Today's data selection: Xi'an has not handled the epidemic prevention and control of 26 people, and the unknown disease in South Sudan has caused nearly 100 deaths

On December 23, 87 new cases were confirmed, 55 local cases were confirmed, and 52 new local cases were confirmed in Shaanxi

From 0 to 24:00 on December 23, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 87 new confirmed cases. Among them, there were 32 imported cases (8 cases in Shanghai, 5 cases in Hunan, 4 cases in Guangdong, 3 cases in Guangxi, 3 cases in Sichuan, 3 cases in Yunnan, 2 cases in Shaanxi, 2 cases in Gansu, 1 case in Inner Mongolia, and 1 case in Liaoning), including 3 cases from asymptomatic infected people to confirmed cases (all in Sichuan); 55 local cases (52 cases in Shaanxi, including 49 cases in Xi'an City, 2 cases in Yan'an City, 1 case in Xianyang City; 1 case in Zhejiang, in Shaoxing City; 1 case in Guangdong, in Dongguan City; 1 case in Guangxi, in Fangchenggang City). There were no new deaths. There were 6 new suspected cases, all of which were imported from abroad (all in Shanghai). (CCTV News)

China's pension service market is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan to drive 6 million people to employment

Zheng Bingwen, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the World Social Security Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said at the special forum "City Center For the Elderly: New Trends in the Elderly" sponsored by the China News Agency Forum on the 23rd that if the Chinese market is calculated based on the current scale of the US pension service market, this should be a market of 600 billion yuan, driving employment of 6 million people. Pension services are not only people's livelihood, not only measures to cope with the aging of the population, but also a huge market.

The "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Strengthening the Work on Aging in the New Era" was released last month, which clearly proposed to innovate the home community old-age service model. What kind of model is this? Zheng Bingwen pointed out at the forum on the same day that the home community pension means that the community should serve the home, including the community door-to-door service, to meet some of the living needs of the elderly, widows and widows, the disabled elderly and other groups, which is also an important expression of the integration of the elderly. Zheng Bingwen believes that this kind of mention is also a "correction" of concerns in the industry and the media. In the past few years, the industry and the media have paid more attention to institutional pensions. However, for the vast majority of the elderly, including the middle and low income classes, the pension is still mainly based on home care, so it is necessary to return to the roots. And the many difficulties faced by home care, what to solve? Rely on home community care services.

Compared with the pension service market in the United States, he pointed out that in fact, the market potential in this field is huge. In the U.S. family care industry, the largest annual income for employees is elderly care. According to its disclosure, in 2021, the revenue can reach about 110 billion US dollars, and the employment population is 1.92 million. By 2027, the revenue of this industry in the United States is expected to reach $147 billion, the number of companies will increase from 430,000 to 580,000, and the number of jobs will increase from 1.92 million to 2.55 million. If you calculate the Chinese market according to this, the scale of the pension service market is about 600 billion yuan, driving the employment of 6 million people. (China News Network)

High-tech enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta: 20 times the number of 8 years ago, accounting for 27% of the country

Recently, the Yangtze River Delta Industrial Innovation and Development Report: Distribution and Synergy Research Report (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") released by the Yangtze River Institute of Industrial Economics of Nanjing University shows that since 2013, the industrial innovation and development of the Yangtze River Delta has accelerated year by year, especially since 2018. Xu Ning, deputy dean of the Yangtze River Institute of Industrial Economics of Nanjing University, analyzed that according to the report, since 2013, the industrial innovation and development of the Yangtze River Delta has accelerated year by year. In the past eight years, the average annual growth rate of the number of high-tech enterprises has exceeded 50%, and in 2020, it has increased to more than 70,000, which is 20 times that of 2013, and the proportion of the whole country has risen from 6% to 27%. Especially since 2018, growth has accelerated significantly, with an average annual growth rate of more than 60%. (CBN)

The first anniversary of Brexit: What is the cost of the UK economy?

The UK is about to turn a year away from the European Single Market and the customs union, and while the economic impact of Brexit was once masked by the pandemic, the drag of this political event on the UK economy has become clearer over time. According to the model of the European Reform Centre (CER), the volume of trade in goods between the UK and the EU as of October this year fell by 15.7% compared with the remaining in the EU, which is obviously much more than the "10% decline" publicly estimated by the British government in 2018.

According to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), even before the complete departure from the EU at the end of 2020, Brexit has already reduced the size of the UK's economy by 1.5%, mainly due to the decline in business investment and the shift of economic activity within the EU. The OBR also said that since Brexit, the extent of the contraction in trade volume means that the British economy is on a long-term loss of 4% track, which is also in line with pre-Brexit expectations. Of course, for any economy, a single policy that causes GDP to evaporate by 4%-5% is definitely a big deal. According to the data that has been released so far, 200,000 EU residents will leave the UK in 2020 alone, and the tightening of immigration rules and the worst economic downturn in nearly 30 years have also caused a shortage of employees in the retail and service industries that have traditionally relied on EU labor in the UK. (Financial Associated Press)

An unknown disease in South Sudan has killed nearly 100 people, with symptoms including cough and diarrhea

A recent outbreak of an "unknown disease" in northern South Sudan has killed nearly 100 people, and WHO has sent teams to investigate the area. South Sudan's Ministry of Health said most of the deaths were elderly and children, with symptoms including cough, diarrhea, fever and more.

According to the ABC reported on the 23rd, South Sudanese local official Bell said on the same day that the mysterious disease that currently broke out in the town of Fangak in the country's Qionglai State has caused 97 deaths, and the latest death case is an elderly woman. South Sudan's ministry of health said in a statement that most of the deaths were elderly people and children aged 1 to 14 years. Symptoms of this mysterious disease include cough, diarrhea, fever, headache, chest pain, joint pain, loss of appetite and weakness.

The BBC has noted that the WHO initially suspected it was related to cholera due to the recent severe flooding of the site where the mysterious disease occurred. However, WHO did not detect infectious bacteria that cause cholera in patient samples. Medical experts in South Sudan revealed that due to flooding, WHO scientists had to take helicopters to the local area for testing. (Overseas Network)

Xi'an handled 26 people responsible for the epidemic prevention and control

On December 23, the reporter learned from the Discipline Inspection Commission of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, that since the import of the new crown pneumonia epidemic from abroad on December 4, Xi'an City has organized discipline inspection and supervision cadres to carry out 15 rounds of supervision and inspection, inspected 1348 key points, found and supervised rectification problems on the spot, 4 grass-roots party organizations and units that were responsible for poor epidemic prevention and control, dealt with 26 relevant responsible persons, and reported 14 people in 2 cases.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Xi'an Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission, in the early normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the degree of ideological attention is not enough, the implementation of the main responsibility is not in place, the implementation of the relevant systems is not strict, the internal management is chaotic and other reasons caused by the infection of special class staff in overseas isolation hotels with new crown pneumonia, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has given 10 responsible persons party discipline and government affairs sanctions or organizational handling after investigation and verification, and reported throughout the city. At the same time, in view of the problems that the epidemic prevention and control headquarters of a certain district is not smooth and unsynchronized in the epidemic prevention and control work, resulting in the inability of close contact personnel to be controlled in a timely manner, the 4 responsible persons of the epidemic prevention and control headquarters of the district are given government sanctions or organizational handling. (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, State Supervision Commission website)

Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Mo Text Editor: Lian Junxiang

Source: Author: Lian Junxiang