High-level dynamics
Xi Jinping: On August 8, he met with Vietnamese National Assembly President Ong Dinh Hue. Xi Jinping asked Ong Dinh Hue to convey his cordial greetings to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Xi Jinping stressed that China is ready to strengthen the exchange of experience in governing the party and the country with Vietnam, give full play to the coordinating role of the China-Vietnam Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, accelerate the synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and the "Two Corridors and One Circle" strategy, and enrich exchanges between youth and sister cities. (CCTV News)
Xi Jinping: On August 8, he met with Mr. and Mrs. Mérieux, Chairman of the Fondation Mérieux in France. Xi Jinping stressed that China cherishes China-France friendship and is willing to further strengthen high-level exchanges and close exchanges and cooperation with France to push China-France relations to a higher level. For a long time, China and France have carried out a series of cooperation in the field of health and achieved fruitful results. We welcome the Mérieux Foundation to continue to deepen cooperation with China. (CCTV News)
Political and legal news
Zhang Jun: On the 8th, he presided over a meeting of the party group of the Supreme People's Court to study the study and education of party discipline. Zhang Jun emphasized that it is necessary to highlight the problem orientation, constantly form consciousness, promote the high-quality development of trial work with party discipline study and education, and combine the actual situation of the court system, the actual situation of this court, and the actual situation of this department, and conscientiously and solidly implement the deployment of the Party Central Committee on party discipline study and education. (SPC website)
Ying Yong: On the 8th, the first batch of training classes for the 2024 spring semester of the National Prosecutors College will be taught. Ying Yong emphasized that being good at accurately grasping the substantive legal relationship from the complex legal facts, being good at profoundly understanding the spirit of the rule of law from specific legal provisions, and being good at realizing fairness and justice in the organic unity of law, reason, and emotion is an important embodiment of "handling every case with high quality and efficiency". (Supreme People's Procuratorate website)
Hard news
1. Announcement of the Third Round of Inspection Targets of the 20th Central Committee With the approval of the Party Central Committee, the third round of inspections of the 20th Central Committee will carry out routine inspections of the party committees (party groups) of 34 units, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, and the People's Bank of China. (Xinhua News Agency)
2. The Office of the Special Working Mechanism for Reducing the Burden on the Grassroots and the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at the Central Level: On the 8th, three cases of rectification of formalism were publicly reported as typical problems of reducing the burden on the grassroots level, and all localities and departments were required to take their seats and reflect on themselves according to the typical problems reported. (Xinhua News Agency)
3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: In response to "the US plans to deploy medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region" on August 8, we urged the US to earnestly respect the security concerns of other countries and stop undermining regional peace and stability by strengthening forward deployment at China's doorstep. (CCTV News Client)
4. National Development and Reform Commission: On the 8th, it was reported that the "New Round of Action Plan for Improving Grain Production Capacity of 100 Billion catties" was officially compiled and introduced. The plan clearly states that by 2030, the new grain production capacity will be more than 100 billion catties, and the comprehensive grain production capacity of the country will be further enhanced.
5. Ministry of Education: On the 8th, it announced the results of the filing of higher vocational education majors in 2024, and a total of 66,870 majors will be enrolled in 2024. Compared with 2023, 6,068 new professional points will be added and 5,052 professional points will be withdrawn. (Ministry of Education website)
6. Ministry of Public Security: On the 8th, the Ministry of Public Security issued a reminder to prevent agricultural materials "flickering group", such criminal gangs continue to renovate their criminal methods, and sell fake and inferior agricultural materials at high prices in rural areas, resulting in serious economic losses for some farmers. If the general public discovers a suspected "flickering group", please promptly report it to the public security organs and relevant departments. (Ministry of Public Security website)
7. Ministry of Finance: On the 8th, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen introduced her visit to China. China and the United States agreed to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, continue to strengthen communication and cooperation in the economic and financial fields, strive to create a favorable environment for two-way trade and investment activities of enterprises of the two countries, and promote the healthy and stable development of China-US economic relations. (Xinhua News Agency)
8. State Post Bureau: In 2023, the full time limit of express delivery services in key areas across the country will be shortened by 2.40 hours year-on-year, and the public satisfaction score and 72-hour punctuality rate will both create the best level in history. (State Council Information Office website)
Hot news
1. Minimum wage standards in 31 provinces announced Recently, the official website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released the minimum wage standards of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government (as of April 1, 2024). Among them, the monthly minimum wage standard in Shanghai is 2,690 yuan, which is the highest in the country. Beijing's hourly minimum wage is 26.4 yuan, ranking first. (@中国新闻网)
2. The police reported that a traffic accident in Nanchang caused 3 deaths and 7 injuries On the 8th, the Nanchang police reported that a bus collided with a number of pedestrians on the same day, and 3 people died on the spot and 7 people were injured and sent to the hospital. At present, the 51-year-old driver Li has been controlled by the police, and after a preliminary investigation, Li suddenly lost consciousness with heart discomfort while driving the vehicle. The cause of the accident is under further investigation by the police. (@南昌交警)
3. Yantai Destroys Two Drug Factories Recently, the Yantai City Public Security Bureau cracked a case of manufacturing and trafficking drugs, arrested 16 suspects in drug production and trafficking, and smashed two drug factories. After investigation, Song and his father actually manufactured and sold etomidate under the guise of producing semi-finished cosmetics. In the net collection operation, the police seized 2.5 kilograms of etomidate crystals, more than 214 kilograms of liquid etomidate, and 15 tons of various raw materials for drug production. (China News Network)
4. On the 10th, the Year of the Dragon will be ushered in from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on April 10, the first "Year of the Dragon, the Dragon Moon, the Dragon Day, the Dragon Hour" of the year. This is an interesting phenomenon formed by using the traditional stem branch and zodiac rules to mark the year, month, day, and hour. This year, there will be three times, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on April 10, April 22 and May 4. (@人民日报)
5. The coordinator behind the confession of the suspect in the Moscow terrorist attack Russian media reported on the 7th that when the suspect in the Moscow terrorist attack was interrogated, he informed the "Crocus City" concert hall as the location of the attack and the coordinator of the escape route to the Ukrainian border was named Saifulo. The suspect said, "Saifulo informed us to go to Ukraine, to Kyiv." Someone there will give us 1 million rubles. (@参考消息)
Embarrassing news
Driver card bug free charging more than 90 times suspected of theft Recently, the Shanghai police announced a case of leakage of electricity bills by a driver of a new energy vehicle. An online car-hailing driver accidentally found a loophole in the charging applet, and not only charged it for free, but also spread the word of mouth to "gather wool" with his familiar peers. The police investigation found that a total of 7 vehicles had been charged without payment, with a cumulative amount of more than 20,000 yuan, of which a maximum of one license plate had accumulated more than 90 times of "free charging". At present, 7 drivers have been taken criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law on suspicion of theft. (@央视新闻)
Warm news
1. The old man fainted and the soldiers of the honor guard rushed to the ground Recently, in Beijing, an elderly man suddenly fell to the ground while queuing up to pick up his child, and a small group of people rushed out to give the old man cardiopulmonary resuscitation and artificial respiration. After the old man woke up, the medical staff rushed to take the old man to the hospital, but the young man quietly left. It is reported that he is Wu Jiangtao, a soldier of the honor guard of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Praise for the people's soldiers! (Xinhua News Agency)
2, the firefighter rescued the trapped girl from the 10th floor in the air "It's okay, it's okay, you sit tight, and when you come up, your eyes look up." Recently, in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the girl was trapped on the 10th floor of the air-conditioning outdoor unit platform. During the rescue, the firefighters kept calming the girl's emotions throughout the whole process. In the end, the girl was successfully rescued. (@央视新闻)
International News
1. Russia said that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was attacked by Ukraine many times The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation said on the 7th that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was attacked by a series of Ukrainian drones on the same day, injuring 3 employees of the nuclear power plant. Radiation levels at the nuclear power plant and adjacent areas have not changed since the incident. On that day, IAEA experts inspected the nuclear power plant. (CCTV News)
2. The number of bankruptcies of enterprises in Japan in fiscal year 2023 exceeds 9,000 According to a report released by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry Research Institute, a Japanese private enterprise credit investigation agency, on the 8th, the number of bankrupt enterprises with debts of more than 10 million yen (1 US dollar is about 152 yen) in Japan increased by 31.58% year-on-year to 9,053, and the total liabilities of bankrupt enterprises exceeded 2.46 trillion yen. (Xinhua News Agency)
Source: An Jian, head of the Central Political and Legal Commission