Today's financial news
- National Bureau of Statistics: The employment index in the first quarter was stable and improving
- National Bureau of Statistics: CPI will slowly rise at a low level
- The central inspection team has been stationed in 17 units and announced contact information
- National fixed asset investment increased by 4.5% in the first quarter
- In March, the month-on-month decline in house prices in 70 cities narrowed
- In the first quarter, the passenger and cargo traffic of mainland civil aviation reached a record high in the same period in history
- In the first quarter, the number of passengers sent by railways nationwide exceeded 1 billion
- 14.14% of mainland citizens have scientific literacy
- 12306 will refuse to sell abnormal ticket purchases such as ticket hoarding
- A new batch of new energy vehicle models that are exempted from vehicle purchase tax are here
- Tesla lays off 10% of its global workforce
1. National Bureau of Statistics: The employment index in the first quarter was stable and improving
On the 16th, Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that GDP increased by 5.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year and 5.2% in the fourth quarter of last year, which was also stable and rising. Employment indicators are stable and improving. The average surveyed urban unemployment rate in the first quarter was 5.2 percent, down 0.3 percentage points from the same period last year. The economy has improved, and the employment situation has generally improved.
2 National Bureau of Statistics: CPI will slowly rise at a low level
On the 16th, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that the national consumer price (CPI) in the first quarter of this year was flat year-on-year. Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that from the perspective of future trends, we believe that CPI will slowly rise at a low level. On the one hand, the economy continues to improve, and aggregate demand is picking up. In addition, there are some factors that promote the recovery of demand, which will have a certain impact on the recovery of prices.
3. The central inspection team has been stationed in 17 units and announced the contact information
According to the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee on inspection work, the 15 inspection teams of the third round of inspections of the 20th Central Committee have begun to station in the inspected units. At present, the central inspection team has been stationed in 17 units and announced the contact information. It is understood that the central inspection team will work for about three months in the inspected party organization.
4. National investment in fixed assets increased by 4.5% in the first quarter
According to the operation of the national economy in the first quarter of 2024 released by the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to March 2024, the national investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) 100042 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.5% (calculated on a comparable basis), and the growth rate was 0.3 percentage points faster than that from January to February. Among them, the investment in the manufacturing industry increased by 9.9 percent, the growth rate accelerated by 0.5 percentage points, and the infrastructure investment (excluding the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water) increased by 6.5 percent, the growth rate accelerated by 0.2 percentage points.
In the first quarter, the passenger and cargo traffic of mainland civil aviation hit a new high in the same period in history
According to the latest news from the Civil Aviation Administration, in the first quarter of 2024, civil aviation transport production got off to a good start, with both passenger traffic and cargo and mail traffic hitting the highest values in the first quarter of the calendar year. The total transportation turnover of the whole industry was 34.93 billion ton-kilometers, an increase of 45.6% year-on-year and 12.9% over the same period in 2019. Among them, 23.86 billion ton-kilometers were completed on domestic routes and 11.07 billion ton-kilometers on international routes.
The month-on-month decline in housing prices in 63 cities in 70 cities narrowed
On the 16th, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that in March 2024, the transaction volume of newly built commercial housing and second-hand housing in 70 large and medium-sized cities increased compared with the previous period, and the month-on-month decline in the sales price of commercial housing in all tiers of cities narrowed slightly and expanded year-on-year. The sales prices of newly built commercial residential buildings in first-tier cities decreased by 0.1% month-on-month, 0.2 percentage points narrower than the previous month, while the sales prices of newly built commercial residential buildings in second- and third-tier cities decreased by 0.3% and 0.4% month-on-month, respectively, the same rate of decline as the previous month. The sales prices of second-hand residential buildings in first-tier cities decreased by 0.7% month-on-month, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from the previous month, while the sales prices of second-hand residential buildings in second- and third-tier cities both decreased by 0.5% month-on-month, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from the previous month.
7. In the first quarter, the number of passengers sent by railways nationwide exceeded 1 billion
China Railway Group announced that in the first quarter, the national railway sent 1.014 billion passengers, with an average of 11.147 million passengers per day, a year-on-year increase of 28.5%, and an average of 10,486 passenger trains per day, a year-on-year increase of 15.5%, with safe, stable and orderly transportation.
8. The proportion of mainland citizens with scientific literacy reached 14.14%
According to the results of the 13th Chinese Citizen Science Literacy Sampling Survey released by the China Association for Science and Technology on the 16th, the proportion of mainland citizens with scientific literacy will reach 14.14% in 2023, an increase of 1.21 percentage points from 12.93% in 2022, showing an accelerated growth trend. The imbalance in the scientific literacy of citizens in the mainland has been significantly alleviated, the gap between the scientific literacy of citizens in the eastern, central and western regions has narrowed for the first time, the scientific literacy of women has continued to improve rapidly, the gender gap has been further narrowed, the growth rate of scientific literacy of rural residents is higher than that of urban residents, and the imbalance between urban and rural areas has been further alleviated...... It has laid a solid foundation for the mainland to accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.
912306 will refuse to sell abnormal ticket purchases such as hoarding
The 12306 platform will identify and deal with abnormal ticket purchase behaviors, and abnormal behaviors such as purchasing, ticket grabbing, and ticket hoarding will be directly rejected or put at the end of the queue. In addition, 12306 does not recommend "buying long times short" and "buying short times long". "Buying a long and short" makes passengers pay more; "Buying a short and long" and making up the ticket on the train may trigger an alarm for overcrowding of the train, affecting the safety of train operation, and the railway department will ask the "buy a short and long" personnel to get off the train in accordance with the regulations, and the passengers' travel will be greatly affected.
10. The new batch of new energy vehicle models that are exempted from vehicle purchase tax is here
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the "Catalogue of New Energy Vehicle Models for Vehicle Purchase Tax Reduction" (the fourth batch), Xiaomi SU7, Zhijie S7, BYD Seal, Denza N7, etc.
11Tesla lays off 10% of its global workforce
According to Reuters, on the 15th local time, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc. in the United States, said in a letter to employees that he would lay off 10% of employees worldwide, which could affect about 15,000 employees. According to the data, Tesla's car deliveries in the first quarter of this year fell by 8.5% year-on-year to about 386,800 units, which was the first decline for Tesla in nearly four years and was also lower than market expectations. Musk has said that Tesla's growth rate in 2024 may be significantly lower than in 2023.