State media uniformly led with Xi Jinping's 'three sentences' guiding the 15th Five-Year Plan, emphasizing high-quality development and technological innovation. This narrative saturated outlets from early morning, with identical headlines across CCTV, People's Daily, and Xinhua, framing the plan's launch. By afternoon, the focus shifted to AI's role in H2 economic work, again under Xi's economic thought. External sources diverged: SCMP covered DeepSeek's V4 model jolting Silicon Valley and the C919's high-altitude test flight, while Hong Kong FP reported on record rainfall and a banned book list controversy. SecretChina highlighted a super typhoon warning and a Shandong truck explosion. The day saw a persistent split between domestic developmental messaging and external coverage of disasters, tech competition, and rights issues.