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Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, will leave in May next year. On December 13th, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced that Ms. Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research), has resigned for personal reasons and will leave in May 2025. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will arrange an open recruitment for the post of Assistant President (Economic Research), and will make a separate announcement after the recruitment process is completed. Gao Xiuying, the former deputy general manager of CITIC Daika Co., Ltd., was "double-opened". After investigation, Gao Xiuying, as a leading cadre of party member, a state-owned enterprise, abandoned his initial mission and deliberately opposed organizational review, taking the lead in breaking the discipline and breaking the law, seriously polluting the political ecology of his unit; Ignoring the spirit of the eight central regulations, illegally accepting gifts, banquets and travel arrangements; Violation of organizational principles, failure to report personal matters truthfully, running away from official positions, and making profits for relatives and friends in employee recruitment and job transfer; There is no bottom line for honesty, illegally holding shares of non-listed companies, and wantonly engaging in illegal business operations abroad to obtain huge profits; Failing to report and submit working materials to the superior unit as required; Moral corruption, violation of life discipline. Rely on enterprises to eat enterprises, harm the public and enrich the private interests, use their powers to ask for property from subordinates, illegally operate the same business of the enterprises they serve, and seek huge illegal interests.

Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment and fined 4 million yuan. On December 13, 2024, Wuhan Intermediate People's Court of Hubei Province publicly pronounced the bribery case of Du Zhaocai, former party member and deputy director of the State Sports General Administration and former party secretary and vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and sentenced the defendant Du Zhaocai to 14 years' imprisonment and fined 4 million yuan. The property and fruits of his crime shall be recovered according to law and turned over to the state treasury. It was found through trial that from 2012 to 2022, the defendant Du Zhaocai took advantage of his position as Party Secretary and Director of the Athletics Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Chinese Athletics Association, member of the Party Committee of the State Sports General Administration, assistant to the director, deputy director, and Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Football Association to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as event hosting, personnel arrangement, player transfer, etc., and illegally accepted other people's property totaling RMB 4,341. (CCTV News)Sony has registered the trademark of space robot. According to media reports, on December 13th, TGA award ceremony was held, and AstroBot won the annual game award. This game was developed by Team ASOBI and released by Sony Interactive Entertainment. According to Tianyancha's intellectual property information, in May 2020, Sony Interactive Entertainment Co., Ltd. applied for registration of two "cosmic robots" trademarks. At present, the educational and entertainment trademarks have been successfully registered, and the scientific instrument trademarks are displayed as "revocation/invalidation application under review". However, according to the trademark documents, a company's application for invalidation of such trademarks has been rejected. In addition, in November 2019, Sony applied to register two trademarks of "Cosmic Robot Search and Rescue Action", which are internationally classified as educational entertainment and scientific instruments. At present, they have all been rejected and are in an invalid state.Four departments: By 2027, the digital transformation of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises should be completely reformed. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision issued the Special Action Plan for Digital Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (2025-2027). According to the notice, by 2027, the "100-city" pilot project for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises has achieved solid results, and the digital transformation of specialized and special small and medium-sized enterprises should be completely reformed, forming a number of transformation benchmarks with a digital level of three or four; The digital level of the pilot provincial-level specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises has reached the second level and above, and the numerical control rate of key processes of industrial small and medium-sized enterprises in the country has reached 75%; The cloud access rate of small and medium-sized enterprises exceeds 40%. Initially build a digital transformation ecology of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is coordinated by the Ministry and the province, the integration of large and medium-sized enterprises, the adaptation of supply and demand in key scenes, and the strong public service guarantee, and empower small and medium-sized enterprises to specialize in special new development.

Blinken asked Turkey to urge Hamas to agree to the hostage agreement, and US Secretary of State Blinken asked Turkey to use its relations with Hamas to urge Hamas to agree to the hostage agreement. Blinken said that during his talks with the Turkish President and Turkish Foreign Minister, he discussed the necessity of Hamas saying "yes" to the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Blinken said: "We talked about the need for Hamas to agree to the (Gaza) agreement, which may eventually help end the war."The financial technology companies supported by Wal-Mart are valued at $2.5 billion. The traditional banking industry is under threat. Wal-Mart is injecting more funds into its newly-started financial start-ups, obtaining a valuation of $2.5 billion for this company, and indicating its ambition to further set foot in the financial services industry. According to informed sources, the world's largest retailer is jointly leading the financing of more than 300 million US dollars with investment company Ribbit Capital. This marks a new valuation for the company named One, in which Wal-Mart holds a majority stake. Wal-Mart has been providing products to many customers and employees in order to gain a greater foothold in the field of financial services. For the financial industry, the threat of Wal-Mart and other companies encroaching on its territory is getting closer and closer. Just last year, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon mentioned the competitive threat of Wal-Mart and other enterprises, pointing out that its hundreds of millions of customers and huge resources at its disposal were "extraordinary competitive advantages".Shen Zhiqun, China Investment Association: Accelerate the formation of technology and finance service support system with equity investment as the mainstay. On December 13th, the 2024 Yangtze River Economic Belt (Gongqingcheng) Fund Innovation and Development Conference with the theme of "Science and Technology Innovation Empowers High-quality Development and Venture Capital Helps' 1269' Action Plan" was held in Gongqingcheng, Jiangxi Province. Shen Zhiqun, Chairman of the Venture Capital Committee of China Investment Association and Assistant to the former President of the Macro Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, delivered a speech at the conference. Venture capital is an important capital force to promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Especially under the impetus of policies, an ecological environment that fully supports and promotes the high-quality development of venture capital is gradually taking shape and constantly improving and optimizing. (SSE)