Friday, June 14, 2024: Three-Minute News Briefing

1) On the afternoon of June 13, local time, Premier Li Qiang held talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins at Government House in Wellington. Premier Li also met with New Zealand Governor-General Cindy Kiro. Premier Li signed a State Council order to promulgate the "Regulations on Fair Competition Review."

2) The General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the "Outline of the National Plan for the Building of Leading Party and Government Cadre Teams (2024-2028)."

3) Concerning the adjustment of the 2024 National Reimbursement Drug List, the National Healthcare Security Administration is soliciting public opinions.

4) The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters simultaneously launched a level-four emergency response for flood control and drought relief.

5) Ministry of Public Security: Focus on promoting integrated slow-traffic design at urban intersections and optimizing non-motorized vehicle traffic organization. The Ministry of Public Security introduced eight new reform measures to facilitate public convenience and benefit enterprises in traffic management, which will be implemented from July 1.

7) [Rule of Law] Various places have carried out joint inspections and law enforcement on illegally modified electric bicycles. Hubei Province reported five typical cases of "feeding off the enterprise" by subsidiaries of provincial state-owned enterprises. Liu Baoqin, former director of the Shaanxi Provincial Health Commission, is under investigation. Wu Jie, former deputy director of the Dalian Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Taxation Administration, is under review and investigation. Liu Runsheng, former vice chairman of Anyang Iron and Steel Group, was expelled from the party. Involving 50 billion yuan, Inner Mongolia cracked a major case of falsely issuing VAT invoices in the pharmaceutical field. Qingdao Intermediate People's Court: First instance verdict in the case of an 8-year-old boy beaten to death by a martial arts coach: two sentenced to life imprisonment, one given probation.

8) [Military] Taiwan media closely monitoring: From 6:00 am on June 12 to 6:00 am on June 13, 23 PLA military aircraft were active around the Taiwan Strait, "with drones approaching Hualien for the first time."

1) Wang Huning met with a delegation from the Communist Party of Vietnam. China added New Zealand to the list of countries eligible for unilateral visa exemption. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Urges the EU to listen to rational voices from all walks of life and stop politicizing trade issues. Chinese industry applies for government to launch anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigations into EU dairy products and pork? Ministry of Commerce responded: The investigating authorities will conduct a review in accordance with the law. If the conditions for filing a case are met, the investigating authorities will initiate the filing procedure. In May, the China-Europe freight train achieved a record high monthly volume.

2) United Nations: 120 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced. International Energy Agency: Global oil supply will be severely oversupplied by 2030. China calls on all parties to avoid any words or actions that could lead to increased tension on the Korean Peninsula. The IOC Executive Board proposed the French Alps and Salt Lake City, USA as the host cities for the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics.

3) The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, with a possible rate cut once this year. The United States and Ukraine will sign a bilateral security agreement during the G7 summit. US Secretary of State Blinken: Because Hamas wants to amend the ceasefire agreement, more Palestinians will suffer. Hamas officials said: No new amendments have been proposed to the ceasefire proposal. US Central Command said it destroyed Houthi missile launchers and drones. US media: US Attorney General found in "contempt of Congress." Annual salary as high as $56 billion! Musk announced that he won the compensation plan vote. Musk withdrew the lawsuit against OpenAI and its founders.

5) The Israeli army said that a total of 215 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel in one day.

6) On June 12, local time, a Greek cargo ship, "Mentor," was attacked near Hodeidah, Yemen, and one crew member went missing.

7) The Slovak Deputy Prime Minister announced that he will file a lawsuit against the former defense minister for donating fighter jets to Ukraine.

8) Japan's Nuclear Fuel Agency was exposed for long-term falsification of inspection records.

9) Myanmar police seized 700 kilograms of drugs in Shan State. The fire in Cyprus is temporarily under control.

10) A shipwreck in the Democratic Republic of Congo resulted in at least 80 deaths. A fire at an oil refinery in Erbil, Iraq, injured at least 10 people.

5) Yesterday's closing prices:

Shanghai Composite Index 3028.92/-0.28%

Shenzhen Component Index 9206.24/-0.69%

ChiNext 1777.79/-0.09%

Hang Seng Index 18112.63/+0.97%

4) New progress in world-class major archaeological discoveries! More than 900 cultural relics have been newly retrieved from a sunken ship site in the South China Sea.

6) Jiang Ping, a 17-year-old secondary vocational school student from Jiangsu, self-studied advanced mathematics, defeating many university students from prestigious universities and advancing to the finals of a global mathematics competition.

7) Wang Yongzhi, a pioneer of China's manned space program and a member of the first group of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, passed away at the age of 92.

6) There will be relatively strong and persistent rainfall in the Jiangnan and South China regions, precipitation and strong convective weather in North China and Northeast China, and high temperatures in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Henan, and Shandong. From 8 PM on June 13th to 8 PM on June 14th, there will be heavy to torrential rain in parts of central and northern Guangxi, southern Guizhou, southern Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, southeastern Hunan, central and eastern Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang, northern and western Fujian, central and northeastern Guangdong, and northern Heilongjiang, eastern Jilin, eastern Liaoning, and northeastern Shandong.