Japan Space Agency: H3 5 rocket with QZS-6 satellite was launched on February 1st.Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)The impeachment case of South Korean President Yin Xiyue is expected to be voted again in the National Assembly at 17: 00 on the 14th. According to the news of the Common Democratic Party, the largest opposition party in South Korea, the impeachment case against President Yin Xiyue is expected to be voted again in the National Assembly of South Korea at 17: 00 on the 14th (16: 00 Beijing time on the 14th).
A laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples. It is reported that a laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples, causing a "major loophole" in biosafety. On December 8th, Queensland Health Minister announced that there are currently 323 bottles of live virus missing. These include nearly 100 bottles of Hendra virus, two bottles of Hantavirus and 223 bottles of rabies virus-all of which are extremely deadly to human beings. The Queensland authorities insist that although these samples can be used as weapons, it is "not something that amateurs can do". The sample was lost in 2021, but investigators did not confirm the leak until August 2023. Queensland authorities waited for a year before being allowed to open the freezer where the samples were stored, and only this month were they able to confirm that the samples were lost. It is not clear where these samples may be or whether they have been destroyed. However, there is no evidence that the public is at risk of infection because of the disappearance of samples.The Taiwan Province Weighted Index closed down 221.45 points, or 0.96%, at 22,903.63 points on Wednesday, December 11th.The seminar on the listing, cultivation and market of 2024 magnesium futures was held. According to the news of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Magnesium Branch, on December 10th, the seminar on the listing, cultivation and market of 2024 magnesium futures was successfully held in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. During the meeting, the leaders of major domestic magnesium smelting enterprises held a symposium, made an in-depth analysis of the current supply and demand of raw magnesium market, and put forward countermeasures. The meeting unanimously agreed to take three measures: first, magnesium smelting enterprises jointly reduce production to make the supply and demand reasonably match; Second, Yulin Magnesium Group continued to collect and store, alleviating the financial pressure on producers; The third is to explore the guiding price mechanism linked to aluminum, and establish a quotation and trading platform for raw magnesium as soon as possible to standardize market behavior. The above measures aim to restore the magnesium price to a reasonable price as soon as possible and keep it relatively stable for a long time, so that all links in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain can obtain reasonable profits, dispel market doubts, stabilize market expectations, expand the industrial scale and boost the high-quality development of the industry.
There will be another high-speed railway station in Xi 'an. According to the news of WeChat official account released by Xi 'an, on December 7th, with the completion of the last concrete pouring, it marked the completion of the underground structure construction of Gaoling Station of Xi 'an-Yan 'an high-speed railway, which was built by Shaanxi Company of Xicheng Passenger Dedicated Railway and Beijing Engineering Bureau Group of China Railway, and entered the construction stage of the above-ground main structure in an all-round way.Barclays lowered its target share price of Nike from $81 to $79.Thailand's cabinet approved the reduction of the bailout fee for commercial banks.