Saturday, May 18, the tenth day of the fourth lunar month
High-level dynamics
1. Xi Jinping: On the evening of the 16th, he held a small-scale meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Xi Jinping elaborated on China's consistent position and efforts to promote a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, stressing that China supports the timely convening of an international peace conference recognized by Russia and Ukraine, with equal participation of all parties and fair discussion of all options, to promote an early political settlement of the Ukraine issue, and is ready to continue to play a constructive role in this regard. (CCTV News)
2. Xi Jinping: On June 16, he sent a congratulatory letter to the 33rd meeting of the Council of the League of Arab States. Xi Jinping stressed that looking to the future, China is ready to work with Arab countries to continue to carry forward the spirit of China-Arab friendship, build a higher-level China-Arab community with a shared future, and contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind. (CCTV News)
3. Xi Jinping: Recently, important instructions have been given on tourism work. Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, adhere to integrity and innovation, improve quality and efficiency, and integrate development, coordinate the government and the market, supply and demand, protection and development, domestic and international, development and security, and strive to improve the modern tourism system, accelerate the construction of a tourism power, so that the tourism industry can better serve a better life, promote economic development, build a spiritual home, show China's image, and enhance mutual learning among civilizations. All regions and departments should effectively enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, divide labor and cooperation, pay close attention to implementation, and promote the high-quality development of the tourism industry to be stable and far-reaching. (CCTV News)
Political and legal news
Zhang Jun: On the 17th, he had a discussion with the first batch of retired leading cadres of local courts who were hired as specially invited mediators of the circuit courts of the Supreme People's Court. Zhang Jun emphasized that hiring veteran judges as specially invited mediators is not only a political consideration, but also a work need, and that specially invited mediators should persist in doing something for the elderly, continue to shine, and contribute to the modernization of trial work. (SPC website)
Hard news
1. Ministry of National Defense: The relevant subjects of the US-Philippine joint exercise are typical of the victory method of the Ah Q spirit. We are urging the Philippine side not to act rashly and stop all acts of infringement and provocation. China will continue to take resolute and resolute measures to resolutely defend its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea. (Ministry of Defense website)
2. Ministry of State Security: In recent years, state security organs have successively cracked a number of espionage cases in the aerospace field, effectively eliminating the risk of leakage of core secrets in China's aerospace field and effectively safeguarding the security of mainland countries. (WeChat public account of the Ministry of State Security)
3. Ministry of Emergency Management: In April, natural disasters on the mainland were mainly floods, hailstorms, droughts and geological disasters, and a total of 5.422 million people across the country were affected to varying degrees, and 47 people died and went missing due to disasters. (Ministry of Emergency Management website)
4. Ministry of Education: The formulation of the pre-school education law has been included in the 2024 legislative work plan of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the Ministry of Education actively cooperates with the National People's Congress to conduct research and discussions, and is revising and improving the draft to fully promote the early introduction of the pre-school education law. (Ministry of Education website)
5. Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: From 2019 to 2023, 220,000 old urban communities have been newly renovated across the country, benefiting more than 38 million households and about 100 million people. Nearly 300,000 kilometers of aging and hidden gas, water supply and drainage, heating, power supply and other pipelines have been renovated. (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development website)
6. The People's Bank of China and other departments: Recently issued a notice that for resident families who take out loans to purchase commercial housing, the minimum down payment ratio of the first housing commercial loan is adjusted to not less than 15%, and the minimum down payment ratio of the second housing commercial loan is adjusted to not less than 25%. (People's Bank of China website)
7. National Bureau of Statistics: From January to April, the sales area of newly built commercial buildings was 292.52 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 20.2%, of which the sales area of residential buildings decreased by 23.8%. The sales of newly built commercial buildings were 2,806.7 billion yuan, down by 28.3 percent. (CCTV News)
Hot news
1. Putin: It's like being at home in China On the 16th, Russian President Putin delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the "Year of Chinese in Russia." There was a scene during this period: Putin spoke for too long and did not give the translators time to translate in time, for which he apologized. "Sorry, I said it for a long time and didn't give the translator (time). I felt like I was at home. So, I thought that everyone here would be able to understand Russian. (@环球网)
2. The First Instance Trial of Jiao Xiaoping's Bribery Case On 17 July, the Chongqing Municipal No. 5 Intermediate People's Court held an open trial of the first instance of the bribery case of Jiao Xiaoping, former member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and deputy commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The procuratorate accused Jiao Xiaoping of illegally accepting property from others, totaling more than 67.43 million yuan, of which more than 54.91 million yuan was not actually obtained. The procuratorate requested that Jiao Xiaoping be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of accepting bribes. (@央视新闻)
3. Lianyungang reported the "ghost scale" incident of seafood vendors On the 16th, netizens posted a video saying that when shopping in a market in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, they found that a merchant was short of two catties, and was robbed of his mobile phone by the staff of the market organizer. On the 17th, Lianyungang reported that it was initially found that the merchant Xu involved had two behaviors of short catty, and at present, the market organizer has cleaned up the merchant involved and dismissed the staff Cao. (Haizhou today)
4. Man died of 50 pounds of weight loss for starvation of cancer cells After Lao Li, a man in his 50s, was diagnosed with colon cancer, he refused all protein foods, thinking that as long as he was so hungry, the cancer cells would "starve to death" due to lack of nutrition. In less than 2 months, Lao Li died of rapid weight loss. Doctors remind cancer patients to "eat normally", improve the intake of high-quality protein, scientific and appropriate nutritional support, and reasonable dietary intake are extremely important for cancer patients to maintain physical function, withstand various anti-cancer treatments, and prolong survival. (@中国新闻网)
5. Dragonfly fossils found in the mainland 165 million years ago A few days ago, the mainland research team found the most complete preserved fossils of the beautiful dragonfly family in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia, which is about 165 million years old. After discussion, it was determined to name: Ningcheng Khitan beautiful fly. (@央视新闻)
Embarrassing news
The truck pulled the tree and sat on the tree Recently, Zaoyang, Hubei. A light ordinary truck is not only full of green trees, but even more outrageous is that there are three people sitting in the trees...... The patrol police immediately stopped the car for inspection, severely criticized and educated the driver, Bai, and ordered him to immediately contact the vehicle to safely transfer the personnel. In accordance with the law, Bai was punished for driving without a license, driving a truck in violation of regulations, carrying passengers and failing to inspect the vehicle within the time limit, and required him to immediately conduct a safety inspection of the vehicle. (@中国警方在线)
Warm news
1. The children gave a warm response to the workers outside the window On the 16th, in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the children compared their hearts to the workers outside the window, but they didn't expect to get a warm response. Netizen: I was warmed by this pair of big friends and children. (@人民网)
2. The boy fell into the gap of the platform and everyone knelt to rescue On the 17th, at Quzhou Railway Station in Zhejiang, a boy accidentally fell from the gap between the train and the platform, and a number of enthusiastic people came forward to kneel to rescue, and the child was quickly rescued by everyone. (@荔枝新闻)
International News
1. The International Monetary Fund Warns that the United States Will Harm the Global Economy by imposing tariffs on China International Monetary Fund spokeswoman Julie Kozak said at a press conference on the 16th in response to a question about "the United States imposes tariffs on China" that trade restrictive measures will harm the global economy and that the United States should maintain an open trade policy. (CCTV News)
2. The United Nations raised its forecast for world economic growth this year The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs released the mid-year update report on the "World Economic Situation and Prospects for 2024" on the 16th, which is cautiously optimistic about the world economic growth prospects, and raised the world economic growth forecast to 2.7% in 2024 and 2.8% in 2025, 0.3 and 0.1 percentage points higher than the previous forecast respectively. (CCTV News)
Source: An Jian, head of the Central Political and Legal Commission