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Market News: Bain and GIC, the largest investment institution in Singapore, seek to sell shares of JUDO CAPITAL worth A $131 million.Scott Richardson, Chief Operating Officer of Celanese, will be promoted to CEO. Celanese, a chemical company, announced on December 10th local time that Scott Richardson, the current Chief Operating Officer of Celanese, has been appointed as CEO since January 1st, 2025, and will join the board of directors of the company. Richardson will succeed Lori Ryerkerk, who will resign as president, CEO and Celanese director at the end of the year. Edward Galante has been elected as an independent director of Celanese since 2013, and he will be the chairman of Celanese board, which will take effect after Ryerkerk leaves office.Hong Kong stocks continued to fall in the afternoon, and the Hang Seng Science and Technology Index fell by 1%, which once rose by more than 1%. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.5%.

The 2024 National Conference on Cultural and Tourism Project Construction was held. On December 10th, the 2024 National Conference on Cultural and Tourism Project Construction was held in Hefei, Anhui Province. The meeting demanded that we should accurately grasp the situation and opportunities faced by the construction of cultural and tourism projects, deepen the concept of integration, strengthen financial support, pay attention to scientific and technological empowerment, strengthen the guarantee of factors, strengthen the bottom line thinking, continue to promote the high-quality construction of cultural and tourism projects and the high-quality development of industries, and help to cultivate cultural tourism into a pillar industry. During the meeting, large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in projects in the fields of culture and tourism were held, and representatives of relevant parties carried out policy propaganda and supply-demand docking exchanges around the "two new" work.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.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 number of users of WeChat applet has reached 949 million. According to the latest data of QuestMobile, as of October this year, the cumulative number of users of WeChat applet has reached 949 million. On average, each user spends 1.7 hours a month using WeChat applets, while the average number of uses per month is close to 70, up by 15.1% and 5.2% respectively compared with the same period last year.The first anniversary of the opening of "Yangtze River Train": 1,834 trains were opened, with 2.44 million tons of cargo transported. At 11: 00 am on December 11th, the 1799th and 1800th "Yangtze River Train" in 2024 respectively departed from Xianglushan Station in Wuhan and Chengxiang Station in Qingbaijiang, Chengdu, completing the annual opening task 20 days ahead of schedule. Up to now, the "Yangtze River Train" has operated 1834 trains and transported 2.44 million tons of goods. (Red Star News)ST Huatong's newly established technology company includes Internet information service business. The enterprise search APP shows that recently, Shanghai Lingwu Technology Co., Ltd. was established, with the legal representative of Chen Qi and the registered capital of 1 million yuan. Its business scope includes: Internet information service; The second kind of value-added telecommunications services, etc. Enterprise equity penetration shows that the company is indirectly wholly-owned by ST Huatong.