State outlets carried the National Day holiday into a third day of synchronized copy, moving from red-tourism and patriotism explainers to the identical 'Chasing Light | I Am Here' portrait of troops and workers on duty and an explainer on Xi's reception address for the plan's opening year. By afternoon the loop settled on identical history-framed commentary urging the United States and China to move toward each other.

Outside that circuit, coverage tracked post-Washington economic and security friction: calls in Washington for continued engagement on rare earths alongside reports on tungsten dominance, a widened lithium vein and deepening RISC-V ties, and a planned US NMESIS deployment on Japan's island closest to Taiwan, plus a Panama audit naming former port regulators and CK Hutchison executives.

Holiday travel was reported elevated on its third day, while Caixin noted Evergrande liquidators seeking HK$19.15 billion from associates of Xu Jiayin.