According to Odaily Planet Daily, Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, stated at the China Development Forum 2026 on March 22 that the bank will steadily promote high-level opening-up of the financial sector. This includes deepening the interconnectivity of financial markets and cross-border payment systems to facilitate investment in China's financial markets by more investors. China's stock and bond markets are both the second largest globally, with continuously improving market depth, resilience, and liquidity. By the end of 2025, overseas institutions and individuals will hold over 10 trillion yuan in RMB financial assets, including stocks, bonds, deposits, and loans. Overseas investors are welcome to participate in and invest in China's financial markets. In recent years, RMB internationalization has made positive progress, providing more diversified currency options for domestic and foreign entities. Currently, RMB financing costs are relatively low. In 2025, governments, international development institutions, financial institutions, and large enterprises issued over 170 billion yuan in Panda bonds, with even larger amounts of offshore RMB bonds issued in Hong Kong. The bank will continue to improve the institutional arrangements for the cross-border use of RMB and the construction of financial infrastructure. Diversified monetary and financial cooperation will be carried out to promote the development of the offshore RMB market and facilitate cross-border trade and investment activities. (People's Bank of China)

According to a report from the Hong Kong Police Force, a gold robbery occurred on March 20th at the Peninsula Plaza on Chung On Street, Hung Hom, involving 73 gold bars, each weighing 1 kilogram, with a value of approximately HK$100 million. Police responded quickly, arresting five men and women involved and successfully recovering the stolen 73 kilograms of gold bars. The incident occurred at approximately 2:45 PM on the 20th. A man, posing as a buyer, was conducting a gold transaction with staff at a gold shop in an office building on Chung On Street, Hung Hom. Suddenly, two men and a woman burst into the office, claiming that the company's manager owed a huge debt. They, along with the male buyer, took advantage of the chaos to steal the 73 gold bars, weighing approximately 73 kilograms in total, into a suitcase. (Southern Daily)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey typed "just setting up my twttr" on a laptop on March 21, 2006, ushering in the era of 140-character tweets. Now 20 years old, this extremely simple tweet has been featured on Wikipedia's timeline, in the Computer History Museum archives, and even has its own Guinness World Record. In March 2021, Jack Dorsey sold a NFT version of this first tweet for $2,915,835.47 to Sina Estavi, CEO of the oracle system Bridge Oracle. However, the price of the NFT subsequently plummeted. (cnBeta)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Elon Musk held a press conference for Project Terafab, announcing that this ambitious plan, aimed at eventually manufacturing its own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence, and space data centers, will be based in Austin and jointly operated by Tesla and SpaceX. Musk stated that he will first build an "advanced technology wafer fab" in Austin, equipped with the full suite of equipment needed to manufacture and test various types of chips. Musk said that although the semiconductor industry is increasing production, its pace of development is still not meeting his anticipated chip demand. "This pace is far below our expectations," Musk said. "Either we build a terawatt-scale factory, or we don't have any chips available, and we need these chips, so we're building a terawatt-scale factory." Musk's project aims to support 1 terawatt of computing power annually in the future. (Jiemian)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin praised Alibaba's Qwen 35B parametric model's problem-solving capabilities on social media. The AI model successfully solved a complex mathematical problem, consuming approximately 15,000 tokens in the reasoning process and completing the calculation on a local device in just 3 minutes. Buterin pointed out that the problem demonstrated the technique of embedding modular arithmetic into continuous function expressions using trigonometric functions, showcasing the Qwen model's mathematical reasoning abilities.