade: On June 25, the 2025 Summer Davos Forum opened in Tianjin, with more than 1,700 guests from more than 90 countries around the world attending. Premier Li Qiang said in his speech at the opening ceremony that China's economy continues to grow steadily, which will provide strong support for the accelerated recovery of the world economy. Hassan Khatib, Egypt's Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, also said at the forum that Egypt is working hard to reduce trade costs and balance trade with Europe.