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Samsung Electronics will hold its 2025 strategy meeting next week. Yonhap News Agency quoted unnamed industry sources as saying that Samsung Electronics will hold its 2025 global strategy meeting next week. The electronic products business meeting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the semiconductor department meeting will be held on Thursday. The main agenda items include the upcoming Galaxy S25 smartphone. Lee Jae-yong, the company's executive chairman, is not expected to attend these meetings.CSRC: Optimize the supply of products in time and include the first batch of index funds in the catalogue of personal pension investment products. Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Financial Supervision and the CSRC jointly issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), and the personal pension system will be extended to the whole country on December 15. Personal pension is long-term, persistent and large-scale. By actively investing in the capital market, it is conducive to sharing the fruits of the development of the real economy and helping to maintain and increase value for a long time. As a representative of professional institutional investors in the capital market, Public Offering of Fund industry has been entrusted to manage all kinds of pension assets over 6 trillion yuan, creating good long-term income and accumulating rich management experience. According to the requirements of the Notice, the CSRC timely optimized the product supply and included the first batch of index funds in the catalogue of personal pension investment products. Subsequently, the CSRC will strengthen the supervision of personal pension investment in Public Offering of Fund, urge Public Offering of Fund managers to continuously improve their management and service capabilities, and better support the high-quality development of personal pensions. (CSRC)Li Bin: Fang Hongbo, chairman of Midea, will be the chief experience officer of Weilai ET9 and will test drive together. Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of Weilai, announced that Weibo said that Fang Hongbo, chairman of Midea, will be the chief experience officer of Weilai ET9 and test drive this upcoming administrative flagship together. Li Bin said that he asked Fang Hongbo three questions, and Fang Hongbo's answer about market competition was very good: "Actively participate in involution, compare cost and efficiency, and at the same time bravely jump out of involution, don't roll on the floor, and pierce the ceiling." (Sina Technology)

Sources: The Bank of Japan tends to keep interest rates unchanged next week. Five sources familiar with the Bank of Japan's thinking said that the Bank of Japan tends to keep interest rates unchanged next week because policymakers tend to spend more time examining overseas risks and clues about salary increase next year. Any similar decision will increase the possibility that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates at its meeting in January or March next year, when there will be more information about the wage increase next year. The source also said that there was no consensus within the Bank of Japan on the final decision, and some people in the Committee still believed that Japan had met the conditions for raising interest rates in December. This decision will depend on each member's belief in the possibility of achieving wage-driven sustained price increases in Japan. If upcoming events, such as next week's meeting of the Federal Reserve, trigger another sharp fall in the yen, thus intensifying inflationary pressure, the Bank of Japan may also agree to raise interest rates. But overall, many BoJ policymakers seem to be in no hurry to pull the trigger.The deposit interest rate is declining, and the interbank deposit receipt fund is popular. Under the background of the current downward trend of non-bank interbank deposit interest rate, the interbank deposit receipt rate is relatively more attractive, and the interbank deposit receipt fund has recently gained the popularity of funds. On December 12, Hongta laterite fund announced that the company held a meeting of fund share holders of the 7-day holding fund of Hongta laterite CSI interbank deposit certificate AAA index by means of communication to review the proposal on matters related to the continuous operation of the fund. Previously, the fund had a net asset value of less than 50 million yuan for 60 consecutive working days. However, the fund shares voted at the fund share holders' meeting were less than half of the total fund shares on the equity registration date, and failed to meet the effective meeting conditions. On December 5th, the 7-day holding period of the AAA index of China National Securities Interbank Deposit Certificate also announced the convening of the holders' meeting on the continuous operation of the fund, and the fund manager proposed to continue to operate the fund. (CSI Taurus)Nanchang land port "Changsha-Xiamen-Hong Kong Link" rail-sea intermodal train was opened. On the morning of December 12th, two trains loaded with "Made in Jiangxi" drove out of Nanchang land port in turn under the supervision of Ganjiang New District Customs, marking the official opening of the "Changsha-Xiamen-Hong Kong Link" rail-sea intermodal train from Nanchang land port to Xiamen Port, which greatly boosted the construction of modern logistics system in Jiangxi to a new level.

South Korea will gradually reduce the rice planting area to cope with the decline in demand. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs of South Korea said on Thursday that South Korea will strive to gradually reduce the rice field area to solve the problem of declining demand and adopt environmentally-friendly planting methods. Due to the change of diet structure, the annual rice consumption of Koreans has decreased, and the per capita rice consumption has dropped significantly from 61 kg in 2018 to 56.4 kg in 2023. At present, the total area of rice fields in South Korea is about 698,000 hectares, and the government says it plans to reduce the area of rice fields by 80,000 hectares next year. In addition, by 2029, the planting area of environmentally friendly rice will be expanded from 35,000 hectares this year to 68,000 hectares. The government will also allocate 244 billion won (about 170 million US dollars) to subsidize farms that grow strategic crops other than rice, such as wheat, beans and barley, which is an increase from 186.5 billion won this year.The Sharm el-Liberation Organization said that Syria will form a government led by technocrats, and Abu Mohammad Giulani, leader of the Syrian armed group "Liberation Syria" (also translated as "Sharm el-Liberation Organization"), said in a statement on December 11th that the organization will cooperate with international organizations to ensure the safety of the sites where chemical weapons may be stored. He also said that the security forces during the Assad regime will be demobilized. Giulani also said that he will form a technocratic government, and the current transitional government will be in power until March 2025. (CCTV News)Lan Foan, Minister of Finance, met with Nott, Chairman of the Financial Stability Board. On the afternoon of December 9, 2024, Lan Foan, Minister of Finance, met with Nott, Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, and his party by appointment. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on the work of the Financial Stability Board, the financial stability situation in China and the economic and financial policies of major economies. (Ministry of Finance website)