January 3, 2024
Quick facts
■ Zheng Shajie, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said on the 2nd that the National Development and Reform Commission will work with relevant parties to inherit, carry forward, innovate and develop the "Jinjiang experience", and take more pragmatic measures from six aspects, including accelerating the legislative process of the private economy promotion law, to effectively unblock blockages, improve confidence, break barriers, solve problems, and grasp implementation, and strive to make private enterprises feel and gain.
■ Recently, according to the list of the second batch of projects determined by the implementation mechanism of the additional treasury bond project, the Ministry of Finance issued a budget of 564.6 billion yuan for the second batch of treasury bonds. (Details)
■ The Ministry of Commerce and 10 other departments recently jointly issued the "Opinions on Improving the Development Level of Processing Trade". This is another important guiding policy document on the development of processing trade after the Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Innovative Development of Processing Trade in 2016.
■ Tickets for the 14th National Winter Games will be on sale on its official WeChat public account from the 2nd. According to reports, the first batch of ticket pre-sales began on January 2 and ended on the 5th, and the pre-sale items include curling (youth group), speed skating (open group) and short track speed skating (youth group), these three competitions will be held at the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ticket prices vary depending on the program, ranging from 80 to 180 yuan per show.
Economics and Finance
■ The People's Bank of China announced on January 2 the launch of mortgage supplementary loans in December 2023, showing that in December 2023, China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of China, and Agricultural Development Bank of China added 350 billion yuan of net new mortgage supplementary loans. The balance of mortgage supplementary loans at the end of the period was 3,252.2 billion yuan.
■ According to the People's Bank of China on January 2, in order to meet the temporary liquidity needs of financial institutions, in December 2023, the People's Bank of China carried out standing lending facilities for financial institutions with a total of 15.848 billion yuan, including 118 million yuan for overnight periods, 13.880 billion yuan for 7-day periods, and 1.850 billion yuan for one-month periods. The balance of standing lending facilities at the end of the period was RMB15.730 billion.
■ On January 1, Zheshang Bank announced that it received the "Reply of the State Administration of Financial Supervision and Administration on the Preparation for the Establishment of Zheyin Wealth Management Co., Ltd." on December 29, 2023, and was approved to establish Zheyin Wealth Management Co., Ltd.
■ Recently, five companies and relevant responsible persons, including Tianjin Real Estate Group Co., Ltd., Furen Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., China Urban Investment Group Sixth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., Eagle Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group Co., Ltd., and China Minsheng Investment Co., Ltd., have received fines from the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors of China. From the perspective of the reasons for the disposition, the five issuers of debt financing instruments have information disclosure violations, and all five issuers have defaults on debt financing instruments and recidivist violations that should be dealt with severely.
Social hotspots
■ According to the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission in the State Administration of Financial Supervision and Administration, and the Guangdong Provincial Supervision Commission, Xu Guangyan, a first-level chief staff member of the Dongguan Supervision Branch of the State Financial Supervision and Administration Administration, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary examination by the Discipline Inspection Committee of the Dongguan Supervision Branch of the State Financial Supervision and Administration Administration.
■ On January 1, the Dongguan Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the latest policy through the official platform "Dongguan e-subscription", and from January 1, 2024, Dongguan City will implement the phased cancellation of the lower limit of the interest rate of commercial personal housing loans for the first housing in the jurisdiction.
■ The "strangulation" of the new energy vehicle market in 2023 has come to an end. On the first day of 2024, various new energy vehicle companies have successively announced their sales or delivery data for December 2023, and the results of last year's full year have also been announced. Among them, BYD achieved sales of 3,024,400 units, successfully completing the annual target. Ideal broke through the 50,000 monthly delivery mark in the last month.
■ According to the statistics of the National Film Administration, the total box office of films during the 2024 New Year's Day holiday (December 30, 2023 to January 1, 2024) will be 1.533 billion yuan, setting a new record for the same schedule. The number of moviegoers was 36.6 million, and the box office of domestic films was 1.411 billion yuan, accounting for 92.04% of the market.
International dynamics
■ According to CCTV News, on January 2, Thai Prime Minister Saitha Thaman's prestige said that China and Thailand will permanently exempt each other's citizens from March.
■ According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association on the 2nd, a Japan Airlines passenger plane collided with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on the same day, causing a fire. All 379 people on board the passenger plane have been safely evacuated, 5 of the 6 people on board the Coast Guard aircraft have died, and the captain has been seriously injured.
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