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Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. According to the news of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, from December 8 to 10, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, attended the joint meeting of the Mainland-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 2024 and delivered a speech at the symposium of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, and prepared to hold the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Business Conference. During his visit, Ren Hongbin met with Lee Ka Chiu John, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Qi Bin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He had extensive exchanges with Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and people from the Hong Kong business community. He had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening economic and trade cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong. He went to Jardine Matheson Group, HSBC Group, Swire Group and Cathay Group for investigation, and listened to work reports at the Hong Kong Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Patent Agency (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.The data of VAT invoice shows that the development momentum of "two new products" is good, and the effect of replacing old products with new ones is steadily promoted. The data of VAT invoice shows that in November, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by enterprises nationwide increased by 4.5% year-on-year. Cumulatively, from January to November, it increased by 6.1% year-on-year, which was 4.2 percentage points faster than the overall purchase amount of enterprises nationwide. Especially in key areas, the effect is obvious, for example, the equipment procurement of industrial enterprises has grown steadily. From January to November, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by industrial enterprises increased by 5.1% year on year. Among them, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by manufacturing, electric hot gas and water production and supply industries increased by 5.2% and 5.5% respectively year-on-year, which was higher than the overall growth rate of industrial procurement equipment. For another example, the equipment in business, information and technology industries is updated rapidly. From January to November, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by modern service industries such as leasing business services, information technology services and scientific research and technology services increased by 10.4%, 16.6% and 19.6% respectively year-on-year, which were significantly higher than the overall growth rate of equipment purchased by enterprises nationwide, reflecting the accelerated development of industries related to new quality productivity. According to the data of VAT invoice, from January to November, the retail sales revenue of household audio-visual equipment such as televisions and household appliances such as refrigerators increased by 15.9% and 18.7% year-on-year, respectively, which was 11.4 and 14.2 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of retail industry, especially driven by the "Double Eleven" promotion, which increased by 28.8% and 74.4% year-on-year in November. On the other hand, the overall sales of furniture products are improving. According to the data of VAT invoice, from January to November, the sales revenue of furniture retail industry and sanitary ware retail industry increased by 16.8% and 12.5% respectively, which was 12.3 and 8 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of retail industry, and it showed a rapid growth trend in November, increasing by 36% and 18.8% respectively. (State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China)The co-founder of OpenAI expressed his hope to provide products in Europe, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media X that he hoped to provide the company's products in Europe. "We want to provide our products in Europe ... we must also abide by the regulations," Altman said on X. Altman also said in the post that the release of European products may be delayed and some services may not be available.

Yunnan Statistics Bureau: The burden of labor support in Yunnan is relatively light, and the demographic dividend is better than that in the whole country. Recently, the series of reports on the achievements of Yunnan's economic and social development in the 75 years since the New China was released by Yunnan Statistics Bureau held that the age structure of Yunnan's population is better than that of the whole country, and the demographic dividend still exists. The population aged 60 and over in Yunnan is 7.92 million, accounting for 16.9%, which is 4.2 percentage points lower than the national average. Among them, the population aged 65 and over is 5.58 million, accounting for 11.9%, which is 3.5 percentage points lower than the national average. The population aging situation is better than the national average. On the whole, the age structure of Yunnan population is better than that of the whole country, and the labor resources are abundant. The total dependency ratio (43.4%) is lower than the national average level (46.5%), the dependency burden of the labor force is relatively lighter than that of the whole country, and the demographic dividend is better than that of the whole country. (澎湃)The registration of advanced driving training of Xiaomi Automobile began, with a registration fee of 9999 yuan. On December 10th, Xiaomi Automobile announced that the registration of elite driving project of Xiaomi Automobile was started, with a registration fee of 9999 yuan. Subsequently, Lei Jun said that Xiaomi's advanced driving training program was held at Zhejiang International Circuit, and the training fee could be offset by Xiaomi SU7 Ultra.Xiaojin Company has listed a total of 7.922 billion yuan of personal loan asset packages. Up to now, Xiaojin Company has listed a total of 7.922 billion yuan of personal loan asset packages this month. Among them, on December 3, China Post Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. listed and transferred the third to sixth personal loan asset packages in 2024, with a total principal and interest of 7.172 billion yuan; On the 5th, BOC Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. also listed the 68th-83rd installment and the 4th installment of personal loan asset package, with a total principal and interest of 750 million yuan. It is worth noting that the transfer price of these non-performing asset packages can be called "cabbage price". According to the statistics of 21st century business herald reporter, the average discount rate of assets package of BOC Xiaojin is as low as 1.5 fold, while the assets package of China Post Xiaojin is given an ultra-low discount of 0.2 fold, which can be called "fracture". (21 Finance)

Qian Jianzhong, former Party Secretary and President of Bank of China Ningbo Branch, was investigated. According to the news from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in China and the Supervision Commission of Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Qian Jianzhong, former Party Secretary and President of Bank of China Ningbo Branch, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law, and is currently under disciplinary review by the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in China and supervision and investigation by the Supervision Commission of Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. (CCTV News)Everbright Securities: The competitive pattern of K12 teaching and training is expected to improve, and the leading profits of the industry will gradually recover during the year. Everbright Securities released a research report saying that with the clearing of the industry and the improvement of the competitive pattern of the industry, the leading profits will gradually recover (the utilization rate of leading outlets and the teacher's schedule rate will gradually increase under the optimization of the pattern), and the dark moment of the teaching and training industry has passed. Under the optimization of competition pattern, the release of K12 leader operating leverage has driven the performance to pick up, and the profitability is expected to continue to be repaired. In the past 24 years, the income of leading enterprises has increased rapidly and the profitability has improved with high certainty. In the future, it is still necessary to continue to pay attention to the policy direction, cover the education sector for the first time, and give an "overweight" rating.Biden's administration is striving to ensure a ceasefire in Gaza before January 20th. CNN quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the administration led by US President Biden is "working increasingly closely" with officials of the new administration to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza before Trump is sworn in on January 20th.