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FedEx signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong Customs on the facilitation of cross-border express customs clearance. FedEx announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong Customs on the facilitation of cross-border express customs clearance (CEFA) yesterday and became the first company to join the memorandum of understanding, which is expected to benefit from stable and efficient customs clearance procedures. CEFA aims to improve the efficiency of customs clearance of cross-border cargoes from the Mainland to Hong Kong. According to the Memorandum of Understanding, the Customs and Excise Department will provide customs clearance service for imported cargoes transported from the Mainland to Hong Kong at one of the FedEx service stations in the urban area of Hong Kong, and arrange for imported cargoes currently transported to Hong Kong by FedEx Guangzhou Asia-Pacific transshipment center to be transported by cross-border trucks equipped with electronic locks (E-locks) and global positioning systems (GPS).Guangxi Energy established a new energy company, and the enterprise search APP showed that Fengyuan (Pinggui District, Hezhou City) New Energy Co., Ltd. was established recently, with Xie Jianheng as the legal representative and a registered capital of 400 million yuan. Its business scope includes: energy storage technical services; Contract energy management; Big data service; Electric vehicle charging infrastructure operation, etc. Enterprise survey shows that the company is wholly owned by Guangxi Energy.Chen Guo, China Securities: The 2025 policy will focus on expanding domestic demand and AI+ in all directions, and the Central Economic Work Conference will be held in Beijing from December 11th to 12th. Chen Guo, chief strategy officer of China Securities, said that the meeting had seven highlights, including clarifying the growth target and fiscal and monetary policy measures, expanding domestic demand in all directions as the top priority of the policy, focusing on "AI+" in science and technology, focusing on implementation of reform measures, paying attention to coping with external shocks in opening up, strengthening the expression of real estate policies, and increasing efforts to improve people's livelihood. Chen Guo said that further RRR cuts and interest rate cuts from the end of 2024 to 2025 are worth looking forward to, and the easing of the liquidity environment has become a market consensus. However, this does not mean that liquidity is rampant, because the growth of money supply in the scale of social financing still continues the requirement of matching the expected target of the overall price level of economic growth. Chen Guo believes that the 2025 policy will focus on expanding domestic demand and AI+ in an all-round way, and the strength and direction of the policy are in line with expectations. With the support of policy expectations and liquidity, it is expected that the market will continue to show the characteristics of volatility. From the perspective of investment strategy, Chen Guo suggested focusing on non-bank finance, real estate chain, consumer electronics, machinery, construction, building materials, steel, social services, catering chain and other sectors. In terms of theme, it is suggested to pay attention to investment opportunities such as "duality" and "two innovations", supply-side optimization, new quality productivity, market value management of state-owned enterprises and CSI A500 index.

Shen Wanhongyuan: "Vigorously boosting consumption" is the first task of economic work next year. The Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 11th to 12th. Shen Wanhongyuan released a research opinion saying that in this Central Economic Work Conference, it can be seen that boosting consumption has once again become the top priority in 2025. The "two innovations" and "two heavyweights" in 2024 are important points of economic work. "Two Innovations" means to promote a new round of large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods, and "Two Innovations" means to implement major national strategies and build safety capacity in key areas, and continue to pay attention to the efforts of fiscal policies including extra-long special national debt in this field.What is the significance of fiscal and monetary policy adjustment? Expert: The path of "more active and promising" fiscal policy has been clarified. The Central Economic Work Conference, which closed yesterday, pointed out that a more active fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy should be implemented next year. What kind of signals are released behind these policies? In terms of fiscal policy, the Central Economic Work Conference requested that a more active fiscal policy should be implemented next year, so as to improve the fiscal deficit ratio, increase the issuance of ultra-long-term special government bonds, increase the issuance of special bonds for local governments, optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure, and secure the bottom line of "three guarantees" at the grassroots level. Experts said that these requirements clarified the path of "more active and promising" fiscal policy. Focusing on vigorously boosting consumption, the Central Economic Work Conference requires that special actions to boost consumption should be implemented next year, the basic pension for retirees should be appropriately raised, and the "two new" policies (large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods) should be implemented. (CCTV News)Texas, the United States, launched an investigation into technology platforms for the protection of minors. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday that the attorney general's office launched an investigation into more than a dozen technology platforms, covering practices on the privacy and safety of minors. Paxton added that the surveyed platforms include artificial intelligence chat robot startups such as Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram and Discord. Social media companies said that they will cooperate with officials to protect young users, and said that they have launched new tools aimed at protecting teenagers from surfing the Internet, including parental controls.

[The yield of 30-year treasury bonds fell below the 2% mark, and the active bonds of 30-year treasury bonds fell below 2% by 4.26bp, reaching 1.9999% as of press time.Tesla China will launch advanced intelligent summoning ASS function for vehicles with EAP or FSD. On December 13th, Tesla China official website launched a brand-new vehicle function-Actually Smart Summon. This function is suitable for Tesla vehicles with EAP (enhanced automatic driving assistance function) or FSD (full automatic driving capability). Tesla owners can automatically park the vehicle from the parking space and drive to the owner's side or the location designated by the owner on the mobile phone by operating on the Tesla application of the mobile phone, and the vehicle needs to be kept within the owner's sight during the moving process. It is reported that this function will be pushed to the owner through OTA remote software update function.The People's Procuratorate of Fujian Province decided to arrest Lou Wenlong according to law. The case of Lou Wenlong, former member of the Party Committee and vice president of Agricultural Bank of China, was investigated by the National Supervisory Commission (NSC) and transferred to the procuratorate for examination and prosecution. A few days ago, the Fujian Provincial People's Procuratorate made an arrest decision on Lou Wenlong on suspicion of accepting bribes. The case is being further processed. (highest inspection)