State outlets carried the National Day canon into a fourth day, cycling identical copy three times. Morning editions ran the 'people's leader' portrait of patriots praised by the general secretary across CCTV, People's Daily, Beijing Daily and others, paired with unity-for-rejuvenation commentaries. By midday the loop switched to the governance story 'the people are the country,' then by afternoon to an explainer decoding Xi's harvest greetings, with grain-harvest and logistics-efficiency fillers alongside.
English-language state titles kept a second track on a thriving holiday cultural and tourism market, echoed by Xinhua's travel-boom report.
Beyond the loop, friction after Washington lingered: the commerce ministry said U.S.-pushed overcapacity and forced-labor items failed to gain consensus at the G20 trade meeting, while Hong Kong press revisited Xi-Trump praise of the Flying Tigers as a history dilemma for Taipei.