The renminbi hit a new high in more than three years against the US dollar
On Wednesday afternoon, the onshore and offshore renminbi rose above the 6.35 mark against the dollar, the highest since May 2018. As of 16:30, the official close of the onshore yuan against the dollar was 6.3535, up 143 basis points from the previous session.
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Beijing has proposed to basically eliminate heavily polluted weather after four years
Beijing municipality on Wednesday released the "Beijing 14th Five-Year Plan" period of ecological environmental protection plan, planning that by 2025, the annual average concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing will drop to about 35 micrograms per cubic meter, basically eliminating heavily polluted weather; eliminating inferior class V water bodies; and steadily improving the ecological environment quality index.
China Merchants Shekou and others intend to issue M&A notes
According to the Securities Times, people familiar with the matter said that China Merchants Shekou and other enterprises plan to register and issue M&A notes in the near future with the China Interbank Market Dealers Association to raise funds for mergers and acquisitions of real estate projects. People familiar with the matter said that supporting high-quality real estate enterprises to issue bonds for mergers and acquisitions is conducive to promoting industry integration and promoting the healthy development and virtuous circle of the real estate industry.
The National Development and Reform Commission requires that blind and disorderly development of data centers be avoided
The National Development and Reform Commission and four other departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Implementing the Carbon Peak Carbon Neutrality Target Requirements and Promoting the Green and High-quality Development of New Infrastructure Such as Data Centers and 5G", which mentions that in principle, for new data centers built outside the national hub nodes, local governments must not give preferential policies in terms of land, finance and taxation. All localities should strengthen the overall guidance of data center construction and resolutely avoid the blind and disorderly development of data centers.
The National Medical Insurance Bureau recovered about 50.6 billion yuan of medical insurance funds in four years
Jiang Chengjia, director of the Department of Fund Supervision of the National Medical Insurance Bureau, introduced at a press conference on Wednesday that since the establishment of the National Medical Insurance Bureau, it has always taken strengthening the supervision of medical insurance funds and maintaining the safety of funds as the primary task, and initially formed a high-pressure situation of medical insurance fund supervision. From 2018 to October 2021, a total of about 2.34 million designated medical institutions were inspected, about 1 million were handled, and about 50.6 billion yuan of medical insurance funds were recovered.
Long Guoqiang: China's export trade faces two major challenges and opportunities
Long Guoqiang, deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said at the "High-end Forum on the 20th Anniversary of China's Accession to the WTO" on Wednesday that China, as a major export trade country, is facing two severe challenges and two strategic opportunities at the same time. In traditional labor-intensive products, they face more and more competition from similar products in lower-cost developing countries; in technology-intensive products, they must upgrade the international competitiveness of products and services and face competition from developed countries. As for strategic opportunities, he said that one is the digital transformation opportunity brought about by the new technological revolution represented by information technology, and the other is the low-carbon transformation, both of which will bring a lot of new developments.
Liu Shangxi: The premise of common prosperity is fair opportunity
Liu Shangxi, president of the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, said in an interview with the Financial National Weekly a few days ago that the premise of common prosperity is fair opportunities. The sufficient condition for common prosperity is to guarantee the acquisition of basic competencies by all people through social synergy. If the gap in income distribution is narrowed only in terms of results, and even the gap in wealth is narrowed, but the gap in ability is not narrowed, this gap will reappear when entering the next economic cycle. Therefore, the change and improvement of ability is the most important. Changing the inequality and mismatch of basic rights and obligations in society, promoting the general improvement of the basic capacity of the people, gradually realizing the fairness of the starting point, the fairness of opportunities, and the narrowing of the gap between group consumption are the top priorities at present.
The darkest hour of automotive chip supply in the third quarter has passed
The Passenger Car Market Information Joint Committee issued a report pointing out that due to the epidemic sweeping the world, many countries have encountered problems in automobile production, and the impact of "core shortage" and soaring raw material prices is huge. The darkest hour of automotive chip supply in the third quarter has passed, and it was expected that the improvement of chip supply would prompt production to rise to the level of November last year, but the actual increase was about 14% month-on-month, but it has not returned to last year's level, and the bottleneck factor of supply opaque is still there.
China's annual express delivery business volume exceeded 100 billion pieces for the first time
According to Xinhua News Agency, on December 8, the real-time monitoring data of the Express Big Data Platform of the State Post Bureau showed that in 2021, China's express delivery business volume has reached 100 billion pieces, which is the first time that China's annual express delivery business volume has exceeded the level of 100 billion, and has ranked first in the world for 8 consecutive years, with an average daily service of nearly 700 million users.
Shanghai index closed up 1.18%
As of the stock market close, the Shanghai Composite Index reported 3637.57 points, up 1.18%; the Shenzhen Composite Index reported 14964.46 points, up 1.82%; the ChiNext Index reported 3424.7 points, up 1.66%. On the surface, civil aviation airports, the power industry and decoration building materials rose in the front, and energy metals, power supply equipment and aerospace fell in the front.