Three-minute news, Thursday, May 11, 2023
Release time:
2023-05-11
Domestic:
2) The Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft was launched at 9:22 pm on May 10.

6) The National Blockchain Technology Innovation Center was established in Zhongguancun, Beijing, and officially put into operation on May 10.

7) After on-site review by officials from the World Record Certification Authority (WRCA), Longzi County, Tibet, was recognized as the "world's largest black highland barley planting base".

8) [Military] May 10, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Navy's carrier-based aviation force.

10) [Taiwan] The 2023 meeting on work related to Taiwan was held in Beijing, attended by Wang Huning, who delivered a speech. Foreign Ministry spokesperson: Urges the US to stop hyping up issues related to Taiwan under the guise of the World Health Assembly. Will NATO intervene in the Taiwan Strait conflict? NATO Secretary-General: NATO "is a European organization, will only defend the territory of European member states, and will not become an Asian organization". Lian Shengwen, vice chairman of the Kuomintang, left for Xi'an, Shaanxi Province on the afternoon of May 10 with his siblings to visit the tomb of his great-grandmother, Shen Taifuren. An accident occurred on the Taichung MRT, with a construction crane's steel beam falling onto a moving train, resulting in one death and eight injuries.

TSMC's April sales fell 14.3% year-on-year. Regarding the US's plan to move or destroy TSMC and Taiwan's potential entry into street fighting, Guo Taiming boasted: "Both mainland China and the US trust me relatively more, and I can negotiate with them with dignity." CTi News in Taiwan was shut down for nearly three years due to a refusal to renew its license; the court overturned the decision.
International:
1) At the invitation of the Portuguese government, Vice President Han Zheng visited Portugal from May 7 to 9, meeting with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister António Costa in Lisbon. 
Wang Yi met with an Iranian delegation in Beijing: consolidating and developing China-Iran relations is a common strategic choice for both sides. Qin Gang held a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Berlin. Qin Gang visited the Confucius Institute in Berlin and exchanged views with Chinese and foreign teachers and students. The United States returned two important illegally lost stone carvings to China; the Chinese Consul General in New York attended the repatriation ceremony.
2) The 42nd ASEAN Summit opened on May 10 in Labuan Bajo, a tourist town in eastern Indonesia, focusing on unity and economic integration. On May 8 and 9, several countries held events to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the victory of World War II.

5) The Belarusian president left Moscow urgently due to health reasons. Drought continues! Avocado production in Spain may plummet.

7) Iraq recovered about 6,000 artifacts lent to Britain a century ago.

Finance and Securities:
1) The first head of the National Financial Regulatory Administration is officially announced: Li Yunze will serve as the Party secretary. On May 10, directors of the banking and insurance regulatory bureaus from multiple regions went to Beijing to attend a meeting, and personnel from major state-owned banks took photos in front of the CBRC building.

3) The retail industry prosperity index reached 51.1% in May, remaining above the prosperity line for five consecutive months.
4) The upper limit of the interest rate markup for bank notification deposits and agreement deposits is constrained. Major state-owned banks cannot exceed the benchmark interest rate by more than 0.1 percentage points, while other banks cannot exceed it by more than 0.2 percentage points.
5) Tencent's big move! It has started recruiting individual creators, "poaching" people from Douyin, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu. China Ping An's total number of claims paid in 2022 exceeded 200 million, with a total amount exceeding 280 billion yuan.
6) Since the beginning of this year, new stock issuance has raised 151.245 billion yuan, with the Science and Technology Innovation Board accounting for 37.44%. 130,000 shareholders are stunned! *ST Sout and convertible bonds Sout convertible bonds "locked in delisting".
7) Yesterday's closing prices:
Shanghai Composite Index: 3319.15/-1.15%
Shenzhen Component Index: 11140.19/+0.14%
ChiNext Index: 2262.22/+0.73%
Hang Seng Index: 19762.20/-0.53%.
Culture, Education, Sports, and Entertainment:
1) The central government has allocated 156 billion yuan this year to support the implementation of policies such as "two exemptions and one subsidy." Ministry of Education: Preventing mobile phone cheating is a top priority for this year's college entrance examination security.
2) National Natural Science Foundation of China: Increase the punishment for "being contacted" by review experts.
3) Beijing Institute of Technology Press apologizes for the improper use of illustrations in historical readings: recalling and destroying them, and conducting a special investigation.
4) Feng Gong elected chairman of the new session of the China Quyi Artists Association. Yang Lan refutes immigration rumors: I have always been a Chinese citizen. The science fiction children's drama "Tiangong Teenagers" will premiere on the eve of June 1st.
5) The list of the national training team for the Honor of Kings project of the Hangzhou Asian Games is announced.
Life Services:
1) Beijing's first batch of foreign-invested vocational skills training institutions have been established. The largest diameter domestically produced shield machine, "Jinghua No. 1," is currently advancing at a depth of 40 meters underground in the East Sixth Ring Road underground renovation project in Beijing. 
The cumulative concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing in the first quarter was 47 μg/m³, returning to a normal improvement trend.
2) Shanghai has announced the second batch of planned commercial residential land, with 25 plots totaling 118.91 hectares.
3) The summer fishing moratorium has begun, Guangzhou's seafood market supply is sufficient, and the price of mantis shrimp has fluctuated. Some rivers in northern and eastern Guangxi may experience flood warnings. A photo of a woman in her 70s, a deputy district head in Shenzhen, with gray hair has gone viral, with the official response being that it is natural and not dyed.

5) Ningde, Fujian Province, has fully relaxed its purchase restrictions: there are no restrictions on household registration or the number of houses purchased in the central urban area. Three grassroots cadres drowned in Fujian. More than 30,000 mu of hybrid rice seed production in Lu County, Sichuan Province, has been basically completed.
6) There will be stronger rainfall in South China and other areas. From 8 pm on May 10 to 8 pm on May 11, there will be light to moderate snow or sleet in central and northern Tibet, eastern and southern Qinghai, and eastern Gansu; there will be moderate to heavy rain in eastern Tibet, northern Sichuan, southeastern Guizhou, southeastern Yunnan, southern Jiangnan, and South China, with local heavy rain or torrential rain in central and southern coastal Guangxi, southwestern coastal Guangdong, and central Hainan Island.

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