October 10, 2023, 3-minute news breakfast

1) The 18th National Congress of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions opened in Beijing. Party and state leaders, including Xi Jinping, attended to offer congratulations, and Cai Qi delivered a speech on behalf of the Party Central Committee.

On the afternoon of October 9, Xi Jinping met with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Senate led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

2) Premier Li Qiang emphasized the importance of fostering new momentum and advantages for high-quality development by accelerating digital transformation during a survey in Zhejiang.

3) National railway passenger volume during the National Day Golden Week reached 195 million. The Three Gorges ship lock's freight volume in the first three quarters reached 127 million tons, setting a new historical high.

4) The China Bulk Commodity Index for September was released, showing a continuous increase, indicating a stable and improving bulk commodity market.

5) Six departments jointly issued the "Action Plan for High-Quality Development of Computing Power Infrastructure," aiming for a computing power scale exceeding 300 EFLOPS and a smart computing power share of 35% by 2025.

6) A Chinese research team has achieved the first full-series magnetization and demagnetization of megawatt-level permanent magnet wind turbines. New progress has been made in the breeding of salt-alkali-tolerant soybeans, with yields exceeding 300 kilograms per mu.

8) [Military] The 2024 recruitment guide for military civilian personnel, with an interview-first, written-exam-later approach, has been released. The Sanya Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigation warning: from 9:00 to 13:00 on October 9 and 10, live-fire exercises will be conducted in parts of the South China Sea, prohibiting entry.

9) [Hong Kong and Macau] The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government raised the travel alert level for Israel, and the Immigration Department has received assistance requests from 17 Hong Kong residents there. Typhoon "Xiao" has moved away, and various transportation services in Hong Kong are gradually resuming.

10) [Taiwan] Ministry of Commerce: The deadline for investigating trade barriers imposed by Taiwan on mainland trade has been extended by three months. The Central Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association and Shih Hsin University in Taiwan jointly held the 23rd Cross-Strait Finance Forum in Harbin. The 15th Cross-Strait Chinese Wushu Masters Competition was held in Zhangzhou, Fujian.

International News

1) On October 9, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, held talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in Beijing. The Israeli embassy in China said it hoped to see stronger condemnation of Hamas from China, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded: China always stands on the side of fairness and justice, and the most important thing in the current situation is to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible. Is the kidnapped woman of Chinese-Israeli descent a Chinese citizen? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded: We are verifying the relevant information.

2) Two earthquakes in one day, the death toll has risen to 2445. The Red Cross Society of China has decided to provide US$200,000 in emergency humanitarian cash assistance to the Afghan Red Crescent Society. United Nations: More than 120,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip. The Council of the European Union approved the EU's new defense industry act. American economist Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics.

4) Medvedev criticized the US government's foreign policy for ignoring the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli issue while actively creating confrontation between Russia and Ukraine.

5) Foreign media: Bulgaria and other countries are evacuating citizens from Israel, and Poland and Hungary are sending military aircraft to evacuate people.

6) South Korea: The United States agreed to allow Samsung and SK Hynix to supply semiconductor equipment to their Chinese factories.

7) An earthquake occurred near Tori-shima in the Izu Islands, Japan, and tsunamis were observed in multiple locations. There have been no reports of casualties. A landslide in Cameroon killed 27 people.

8) The death toll from the new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel has exceeded 1100. An Israeli rescue organization said that a music festival was attacked by Hamas, and at least 260 bodies have been removed from the scene. Many people took flights back to Israel from the US to participate in the war, and the arrival hall of Tel Aviv airport was crowded with returning people.

The Israeli army said that 300,000 reservists have been mobilized in two days. Israel is selling foreign exchange to support its currency, which media reports say is the first time in history. Local Chinese in Israel said, "It feels like more shells have been fired in one day than in the whole year before."

9) 2 hours, 0 minutes, and 35 seconds! Kenyan Kipchoge broke the men's marathon world record.

1) The RMB cross-border payment system service has been upgraded, realizing a "non-stop" service during the long holiday for the first time.

2) The Ministry of Commerce organized an online live recruitment event for the "Domestic Service Recruitment Season."

3) The average national recruitment salary in the third quarter was 10,115 yuan, with Shanghai having the highest salary and Kunming having the highest salary growth rate.

4) Air ticket prices plummeted after the long holiday, with some as low as 10% of the original price.

1) The 2023 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival will be held from November 1st to 4th.

2) The exhibition "Historical Drafts - Global Rare Newspapers and Printing Culture and Art Exhibition" is being held in Guiyang.

4) Host Li Sisi has left CCTV; she previously hosted the Spring Festival Gala nine times.

1) Beijing plans to stipulate that commodity housing sales should have clear pricing, one price per unit. Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei signed an action plan for collaborative educational development: supporting the improvement of education quality in Xiong'an New Area. Tianjin Dongjiang Bonded Zone has increased by 10,000 enterprises in six years.

2) During the Asian Games, the six cascade power stations along the Yangtze River generated a total of 16 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.

3) Shandong includes 98.72% of existing cultivated land in the cultivated land retention quota. Ningxia will build a "3-kilometer charging service circle" in cities.

4) Many places in Hunan have disclosed the work of clearing out external personnel: one county's health and education systems each cleared out 500 people.

5) A four-room apartment was privately dug out at the bottom of a 33-story residential building in Chongqing, and more than 200 households lived there for seven or eight years without knowing it. The street responded: requiring residents to restore the basement to its original state.

6) The Yan-Yu High-speed Railway has a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, and Shaanxi will build 6 new high-speed railway stations.

7) "Xiaokui" weakened into a tropical depression and continued to move westward and southward, with rain and snow in western regions. From 8 pm on October 9 to 8 pm on October 10, light to moderate snow or snow mixed with rain is expected in parts of the Tianshan area of Xinjiang, western and southern South Xinjiang, northern Tibet, and central and southern Qinghai, with heavy snow in some areas; moderate to heavy rain is expected in parts of southeastern Tibet, central and southern Sichuan, central and western Yunnan, southwestern Guangdong, and northeastern Taiwan.

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