Three-minute news breakfast on Tuesday, October 3, 2023

1) An estimated 16.4 million passengers are expected to travel by railway nationwide on October 2, with 906 additional trains added.

2) "China Sky Eye" has newly discovered 76 pulsars, including the faintest known pulsar.

3) The Chang'e 5 team won the International Academy of Astronautics' "Laurels Team Award".

Chang'e 5 lunar research samples will be open for international applications.

4) The China National Rice Research Institute is strengthening the promotion and application of high-quality and pest-resistant varieties.

5) At 12:41 pm on October 2, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Weining County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. Affected by the earthquake, the railway department urgently closed relevant sections of the Nei Liu Railway line.

6) A landslide occurred in Lishi District, Lüliang, Shanxi Province: 1 person was rescued, and 4 people are still trapped.

7) [Rule of Law] A man, Yu Mou, was legally punished by the Foshan Railway Police for forcibly "breaking through" a high-speed rail station checkpoint. Guangzhou police reported that a woman who occupied a seat and slapped a train attendant on a high-speed train has been transferred to the police station for processing.

8) [Military] Our peacekeeping defense infantry unit donated solar power generation equipment to the Gao District Hospital in Mali.

10) [Taiwan] Famous artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait paint the birthplace of Yandi, and the exhibition "The Mountains and Rivers Are So Beautiful" opens in Taipei.

B International

1) An execution plan for projects in the fields of literature, publishing, and translation between China and Saudi Arabia was signed in Riyadh. The Iraqi Council of Representatives voted to approve an agreement to exempt each other from entry visas for personnel holding diplomatic and service passports. A Chinese private aerospace company showcased its flagship product—the world's first successfully orbited liquid oxygen methane rocket model—at the International Astronautical Congress.

2) Scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

World Tourism Organization officials praised China's rural tourism for leading the trend. The World Bank expects developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific to grow by 5% this year. The EU announced that it will hold a meeting of foreign ministers in Kyiv.

3) US media: With partisan strife, the US government shutdown issue has only been postponed. Trump will appear in court in New York on charges of alleged property fraud. NASA is expected to launch the Psyche probe on October 12, which will be launched on a Falcon Heavy rocket and is expected to reach the asteroid of the same name in 2029 and conduct observations for two years.

4) The British defense secretary said that military instructors may be sent to Ukraine, and after Medvedev's warning, British Prime Minister Sunak changed his words. France signed more than ten agreements with Ukrainian military industrial enterprises.

5) Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced the official launch of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway.

6) Japanese government: In order to increase sanctions against Russia, it will restrict the export of used cars to Russia. The confidence index of major Japanese manufacturing companies has rebounded for two consecutive quarters.

C Finance and Securities

1) Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration: Continue to implement tax preferential policies for some national commodity reserves.

2) Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Will accelerate the revision and formulation of key standards for intelligent and connected vehicles.

3) It is estimated that the investment scale of China's power industry from 2020 to 2060 will exceed 10 trillion yuan.

4) The National Day real estate market is booming, with some properties selling 7.3 billion yuan in 10 minutes.

5) More than 100 A-share listed companies have launched repurchase and increase plans in September. China Evergrande: Has applied to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to resume trading at 9:00 am on October 3.

D Culture, Education, Sports and Entertainment

1) 40 projects were selected for the National Tourism Performance Classics List.

2) Ready to go! The ISU (International Skating Union) 2023 Shanghai Super Cup, one of the three major events in China, will start on October 3, with a total prize money of US$412,000.

3) The Chinese team won 4 gold medals in the canoeing stillwater event in one day. The Chinese team won the gold and silver medals in the women's 1-meter springboard diving. The Chinese women's trampoline team won gold and silver medals, with Zhu Xueying winning the women's individual trampoline championship, achieving a "Grand Slam." Hua Tian won the individual gold medal in equestrian eventing, and together with his teammates Liang Ruiji, Bao Yingfeng, and Sun Huadong, he won the team gold medal in equestrian eventing for the Chinese team. In the men's singles final of table tennis, Wang Chuqin defeated Fan Zhendong 4:3, winning 4 gold medals in the Asian Games. 0.01 seconds! In the men's 3000-meter relay final of speed skating, the South Korean team celebrated prematurely and was overtaken by Chinese Taipei, missing the gold medal and bursting into tears.

E Life Services

1) Beijing: In the first three days of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday, 100 enterprises achieved sales of 3.83 billion yuan. In September, the number of signed contracts for second-hand residential houses in Beijing was 14,262, approaching the prosperity and decline line of 15,000. Sihai Town, Yanqing District, Beijing held the final of the farmer karaoke competition.

3) Above-warning floodwaters will occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Han River. Several tourists were knocked down by the Qiantang River tide, and the resort urgently announced: Suspended from now on.

4) China's first high-speed railway directly connecting the Sino-Vietnamese border—the Fangchenggang-Dongxing Railway—has completed the laying of tracks, laying the foundation for operation at the end of the year. The "golden tourism line" connected by the Gui-Nan High-Speed Railway ushered in the holiday golden week.

5) It was reported online that a plane from an aviation club in Hefei crashed with passengers on board. The emergency bureau: There was indeed a plane crash. Club personnel: Temporarily suspended for rectification. It was reported online that a traffic accident involving a child occurred recently in a certain scenic spot in Xi'an, and the police denied the rumor.

6) Typhoon "Xiaoyin" will affect Taiwan Island, and the western Sichuan region will continue to experience rain. From 8 PM on October 2nd to 8 PM on October 3rd, there will be light snow or snow mixed with rain in areas such as the high-altitude areas along the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, the western mountainous areas of southern Xinjiang, the northern and western high-altitude areas of Tibet, and the southern high-altitude areas of Qinghai. Moderate to heavy rain is expected in parts of northeastern Inner Mongolia, southern Heilongjiang, central Jilin, southern Hubei, northern Hunan, central and southern Chongqing, and northern Guizhou.

F Healthy Living

1) Dictyophora is a high-potassium food. Potassium promotes the excretion of sodium from urine and protects against vascular damage. Meanwhile, the magnesium and calcium in Dictyophora interact to maintain normal heart function, promote blood circulation, and regulate blood pressure.

2) Eating dinner too late and/or too much (especially foods high in fat) can significantly reduce insulin sensitivity, disrupt the balance of gut microbiota, and increase body fat accumulation.