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More than 100 underground money houses have been destroyed by public security organs to crack down on the money-changing party. The Ministry of Public Security held a press conference today (13th) to inform the public security organs throughout the country of the effectiveness of measures to crack down on the money-changing party and derivative crimes. According to the press conference, in May 2024, the Ministry of Public Security deployed the national public security organs to carry out special work to crack down on the rectification of the "money exchange party" and derivative crimes, cracked a series of cases, arrested a group of "money exchange party" personnel, and smashed a group of "underground money houses". The whole chain destroyed a group of criminal gangs and achieved remarkable results. Since the action, the Ministry of Public Security has listed and supervised 16 major cases; The National Immigration Bureau instructed the border inspection authorities in Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other places to actively cooperate with the special work class to carry out verification and disposal and personnel transfer. Since the special action, 142 personnel of the "money exchange party" have been seized and handed over to the special work class according to law. A total of 263 derivative criminal gangs suspected of illegal business operations, organizing illegal border crossing, fraud, illegal detention, etc. were destroyed in various places, and more than 100 underground money houses were destroyed, and more than 80 billion yuan of funds involved were identified. The headquarters in front of the Ministry of Public Security further strengthened the clues, organized relevant provinces to carry out five centralized arrests, arrested 846 suspects and cracked a number of major cases.US media: Hamas may agree to temporarily stay in Gaza after the ceasefire of the Israeli army. On the 12th, the US media reported that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had softened its negotiating position and might agree to temporarily stay in Gaza after the ceasefire. Hamas has not yet responded to this news. (Xinhua News Agency)It is predicted that the State Council Press Office will hold a press conference at 10 am on Monday, December 16th, 2024, and ask Fu Linghui, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics and head of the National Economic Statistics Department, to introduce the national economic operation in November 2024 and answer questions from reporters.

From January to October, the total output of lithium batteries in China increased by 16% year-on-year. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's lithium-ion battery industry continued to grow from January to October 2024. According to the announcement of lithium battery industry norms, enterprise information and industry associations, the total output of lithium batteries in China from January to October was 890GWh, up 16% year-on-year. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, the profit of China's lithium battery manufacturing industry increased by 39.4% from January to October. In the battery sector, the output of energy storage lithium batteries exceeded 200GWh from January to October. The loading capacity of power lithium batteries for new energy vehicles is about 405GWh. From January to October, the total export of lithium batteries in China reached 350.2 billion yuan, down 9.2% year-on-year, and the decline was 3.3 percentage points narrower than that in January-June.Zaks, managing director of the European Central Bank: If necessary, the interest rate can be greatly reduced. zaks, managing director of the European Central Bank, said that if economic development requires it, the interest rate cut may be increased. Although zaks thinks that the gradual approach is appropriate, he warns that the impact of geopolitics and war may bring "new impetus" to inflation. Kazakhstan said in a blog post on Friday: "If necessary, this range can be greater than 0.25%." "The current method-analysis/decision based on data and each meeting-is very suitable for this situation." Zaks also said that the future trend of interest rates is also very clear, that is, downward. The neutral interest rate is closer to 2% than 3%, so it is still necessary to cut interest rates sharply.Shanghai ranks third in the world! The Global Financial Technology Center Development Index (2024) was released. It was learned from the 6th Shanghai International Forum on Financial Technology that the Shanghai Financial Technology Industry Alliance released the "Global Financial Technology Center Development Index (2024)", which was released for the second consecutive year. The results of this index show that new york, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco rank among the top ten in the world. The index is mainly composed of indicators such as the development level, development potential and development environment of financial technology, which intuitively reflects the development of financial technology in different cities around the world in quantitative form. Compared with the previous index, the list of the top ten cities remains unchanged, but the gap between the index scores of cities has further narrowed, showing the increasingly fierce competition in the development of financial technology in major cities around the world. (CBN)

The 30-year main contract of treasury bond futures rose to 0.62%, which continued to hit a new high. In addition, the 10-year main contract rose by 0.37%, the 5-year main contract rose by 0.27%, and the 2-year main contract rose by 0.09%, which was another record.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology decided to set up the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology decided to set up the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee, numbered MIIT/TC1, which is mainly responsible for the compilation and revision of industry standards in the fields of artificial intelligence evaluation and testing, operation and maintenance, data set, basic hardware, software platform, large model, application maturity, application development management and artificial intelligence risk. The first Technical Committee of Artificial Intelligence Standardization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology consists of 41 members, and the secretariat is undertaken by China Information and Communication Research Institute.The exposure of Xiaomi Auto to the sea is accelerated, and overseas sales will be carried out around the local Xiaomi Home store. Many sources say that Xiaomi Auto is preparing to build a car business to the sea. The international department of Xiaomi Group has added a preparation team for the sea sales business, and is recruiting positions such as market research, project management and electric vehicle after-sales engineers. Under the Ministry of Automobile, Xiaomi's autonomous driving department has added a number of jobs for overseas markets to solve the problem of overseas legal verification and function landing of autonomous driving function. It is foreseeable that autonomous driving will be one of the key points of Xiaomi Automobile's betting on the sea. The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that after the formation of the team, Xiaomi will sell small quantities of cars overseas in recent years to test the market reaction and prepare for the large-scale development of the sea business. The overseas sales of Xiaomi Automobile will mainly rely on the Xiaomi Home store under the International Department. At present, Xiaomi has more than 100 direct stores overseas. In July this year, Lei Jun replied, "When can I buy Xiaomi cars in France?" The goal is to sell Xiaomi brand cars in Europe before 2030. Judging from the speed of the formation of Xiaomi Auto's sea team, this progress is likely to be accelerated. (36Kr Auto)