Three-minute news breakfast on Saturday, June 8, 2024

1) On the afternoon of June 7, Xi Jinping met separately with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, who were in China for official visits, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

2) On June 7, Premier Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council to discuss policy measures to promote the high-quality development of venture capital, listen to a report on the current situation of the real estate market and considerations for the next steps in building a new model for real estate development, and to review and approve the "Guiding Opinions on Improving the Long-Term Mechanism for Basic Medical Insurance Participation" and the "Draft Regulations of the State Council on the Implementation of the Registration Capital Registration Management System of the Company Law of the People's Republic of China," and discuss the "Draft Law of the People's Republic of China on Responding to Public Health Emergencies."

3) In the first five months of 2024, China's total import and export value of goods increased by 6.3% year-on-year, with an 8.6% year-on-year increase in May. In the first four months, China's total service import and export volume reached 243.196 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%. The national agricultural irrigation area in 2024 has exceeded 400 million mu.

4) The Ministry of Transport and 13 other departments jointly promoted large-scale equipment renewal in transportation. The Financial Regulatory Bureau and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued another document: optimizing and improving the city coordination mechanism and providing precise support for the reasonable financing of real estate projects.

6) So far, the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program has completed afforestation and grass planting of approximately 40 million mu.

7) [Rule of Law] In May, 20,191,000 cases of illegal and harmful online information were reported nationwide. Tao Guanghong, former secretary of the Xiaoxian County Committee of Anhui Province, was put on trial. Yang Yilong, vice chairman of the Ankang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Shaanxi Province, is under investigation. Cai Jianping, former first-level inspector of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Natural Resources, was expelled from the Party.

8) [Military] The spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense answered reporters' questions on the US arms sales to Taiwan: We express strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to this, and have made serious representations to the US side. On June 7, the China Coast Guard 2501 formation conducted law enforcement patrols in the territorial waters of Diaoyu Island, and the spokesperson of the China Coast Guard Bureau issued a statement on Japan's hype about China's law enforcement patrols in the Diaoyu Islands: We urge Japan to act cautiously, reflect on itself, and stop its provocations.

1) Wang Yi will attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Russia from June 10 to 11 at the invitation.

2) The United Nations commemorated and honored 188 staff members who died in the line of duty in 2023. Denmark and four other countries were elected as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Seventeen leaders, including the US, UK, France, and Germany, issued a joint statement urging Hamas to accept the ceasefire agreement currently under discussion. The WHO confirmed the world's first case of human infection with the H5N2 avian influenza virus.

3) US media: Biden insists that he will not authorize Ukraine to use US weapons to attack the Kremlin or Moscow. A US judge ruled that Trump's former advisor Bannon will begin serving his prison sentence on July 1. US non-farm payroll employment in May was nearly 50% higher than expected, adding another variable to the Fed's interest rate cut this year. The US Boeing Starliner spacecraft docked with the International Space Station.

5) Macron announced that he will provide Ukraine with fighter jets and help train Ukrainian pilots.

6) The Israeli army announced that it has completed the deployment of a large-scale military operation against Hezbollah. An Israeli attack on a refugee camp in central Gaza killed five people.

7) Spain announced its accession to the International Court of Justice's lawsuit against Israel. Foreign media exposed a scene at the International Labour Conference: when the Israeli representative spoke, representatives from many countries left the venue in protest, and "half of the venue was empty."

8) In his weekly televised address, the leader of the Houthi armed forces in Yemen said that the US-British coalition launched 17 air strikes against areas controlled by the Houthi armed forces this week, killing at least 15 people.

6) Yesterday's closing prices: