China Business Roundup: Housing Funds, Insurance Pools, and Shifting Supply Chains

In China in August 2026, several business and policy developments unfolded at once. The government broadened the use of housing provident funds to encourage housing consumption and advanced plans for sectoral insurance pools. At the same time, Microsoft reportedly accelerated plans to remove Windows from government agencies, and Google was reported to be ending Pixel production in China. Etihad announced it would expand its flights to China, and luxury brands continued to perform well there.

Other headlines covered a Jordanian copycat brand that competed with Nike in China, Bridgewater's China operations holding up during a market rout that hurt other quantitative funds, and the Korean brand Matin Kim opening its first stores in China, Vietnam and Senegal. Valeria Moy wrote about reviewing trade data with China.