BEIJING, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The “Chain Expo Launchpad” of the 4th China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo (Chain Expo) officially opened on June 22 at the China International Exhibition Center (Shunyi Hall) in Beijing.

As a continuing “premiere stage” for global innovation outcomes fostered by the Chain Expo, this year’s Launchpad is themed “New Moves, New Beginnings Along the Chain.” From June 22 to 25, it will host over 30 dedicated launch sessions covering the expo’s “six chains and one exhibition area” — namely the Digital Tech Chain, Advanced Manufacturing Chain, Green Agriculture Chain, Healthy Living Chain, Clean Energy Chain, and the Supply Chain Services Exhibition Area. These events will transform “new products, new technologies, new processes, new scenarios, new ecosystems, and new supply chains” from conceptual ideas into tangible on-site demonstrations, connectable business scenarios, and actionable cooperation opportunities.

This year’s Chain Expo introduces embodied intelligence as a new variable for on-site real‑world services. During the Launchpad opening ceremony, a humanoid robot named “Silicon‑based Partner” took the stage for a guided introduction and received an official accreditation. The launch events on the first day followed the logic of the supply chain: they featured key materials, processes, and chain‑supplementing technologies for green, low‑carbon and advanced manufacturing; smart solutions built around digital infrastructure and computing power; and industry‑level solutions from the supply‑service side that brought standards, platforms, and cross‑border service interfaces together. The sessions were conducted simultaneously online and offline, combining video presentations, physical interactions, and on‑site commentary, jointly opening a new chapter in the coordinated development of industrial and supply chains.

Launch and Departure — “Chain‑based Innovation” Becomes a Hot Topic

It is understood that from the first day through subsequent sessions, “innovation” will remain the core buzzword throughout the event. According to statistics, the proportion of launch content involving “AI” and intelligence has risen significantly, covering everything from underlying sensors and industrial computing power to industry applications driven by large models. At the same time, “foundational topics” such as green agriculture standards and traceability, customs facilitation and cross‑border financial connectivity, and zero‑carbon parks and security resilience solutions also occupy prominent slots. Technology, innovation, and supply chains are deeply integrating through collaborative innovation, driving cutting‑edge technologies to evolve from conceptual ideas into practical tools for all industries.

As a new platform for showcasing and deepening international industrial and supply chain collaboration, the concentrated launch phase of the “Chain Expo Launchpad” will run through June 25, and will also be broadcast live to online audiences via the Xinhuanet live streaming room.

BEIJING, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The “Chain Expo Launchpad” of the 4th China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo (Chain Expo) officially opened on June 22 at the China International Exhibition Center (Shunyi Hall) in Beijing.

As a continuing “premiere stage” for global innovation outcomes fostered by the Chain Expo, this year’s Launchpad is themed “New Moves, New Beginnings Along the Chain.” From June 22 to 25, it will host over 30 dedicated launch sessions covering the expo’s “six chains and one exhibition area” — namely the Digital Tech Chain, Advanced Manufacturing Chain, Green Agriculture Chain, Healthy Living Chain, Clean Energy Chain, and the Supply Chain Services Exhibition Area. These events will transform “new products, new technologies, new processes, new scenarios, new ecosystems, and new supply chains” from conceptual ideas into tangible on-site demonstrations, connectable business scenarios, and actionable cooperation opportunities.

This year’s Chain Expo introduces embodied intelligence as a new variable for on-site real‑world services. During the Launchpad opening ceremony, a humanoid robot named “Silicon‑based Partner” took the stage for a guided introduction and received an official accreditation. The launch events on the first day followed the logic of the supply chain: they featured key materials, processes, and chain‑supplementing technologies for green, low‑carbon and advanced manufacturing; smart solutions built around digital infrastructure and computing power; and industry‑level solutions from the supply‑service side that brought standards, platforms, and cross‑border service interfaces together. The sessions were conducted simultaneously online and offline, combining video presentations, physical interactions, and on‑site commentary, jointly opening a new chapter in the coordinated development of industrial and supply chains.

Launch and Departure — “Chain‑based Innovation” Becomes a Hot Topic

It is understood that from the first day through subsequent sessions, “innovation” will remain the core buzzword throughout the event. According to statistics, the proportion of launch content involving “AI” and intelligence has risen significantly, covering everything from underlying sensors and industrial computing power to industry applications driven by large models. At the same time, “foundational topics” such as green agriculture standards and traceability, customs facilitation and cross‑border financial connectivity, and zero‑carbon parks and security resilience solutions also occupy prominent slots. Technology, innovation, and supply chains are deeply integrating through collaborative innovation, driving cutting‑edge technologies to evolve from conceptual ideas into practical tools for all industries.

As a new platform for showcasing and deepening international industrial and supply chain collaboration, the concentrated launch phase of the “Chain Expo Launchpad” will run through June 25, and will also be broadcast live to online audiences via the Xinhuanet live streaming room.

SYDNEY, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  Manhattan Associates Inc. (Nasdaq: MANH), the global leader in native AI-empowered supply chain commerce solutions, today announced a major addition to ActivePlatform™: Manhattan Marketplace, a shared ecosystem where customers and partners discover and deploy intelligent agents, extensions, and accelerators for Manhattan’s Active solutions.

All agents and extensions published to the Marketplace run natively on ActivePlatform, inheriting the same deterministic spine and operational guardrails as our core software. By leveraging Agent Foundry™, our partners can build intelligent solutions that connect directly into our ecosystem, ensuring seamless interoperability and agentic innovation without the need for complex, resource-heavy integration projects. This creates a unified, open space where customers can discover partner-built extensions that target specific industries, workflows, and regions.

“Innovation is no longer a solo effort; it is about bringing the collective brilliance of our entire community into one shared, secure environment,” said Sanjeev Siotia, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Manhattan Associates. “Manhattan Marketplace is the engine for that collaboration – enabling our partners and customers to build on the same foundation and benefit from each other’s best ideas. It is designed to help our ecosystem accelerate speed-to-value while tapping into a broader, shared community of innovation.”

“We’re excited about the flexibility and innovation potential that Manhattan’s AI Agents, Agent Foundry, and Marketplace ecosystem bring to the market. As customers continue looking for faster ways to enhance and extend their operational environments, we see significant opportunity to leverage the Marketplace to deliver practical, customer-specific solutions that accelerate execution and create measurable business value,” said Sandeep Patel, Co-Founder, Veridian.  

Manhattan’s platform has always been rooted in absolute openness, and the Marketplace extends this principle into the AI era. This unified ecosystem ensures that Manhattan, its partners, and its customers all build agents on common, deterministic ground. Partners are already developing for the Marketplace, and customers will gain access to it in upcoming quarters, with additional content and capabilities added over time.

ABOUT MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES

Manhattan Associates is a global technology leader, providing supply chain and omnichannel commerce solutions with unmatched AI capabilities. We design, build and offer best-in-class, AI-powered, cloud-based solutions that drive resilience and efficiency for businesses. We enable enterprises to uniquely unify front-end sales with back-end supply chain execution.

Our commitment to innovation, cloud-native platform and API-first architecture create simpler experiences and faster paths to value for our customers. We empower them to preempt and react to emerging trends and global disruptions with technical expertise and operational confidence, transforming challenges into competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.manh.com.

SYDNEY, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  Manhattan Associates Inc. (Nasdaq: MANH), the global leader in native AI-empowered supply chain commerce solutions, today announced a major addition to ActivePlatform™: Manhattan Marketplace, a shared ecosystem where customers and partners discover and deploy intelligent agents, extensions, and accelerators for Manhattan’s Active solutions.

All agents and extensions published to the Marketplace run natively on ActivePlatform, inheriting the same deterministic spine and operational guardrails as our core software. By leveraging Agent Foundry™, our partners can build intelligent solutions that connect directly into our ecosystem, ensuring seamless interoperability and agentic innovation without the need for complex, resource-heavy integration projects. This creates a unified, open space where customers can discover partner-built extensions that target specific industries, workflows, and regions.

“Innovation is no longer a solo effort; it is about bringing the collective brilliance of our entire community into one shared, secure environment,” said Sanjeev Siotia, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Manhattan Associates. “Manhattan Marketplace is the engine for that collaboration – enabling our partners and customers to build on the same foundation and benefit from each other’s best ideas. It is designed to help our ecosystem accelerate speed-to-value while tapping into a broader, shared community of innovation.”

“We’re excited about the flexibility and innovation potential that Manhattan’s AI Agents, Agent Foundry, and Marketplace ecosystem bring to the market. As customers continue looking for faster ways to enhance and extend their operational environments, we see significant opportunity to leverage the Marketplace to deliver practical, customer-specific solutions that accelerate execution and create measurable business value,” said Sandeep Patel, Co-Founder, Veridian.  

Manhattan’s platform has always been rooted in absolute openness, and the Marketplace extends this principle into the AI era. This unified ecosystem ensures that Manhattan, its partners, and its customers all build agents on common, deterministic ground. Partners are already developing for the Marketplace, and customers will gain access to it in upcoming quarters, with additional content and capabilities added over time.

ABOUT MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES

Manhattan Associates is a global technology leader, providing supply chain and omnichannel commerce solutions with unmatched AI capabilities. We design, build and offer best-in-class, AI-powered, cloud-based solutions that drive resilience and efficiency for businesses. We enable enterprises to uniquely unify front-end sales with back-end supply chain execution.

Our commitment to innovation, cloud-native platform and API-first architecture create simpler experiences and faster paths to value for our customers. We empower them to preempt and react to emerging trends and global disruptions with technical expertise and operational confidence, transforming challenges into competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.manh.com.

BEIJING, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On June 23, two indices gauging prices of yak and Tibetan sheep in northwest China’s Qinghai Province were released to the public to strengthen branding and discourse power of local animal husbandry sector.

The indices, named Xinhua • Qinghai Yak Price Index and Xinhua • Qinghai Tibetan Sheep Price Index, were jointly released by Qinghai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Qinghai Branch of Xinhua News Agency and China Economic Information Service (CEIS).

Dubbed the “world’s capital of yaks” and the “hometown of Tibetan sheep in China,” Qinghai is home to about 34 percent of the world’s total yak population and over 40 percent of China’s total Tibetan sheep stock.

Currently, Qinghai’s yak and Tibetan sheep sectors are in dire need of efficient, transparent pricing mechanisms to better bridge production and sales and improve the sectors’ discourse and price-deciding powers, noted Gu Changwei, head of Qinghai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Tracking market supply, demand and sector trends in real time, the indices can guide local farmers to schedule their slaughtering pace, stabilize market expectations, and leverage digital and standardized achievements to tell the story of the industry, highlighted Gu.

As a pragmatic means to facilitate digital transformation, the indices are expected to unlock the value of data to benefit high-quality development of Qinghai’s animal husbandry sector, stressed Sun Aidong, head of Qinghai Branch of Xinhua News Agency.

Including sub-indices for live animals and carcasses, the indicators with base periods set on February 27, 2024 and base points at 1,000 points reveal that by mid-June 2026, Qinghai’s closely interrelated yak and Tibetan sheep prices have gone out of a trough and entered a new round of upward trend.

Despite this, shocks from imported frozen meat and insufficient consumer awareness of the value of green plateau food led to poor transmission of prices across the industrial chain and necessitated branding to bolster high-quality development of Qinghai’s yak and Tibetan sheep sectors.

Leveraging the expertise and data of “Xinhua Indices” platform, CEIS is striving to inject new impetus into building Qinghai’s green and organic farm produce and livestock product base by developing a price index regime for local characteristic products, said Yang Mu, vice president of CEIS.

Original link: https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/351088.html

BEIJING, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On June 23, two indices gauging prices of yak and Tibetan sheep in northwest China’s Qinghai Province were released to the public to strengthen branding and discourse power of local animal husbandry sector.

The indices, named Xinhua • Qinghai Yak Price Index and Xinhua • Qinghai Tibetan Sheep Price Index, were jointly released by Qinghai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Qinghai Branch of Xinhua News Agency and China Economic Information Service (CEIS).

Dubbed the “world’s capital of yaks” and the “hometown of Tibetan sheep in China,” Qinghai is home to about 34 percent of the world’s total yak population and over 40 percent of China’s total Tibetan sheep stock.

Currently, Qinghai’s yak and Tibetan sheep sectors are in dire need of efficient, transparent pricing mechanisms to better bridge production and sales and improve the sectors’ discourse and price-deciding powers, noted Gu Changwei, head of Qinghai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Tracking market supply, demand and sector trends in real time, the indices can guide local farmers to schedule their slaughtering pace, stabilize market expectations, and leverage digital and standardized achievements to tell the story of the industry, highlighted Gu.

As a pragmatic means to facilitate digital transformation, the indices are expected to unlock the value of data to benefit high-quality development of Qinghai’s animal husbandry sector, stressed Sun Aidong, head of Qinghai Branch of Xinhua News Agency.

Including sub-indices for live animals and carcasses, the indicators with base periods set on February 27, 2024 and base points at 1,000 points reveal that by mid-June 2026, Qinghai’s closely interrelated yak and Tibetan sheep prices have gone out of a trough and entered a new round of upward trend.

Despite this, shocks from imported frozen meat and insufficient consumer awareness of the value of green plateau food led to poor transmission of prices across the industrial chain and necessitated branding to bolster high-quality development of Qinghai’s yak and Tibetan sheep sectors.

Leveraging the expertise and data of “Xinhua Indices” platform, CEIS is striving to inject new impetus into building Qinghai’s green and organic farm produce and livestock product base by developing a price index regime for local characteristic products, said Yang Mu, vice president of CEIS.

Original link: https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/351088.html

TAIPEI, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Led by the Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government, the StartUP@Taipei program brought 10 Taipei-based AI companies to South Korea this month to participate in NextRise 2026, one of Asia’s largest innovation and startup events.

In addition to exhibiting at NextRise, the delegation met with key players in Korea’s innovation ecosystem, including startup hub MARU 360, the Goyang City Government in Gyeonggi Province, and Z Venture Capital Corporation (ZVC), the investment arm of Naver. The participating companies showcased AI applications across retail, financial services, enterprise operations, data platforms, and brand growth.

According to Jin Sang-hoon, Director of Korean accelerator and investment firm Tap Angel Partners:

“Taipei companies have developed mature technologies that are highly complementary to the Korean market. We welcome more Taiwanese companies to enter Korea and provide their services here.”

The participating companies demonstrated how Taipei’s AI sector is evolving beyond software tools to become critical infrastructure for global business operations.

In the retail and consumer sector, KABOB CLOUD has deployed its smart retail solutions through local partners to major Korean retailers including emart, Lotte Mart, Homeplus, GS25, and Daiso, covering more than 1,000 stores. As Korean retailers continue expanding internationally, replicating operational efficiency and customer experience across markets has become a growing challenge.

Global brand expansion is another priority for Korean enterprises. Awesomeart Digital Marketing has helped international brands achieve over 70% market share of voice within six months and has served more than 500 brands. VGV Media Asia, meanwhile, has worked with more than 700 clients across nine markets, including global brands such as Samsung, UNIQLO, and iHerb.

Giftpack, another company focused on global brand operations, has built a network spanning 42 countries, serving more than 1,400 enterprise clients while connecting over 8,000 factories worldwide. The company’s AI Agent is designed not as a chatbot, but as a business infrastructure layer that helps enterprises manage customer relationships, corporate gifting programs, and cross-border supply chains at scale.

Together, these companies highlight the strong alignment between Taipei’s AI capabilities and the international growth strategies of Korean brands and enterprises.

In enterprise operations, PlusBlocks Technology has deployed its AI Digital Employee platform across more than 800 locations, reducing decision-making time from days to seconds. Enterprise data has also emerged as a critical battleground. Metabiz’s AI Enterprise Data Platform currently serves over 200 corporate clients across Asia while maintaining customer retention rates above 80%.

Another participating company, IHH, focuses on enterprise communications infrastructure, providing video collaboration solutions to organizations in finance, insurance, healthcare, and government sectors. As AI agents and robotics become increasingly integrated into business environments, real-time collaboration between humans, AI systems, and autonomous agents is rapidly emerging as a new growth opportunity.

In the financial sector, NOX AI, which has raised US$3.6 million in funding, has expanded its services across Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The company believes the next stage of fintech competition will be defined not by transaction speed, but by democratizing investment intelligence through AI, enabling institutions and individuals alike to access sophisticated analytical capabilities.

Matthew Cho, Co-CEO of Korean venture capital firm Pacemakers, commented:

“Taipei companies have demonstrated remarkable internationalization capabilities. Some have already established business operations in Korea, while others have successfully expanded into Japan and Southeast Asia. We see strong potential for Taipei and Korean companies to jointly pursue larger opportunities across Asia and global markets.”

The Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government, noted that Taipei’s innovation ecosystem is increasingly moving beyond technology development toward cross-border business services and enterprise solutions. Through continued partnerships with Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and other strategic markets, Taipei aims to help local companies work more closely with international corporations, investors, and local governments, contributing to the next stage of AI-driven growth across Asia.