April 25, 2024
Quick facts
■ Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed during his recent inspection in Chongqing that Chongqing should benchmark the central tasks of the Party in the new era and new journey and the mission entrusted by the Party Central Committee, give full play to its comparative advantages and latecomer advantages, further deepen reform and opening up in an all-round way, actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern, strive to promote high-quality development, and strive to build an important strategic fulcrum for the development of the western region in the new era and a comprehensive hub for inland opening-up, and play the "three roles" to show greater achievements and continue to write a chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Chongqing.
■ On April 24, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the first China-Latin American and Caribbean Countries Space Cooperation Forum.
■ On Tuesday local time, the U.S. Senate passed a bill involving TikTok. According to reports, if U.S. President Joe Biden completes the signing, the terms will give TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, about nine months to sell the app or face a nationwide ban in the United States. At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 24th, a reporter asked a question about this. In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, "My colleagues and I and the spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce have previously clarified China's principled position on the passage of the TikTok-related bill by the US Congress, which you can read.
■ On April 24, the head of the Trade Remedies Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce said in response to a reporter's question on the EU's surprise inspection of Chinese companies' offices in Europe that China noted that the European Commission raided the offices of Chinese companies in Europe on April 23 to conduct inspections in the name of so-called enterprises receiving foreign subsidies. This is the fifth subsidy investigation launched by the European side since February 2024, all of which are directed at Chinese companies, and it is also the first time that an on-site search has been conducted. The Chinese industry is very shocked and strongly dissatisfied with this.
■ After the research and decision of the General Mission Headquarters of the Space Station Application and Development Stage, the mainland aims to launch the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft at 20:59 on April 25. The astronaut crew for the Shenzhou-18 manned mission is composed of three astronauts, Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu, with Ye Guangfu serving as the commander.
Economics and Finance
■ On April 23, the People's Bank of China held the 2024 Accounting and Financial Work Conference. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the meeting thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Economic Work Conference, and the Central Financial Work Conference, implemented the deployment requirements of the People's Bank of China's Work Conference, summarized the accounting and financial work in 2023, analyzed the current situation, and deployed key tasks in 2024. Zhang Qingsong, member of the Party Committee and vice governor of the People's Bank of China, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
■ On April 24, the State Administration of Financial Supervision and Administration Administrative Penalty Information Disclosure Form (Jin Zhi Du Zi [2024] No. 1) showed that Zhongan Online Property Insurance Co., Ltd. was fined 1.8 million yuan. The three deputy general managers at the time were all given warnings and fined.
■ Recently, the Heilongjiang Supervision Bureau of the State Administration of Financial Supervision issued two notices on the termination of the review of administrative licensing items. According to the announcement, before the regulatory authorities made a reply, Longjiang Bank voluntarily withdrew its application for the qualification review of Sun Chengyu and Liu Qian.
■ On April 24, the Intermediate People's Court of Jinan City, Shandong Province, held an open trial of the first instance of the case of Liu Liange, former secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the board of directors of Bank of China Co., Ltd., for accepting bribes and illegally issuing loans. Liu Liange pleaded guilty and repented in court. At the end of the trial, the court announced an adjournment and announced the verdict at a later date.
■ On April 23, 50 million shares of Bank of Chengdu ended the bidding on the Ali judicial auction platform. Among them, Zheshang Securities spent 424 million yuan to bid for 30 million shares, accounting for nearly 0.8% of the bank's total share capital, and is expected to enter the top ten shareholders of Bank of Chengdu.
Social hotspots
■ On April 24, some netizens found that the multiple accounts of the reader girl @高君雨 were banned or banned. Previously, Gao Junyu, the "point reader girl", was exposed to the falsification of the time of the operation video, which attracted the attention of the whole network.
■ Recently, a netizen in Nanjing reported that "riding a bicycle on the road was fined 50 yuan for being unlicensed". On the afternoon of the 24th, the "Nanjing Traffic Police" issued a notice saying: According to the "Jiangsu Provincial Road Traffic Safety Regulations" implemented on January 1, 2024, bicycles are no longer non-motor vehicles that should be registered, and they do not need to be licensed on the road. Accordingly, the traffic management bureau has revoked the penalty decision for riding an unlicensed bicycle on the road, and investigated the responsibility of the police for law enforcement mistakes.
International dynamics
■ On April 24, local time, the European Commission announced that it would issue an additional 1.5 billion euros of transitional financing to Ukraine on the same day. The funds will be used to maintain the basic functioning of the Ukrainian government. It is said that since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the EU's total support for Ukraine and its people has now reached 98.5 billion euros.
■ On April 24, local time, the director of the World Food Programme Geneva Office, Gian Kahlo Siri, said that the Gaza Strip could exceed the famine threshold for food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality within six weeks. UN humanitarian agencies use five stages to measure food insecurity levels. Of these, the fifth stage is "where the levels of hunger, death, poverty and extreme acute malnutrition are evident". Famine is declared when the hunger and mortality rates exceed a certain threshold.
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