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[New Year's Day holiday "report card"]

During the New Year's Day holiday in 2024, 135 million domestic tourists will travel

During the 2024 New Year's Day holiday, the national cultural and tourism market will be stable and orderly. According to the data center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, during the three-day New Year's Day holiday, there were 135 million domestic tourism trips, an increase of 155.3% year-on-year, an increase of 9.4% over the same period in 2019 on a comparable basis, and a domestic tourism revenue of 79.73 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 200.7% and an increase of 5.6% over the same period in 2019. Read the full article >>>

During the New Year's Day holiday, the country is expected to send more than 120 million passengers

According to the Ministry of Transport, from December 30, 2023 to January 1, 2024 (during the 2024 New Year's Day holiday), the total number of passengers sent by railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation across the country is expected to be 128,126,400, an increase of 78.4% over the same period in 2023 (during the New Year's Day holiday, the same below) and an increase of 33.1% over the same period in 2022. Among them, railways are expected to send 44.202 million passengers, an increase of 177.5% over the same period in 2023 and 104.8% over the same period in 2022, 76.998 million passengers are expected to be sent by highways, an increase of 46.1% over the same period in 2023 and 8.6% over the same period in 2022, and 1.7364 million passengers are expected to be sent by waterways, an increase of 72.9% over the same period in 2023 and 36.3% over the same period in 2022. Civil aviation is expected to send 5.19 million passengers, an increase of 140.3% over the same period in 2023 and 110.9% over the same period in 2022. Read the full >>>

The total box office of the 2024 New Year's Day stalls will reach 1.515 billion, setting a new high for the New Year's Day stalls in Chinese film history

According to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, as of 21 o'clock on January 1, the total box office of the 2024 New Year's Day stalls was 1.515 billion, setting a new high for the New Year's Day stalls in Chinese film history, with a total of 36.164 million moviegoers and a total of 1.402 million shows, setting a new high in the total number of New Year's Day stalls in Chinese film history. In terms of single films, "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star", "Annual Meeting Can't Stop!", "Goldfinger", "Sneaking" and "If You Are the Truth Do Not Disturb 3" ranked among the top five box office in the schedule. Read the full >>>

During the New Year's Day holiday, Beijing Park accepted 2.54 million visitors, an increase of nearly 70% over last year

With 1.03 million visitors walking into the park on the last day of the holiday, Beijing Park received 2.54 million visitors during the New Year's Day holiday, an increase of 69% compared with the same period last year. In order to enrich the winter cultural and sports life of citizens, the city's parks have launched a total of 35 cultural activities such as flower exhibitions, folk customs experience, and popular science education, as well as 41 ice and snow activities. This year's ice and snow activities include not only traditional ice sports such as ice cars, ice slides, and ice bikes, but also parent-child interactive entertainment projects in the snow resort such as snow tubes, snowmobiles, and snow rail cars, and the ice and snow activities will last until mid-to-late February 2024. Read the full >>>

Beijing staged a light show in Chaoyang, and the galaxy greeted the New Year

During the New Year's Day holiday, the Beijing Chaoyang 2024 New Year's light show was staged at the Olympic Tower, Dawangjing Building Group, Beijing CBD, and Jingguang Building, lighting up the night sky with the blessing of science and technology. The Dawangjing building complex is covered with a layer of "Chinese red", the building and the red complement each other, the curtain wall flashes the bronzing words "Happy New Year", and the subtitles are intertwined with light and shadow. Read the full >>>

[Focus on the 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Japan]

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, at around 16:10 local time on January 1, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, and caused a tsunami. The earthquake caused collapsed homes, damaged roads, widespread power outages and fires. Niigata and Fukui prefectures around Ishikawa Prefecture were injured. (Xinhua News Agency)

A tsunami about 5 meters high was observed in Ishikawa Prefecture, near the epicenter of the powerful earthquake in Japan

A strong earthquake struck the Hokuriku region of Japan on January 1, and as of 17:00 local time, a tsunami several meters high has been observed in many places in Japan, including a tsunami about 5 meters high in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, near the epicenter. (Xinhua News Agency)

Japanese media: A "large-scale" fire broke out in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, due to an earthquake

Japan's TV Asahi reported that a "large-scale" fire broke out in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1 due to an earthquake. (Xinhua News Agency)

Six people have died in the Noto area of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on January 2, Japan's Ishikawa Prefectural Police Headquarters said that as of 5 o'clock local time on January 2, the earthquake had killed six people. (CCTV News)

The earthquake caused water to overflow the spent fuel pool of multiple units at the Kashiwazaki Kariba Nuclear Power Plant in Japan

According to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported on January 1, Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on the same day that it had confirmed that the reactors of units 2, 3, 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki Kariba Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture "overflowed due to earthquake shaking, but did not flow outside the building and did not affect the outside world." Read the full >>>

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【Current Affairs】

National Immigration Administration: More than 110,000 visa-free entry into China from 6 countries Tourism and leisure account for 70%.

As of December 31, 2023, a total of 214,000 people from the above six countries have come to China, an increase of 28.5% from November, of which 118,000 people have entered China without visas with ordinary passports, accounting for 55.1% of the total arrivals from the six countries in the same period From the perspective of the reason for entry, 91,000 people came to China for sightseeing, leisure and business activities among those holding ordinary passports and entering the country without visas, accounting for 77.3%. Read the full >>>

The registration for the Fifth National Economic Census began on 1 January

The registration for the Fifth National Economic Census was officially launched on 1 January. About 2.1 million census instructors and census takers across the country will go deep into enterprises and businesses, visit streets and alleys, and collect and register data on 1.16 million census districts in nearly four months. The Fifth National Economic Census is a "comprehensive physical examination" and "centralized inventory" of the national economy after the victory of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. (Xinhua News Agency) Read the full >>>

After the New Deal, the first Taiwan compatriot received a settlement permit on New Year's Day: I am very happy to be a resident of Xiamen

At about 9 o'clock in the morning on January 1, 2024, Zhang Liqi, a doctoral colleague who teaches at Huaqiao University, received the "Taiwan Resident Settlement Certificate" from the police of the Exit and Entry Administration Detachment of the Xiamen Municipal Public Security Bureau, becoming the first Taiwan compatriot to settle in Fujian after the implementation of the ten entry and exit policies and measures of the Exit and Entry Administration of the People's Republic of China to support Fujian's construction of a cross-strait integrated development demonstration zone. In the face of the reporter's interview, Zhang Liqi was very excited: "I am very happy to be a resident of Xiamen and achieve the goal that I have been pursuing for a long time!" (Beijing News) Read the full >>>

The continental manned space program will carry out four missions in 2024

According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, this year, the mainland will carry out four missions, namely the Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft, the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft, the Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft, and the Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft. At present, the Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft and the Long March-7 Yao-8 carrier rocket have arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site, where they are undergoing final assembly and testing, and are waiting for launch at the beginning of the year. Read the full >>>

【Local】

Teachers and students from Tsinghua University and Peking University have achieved smooth communication

Recently, Tsinghua University and Peking University have reached an agreement through friendly consultation that teachers and students of the two universities will be able to communicate freely from January 1, 2024. Combined with the actual situation of campus management, the school gates of the two schools implement an inspection and passage system. The two schools will exchange identity verification information, and those who enter the school can walk or ride into the school after passing the verification at the school gate. Read the full >>>

From January 2, Beijing Public Transport Group will pilot the operation of 6 special lines for general medicine

From January 2, 2024, Beijing Public Transport Group will pilot the operation of 6 special medical lines to serve 7 hospitals including Guang'anmen, Dongzhimen, Weeping Yangliu and Haidian, mainly to facilitate the centralized medical travel needs of large residential communities and solve the medical travel problems of the masses. Read the full >>>

[Society]

The woman fraudulently used another person's ID card to take the flight, and the Daxing Airport police detained her in accordance with the law

Recently, in the process of performing security inspection tasks, the security inspectors of Daxing Airport found that a female passenger Li who took a plane to Shenzhen did not match the ID card during the document inspection, and the system showed that the face comparison score was low. The security officer immediately asked for personal information and other valid documents, and the passenger looked nervous, claiming that he had undergone cosmetic surgery without a plastic surgery certificate, and refused to provide other valid documents. These abnormal behaviors immediately aroused the high vigilance of the security personnel and called the police in time, and after receiving the report, the police immediately went to the scene to deal with it. It is understood that in order to evade the flight restrictions, Li used his sister's identity document to buy tickets and tried to pass the security check to take the flight. After the work of the police, Li finally truthfully confessed the illegal act of fraudulently using other people's resident identity documents to take the plane, and the public security organs imposed a penalty of administrative detention on Li in accordance with the law. Read the full >>>

In order to circumvent the tail number restriction, the owner of the car "put on" four sets of license plates for a car, and the police administratively detained him in accordance with the law

Recently, the Beijing Daxing International Airport Branch of the Capital Airport Public Security Bureau in the process of joint law enforcement with relevant departments, found that the registration information of an Infiniti small car did not match the vehicle at the scene, the police, the car actually had four license plates, and the current offender Zhan was administratively detained by the Capital Airport Police in accordance with the law. Read the full >>>

【Style】

In 2023, 1.299 billion moviegoers will set a four-year record, and the audience's willingness to watch movies will rebound

On January 1, according to the data of the National Film Administration, the annual film box office in 2023 will be 54.915 billion yuan, of which the box office of Chinese-made films will be 46.005 billion yuan, accounting for 83.77%, and the number of moviegoers in urban cinemas will be 1.299 billion. At the same time, Maoyan Research Institute released the "2023 China Film Market Data Insight Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). According to the report, in 2023, the annual box office of Chinese films will reach 54.915 billion, and the number of moviegoers in urban theaters will reach 1.299 billion, and Chinese films will contribute 83.8% of the annual box office, showing a strong momentum of development. Read the full >>>

After advancing to the first round of the Hong Kong Open, Shang Juncheng is looking forward to a more calm and disciplined new season

On January 1, the ATP (International Men's Tennis Association) 250 Hong Kong Open began the first round of men's singles. The 18-year-old Chinese teenager Shang Juncheng saved match point and defeated No. 7 seed Jereh 2-1 to win his first tour tournament in China. Looking forward to the new season, Shang Juncheng said that many of his peers on the tour are calm and self-disciplined, which is a direction he will strive for in the new season. Read the full >>>

【International】

The accession of the five countries to the BRICS cooperation mechanism came into effect on January 1

On January 1, 2024, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Ethiopia became full members of BRICS. Experts and scholars from the new BRICS member states said that joining the BRICS cooperation mechanism will help countries tap their own potential and cooperate to promote their own economic development, and look forward to injecting new vitality into the BRICS cooperation mechanism. Read the full >>>

Edited by Wei Mian Wei Yue Proofread by Chen Diyan