Sam’s Club has partnered with JD affiliates to pilot autonomous delivery services in Beijing’s Yizhuang neighborhood. Two autonomous JD Logistics vehicles will deliver the products from the Sam’s Club warehouse to distribution centers near residential areas. Drivers from on-demand delivery platform Dada Now will dispatch the products from nearby centers to customers’ doorsteps. Users can place orders either through a Sam’s Club application or grocery delivery app JD Daojia. Dada Now and JD Daojia form the core strength of Dada Nexus, a JD affiliate backed by Walmart. [JD Daojia press release, in Chinese]

China’s central bank started to implement a new disclosure measure on Wednesday, requiring nonbank payment apps, including Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay, to disclose major business matters before and after the fact. These matters include filing for overseas IPOs, capital increases, launching new products and services, and partnering with non-Chinese companies to provide international payment services. [Nikkei Asia]

Chinese EV maker Xpeng said it will cancel weekend work days and extend weekday hours by half an hour every day, Chinese media LatePost reported on Wednesday. The old work schedule requires employees to work every other Sunday. Some Xpeng employees told LatePost that they don’t expect the change to affect their pay because they “didn’t receive overtime pay, to begin with.” [LatePost, in Chinese]

Nio announced an over-the-air system update on Wednesday night, adding an emergency driver-assistance feature to Nio Pilot, the automaker’s driver-assistance system. The new feature adds more monitoring capability to ensure drivers stay in control, Nio said in a WeChat statement. The updates apply to all models that run on its in-car operating system Aspen, formerly called Nio OS. The Chinese EV maker has been in the center of a robust public discussion on driver-assistance function after a Nio ES8 driver died in a car crash while driving in the driver-assistance mode in mid-August. [Nio statement, in Chinese]

Nio said Wednesday it delivered 5,880 vehicles in August, a 26% decrease from July, hitting its lowest level since March. The automaker attributed the drop mainly to a global shortage of semiconductors, which has continued to impact the auto industry. Nio also adjusted the top-end delivery outlook for the third quarter from 25,000 to 23,500 vehicles. Nio’s competitors Xpeng Motors and Li Auto last month delivered 7,214 and 9,433 vehicles, respectively. [Nio statement]

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi has announced the creation of a labor union in an internal forum last week. The move is likely to give more power to Didi’s mostly part-time drivers who lack full employee benefits. More tech giants are expected to follow suit, including Alibaba and Meituan. Chinese regulators have recently asked sharing-economy titans to improve workers’ lives. [Bloomberg]

Tencent’s widely popular mobile game Honor of Kings on Tuesday announced rigid restrictions on underage players. Starting from Tuesday, minors under the age of 18 are only allowed to play the game on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tencent made the move after Chinese regulators asked companies to implement anti-addiction measures to protect the country’s youth. CrossFire, a hit first-person shooter game developed by South Korean gaming company Smilegate and represented by Tencent in China, also released similar restrictions on Wednesday. [Jiemian, in Chinese]

Tencent has given up all exclusive music licensing rights after China’s top market regulator ordered it to relinquish them last month, the company said on Tuesday. The Chinese tech giant owns more than 80% of exclusive music library resources in China. Tencent said in a statement that it had notified all exclusive music partners as of Aug. 23, the deadline set by the State Administration for Market Regulation on July 24. [Tencent press release, in Chinese]

Irish-American payment company Stripe said Tuesday it began to support UnionPay International, the overseas subsidiary of UnionPay, China’s largest payment network. Stripe said the partnership will facilitate transactions in China’s currency in more than 30 markets, including Australia, Singapore, the US, the UK, and the European Union. UnionPay offers a Visa-like payment service in China. [Stripe]

Lei Jun, chairman of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, announced on Wednesday that the company has registered a car company called Xiaomi Qiche, or Xiaomi Automobile (our translation). The company has RMB 10 billion ($1.5 billion) in registered capital, with Lei being the CEO. [Lei Jun on Weibo, in Chinese]