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China's memory chip sector is undergoing an earnings supercycle. Driven by robust AI demand and Samsung's planned 20% Q3 DRAM price hike, storage manufacturer Jiangbolong pre-announced a staggering H1 net profit surge of over 62,000% YoY.
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SASAC designated 28 SOEs as demonstration units for its world-class enterprise initiative. Their ~60 listed subsidiaries form a regulator-defined cohort—the cleanest starting universe to which the reform framework most directly applies. This installment maps and analyzes the list.
Market Brief
China's NDRC has committed $295B to national AI compute infrastructure — a single-policy capex outlay larger than any US hyperscaler's annual budget. What this means for global GPU demand, sovereign compute economics, and the investability of Chinese AI.
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Beijing didn't just block another product. It refused to place orders for chips Washington had already approved. That shift from rejection to substitution is what matters.
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Four Chinese SOE industries trade at PB discounts above 20% versus private peers: petrochemicals, steel, construction, and transportation — also the highest-yielding sectors. This installment maps where the discount concentrates and what the geography reveals about policy-mandate pricing.