State media opened the day continuing 9 September's choreography around Xi Jinping's Teachers' Day greetings ahead of the 42nd Teachers' Day, with People's Daily, Xinhua, CCTV and others repeating calls to nurture youth for rejuvenation.
Mid-morning the lead abruptly changed to a foreign-flagged cargo ship fire at Beihai shipyard in Qingdao. Central outlets carried Xi's instruction to search for the missing, handle aftermath and investigate accountability, while SCMP raised the toll through the day to at least 20 dead.
By midday the Foreign Ministry announcement that Xi would travel to New Delhi on 12-13 September for the 18th BRICS leaders' meeting at Modi's invitation became the new lead across Xinhua, People's Daily and Global Times, displacing the accident.