PRE-MARKET CHINESE STOCKS NEWS: Shein shares debut in Hong Kong

Agile Group Holdings (3383 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) net loss 8.83bln (prev. loss 9.03bln Y/Y), rev. fell 20% Y/Y to 10.9bln. (Newswires)

Baidu (9888 HK) - Co. announced its dual-primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is effective August 31, with its Hong Kong ordinary shares and Nasdaq ADSs to remain fungible. (Newswires)

Bank of Tianjin (1578 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) net fell 6% Y/Y to 1.88bln, NII rose 7% Y/Y to 6.36bln. (Newswires)

China CITIC Financial Asset Management (2799 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) net rose 11% Y/Y to 6.86bln, rev. fell 52% Y/Y to 14.9bln. (Newswires)

China Yongda Automobiles Services (3669 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) adj. net fell 57% Y/Y to 27mln, rev. fell 23% Y/Y to 20.8bln. (Newswires)

CXMT (688825 CN) - Co. reportedly started production of its advanced HBM3E memory product. (The Information)

Feishang Anthracite Resources (1738 HK) - Co. faces a possible trading suspension if it does not publish its results by August 31. (Newswires)

Shein (625 HK) - Co. is set to begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1 after setting its final IPO price at HKD 48.56/shr. (Newswires)

United Laboratories International (3933 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) net fell 82% Y/Y to 347.6mln, rev. fell 18% Y/Y to 6.17bln. (Newswires)

Xingda International Holdings (1899 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) net fell 67% Y/Y to 65mln, rev. rose 2% Y/Y to 5.78bln. (Newswires)

Z.AI Group (2513 HK) - Co. H1 2026 (CNY) net loss 2.07bln (prev. loss 2.58bln Y/Y), rev. fell 29% Y/Y to 953.9mln, R&D expenses 2.13bln (prev. 2.71bln Y/Y), no interim dividend recommended; Co. said infrastructure is starting to self-optimise and confirmed inference across more than 100k domestic chip clusters. (Newswires)

China court reportedly froze USD 300mln of Nexperia assets in a case involving Wingtech, bolstering the Chinese group’s effort to reclaim voting rights stripped by Dutch authorities. (Newswires)

China’s Commerce Ministry is targeting around CNY 60tln in retail sales by 2030, while pledging to expand automobile consumption and create fairer market conditions for companies. (Newswires)

• Hong Kong Retail Sales Value Y/Y (Jul) 4.5% vs Exp. 6.3% (Prev. 4.6%)
• Hong Kong Retail Sales Volume Y/Y (Jul) 2.3% vs Exp. 3.9% (Prev. 2.3%)

The headline event is the Shein debut, and the precedent on Hong Kong listings of this profile is that the first sessions are driven less by fundamentals than by float dynamics, cornerstone lockups and whether the book was covered by fast money or long-only demand; large consumer IPOs priced near the middle of range have historically seen an initial pop fade once allocation quality reveals itself. The venue choice itself carries the signal: issuers that shifted primary exposure toward Hong Kong after regulatory friction in Western venues have tended to trade at a structural discount to global peers until index inclusion and southbound flows establish a holder base, so the Stock Connect eligibility timeline is the follow-on that matters. The surrounding roundup is a standard interim-season slate: Chinese property developers continue to report narrowing but persistent losses, dealer and mid-tier names show margin compression consistent with the price-war dynamics in domestic autos, and the AI names remain in loss-making buildout with the tell being R&D trajectory rather than the bottom line. The Baidu dual-primary conversion fits an established sequence among US-listed Chinese tech names and has typically mattered more for fungibility and future Connect access than for near-term price. The Nexperia asset freeze is worth tracking as an escalation channel in the cross-border semiconductor dispute rather than as an earnings item.