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Famous products Ye Guofu: Promote high-quality development with high-quality consumption. Recently, Ye Guofu, the founder, chairman and CEO of Famous Products, talked with the media about the 2024 Central Economic Work Conference and expressed confidence in the consumer market in China next year. Ye Guofu said that benefiting people's livelihood is widely expected and actively responds to the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference. Enterprises have the responsibility to fully support and cooperate with the state to do a good job in consumption, boost consumption, enhance consumption capacity, and promote high-quality development with high-quality consumption.A number of banks' "second response": individual pension fund accounts will be opened in batches. Since the news that the individual pension system was pushed from 36 pilot cities to the whole country was released, a number of commercial banks acted quickly and successively issued notices on the automatic account opening business of individual pension fund accounts. At the same time, commercial banks have made careful preparations, started the "customer grabbing war" ahead of schedule, and launched a number of preferential account opening packages. Insiders interviewed by reporters said that the comprehensive roll-out of the personal pension system is an important measure for China to cope with the changes in population structure and employment situation, which will have a positive impact on China's economic development and put forward new requirements for commercial banks to do a good job in personal pension financial services. (Securities Daily)Tan Xuxiang was appointed as the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved Tan Xuxiang as the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. (Beijing Daily)

Payment licenses have been cancelled for a total of 94 times, and 9 payment institutions "left the site" during the year. Recently, Kaidianbao Payment Service Co., Ltd. issued the Notice on Suspension of Payment Business, saying that it would withdraw and clean up the existing stock business in an orderly manner. According to the list of cancelled payment institutions updated by official website, People's Bank of China, as of December 13 this year, 94 payment licenses have been confirmed to be cancelled, and the number of payment licenses cancelled this year is 9. (Securities Daily)The United States announced the 72nd aid plan to Ukraine, Pentagon: The Biden administration has so far promised that the total aid to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. According to Fox News, the Biden administration announced on the 12th local time that it would provide Ukraine with a new military aid plan of $500 million. In addition, the Biden administration will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine until its term expires in January 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, so far, the total amount of military aid promised by Biden's government to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. However, CNN said that before Biden left office, the Pentagon was unlikely to use nearly $7 billion of surplus funds approved by Congress to arm Ukraine, mainly because the military's ability to replenish stocks was limited. (World Wide Web)The latest research results support Harvard's discovery that Novo Nordisk's diet drug Ozempic is related to rare visual loss. The latest research shows that Novo Nordisk's best-selling diet drug Ozempic may increase the risk of a rare visual loss disease-nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). This finding supports similar findings published earlier by the Harvard team. A research team composed of the University of Southern Denmark, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Copenhagen found that diabetic patients who used Ozempic were twice as likely to be diagnosed with NAION as other drugs. NAION occurs when the blood flow decreases and damages the optic nerve. The risk of eye conditions is still low; Patients should pay attention. Novo Nordisk Denmark's share price once fell more than 3.3%.

Two-way opening-up continues to deepen, and foreign-funded institutions continue to be optimistic about China's capital market. Near the end of the year, many foreign-funded institutions have issued investment strategies for 2025. Foreign-funded institutions generally believe that a series of incremental policies since the end of September are gradually exerting their effects, providing strong support for China's stable economic growth and high-quality development. At the same time, the interconnection of financial markets continues to deepen, and the system of qualified foreign investors continues to be optimized, which also makes foreign investors' interest in investing in China continue to rise. Many foreign-funded institutions such as Goldman Sachs, UBS and Morgan Asset Management continue to be optimistic about the market outlook of China's capital market. Xing Ziqiang, chief economist of Morgan Stanley in China, said that the regulatory authorities are increasingly friendly to foreign investment, and the attention of overseas long-term capital and foreign investors to China is also developing in a positive direction. With the coordinated efforts of reform, it is believed that China's economy and market confidence will continue to stabilize and rebound. (Securities Times)Han Wenxiu, Deputy Director of the Central Finance Office: China's GDP is expected to increase by about 5% this year. At the 2024-2025 China Economic Annual Meeting held at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, Han Wenxiu, deputy director of the Central Finance and Economics Committee Office and director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office, said that China's GDP is expected to increase by about 5% this year. The contribution to global economic growth is close to 30%; Employment and prices remained stable, the international balance of payments was basically balanced, and the country's foreign exchange reserves remained above 3.2 trillion US dollars. (CCTV News)China Construction Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Wuhan University. On December 13th, Wen Bing, deputy party secretary and general manager of China Construction Group, held talks with Zhang Pingwen, president of Wuhan University and academician of China Academy of Sciences, and China Construction Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Wuhan University. According to the cooperation agreement, the two sides will give full play to their respective advantages, establish a long-term mechanism and deepen all-round cooperation in the fields of industrial incubation, talent cultivation, scientific research transformation and engineering construction.