October 18, 2024 (Friday) Three-Minute News Breakfast

2) The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, together with relevant departments, has launched a "combination of punches" of real estate policies: canceling various restrictive measures, mainly including purchase restrictions, sales restrictions, price restrictions, and standards for ordinary and non-ordinary residential buildings; lowering housing provident fund loan interest rates, down payment ratios, existing loan interest rates, and tax burdens for "selling old and buying new" housing exchanges; and implementing an additional 1 million sets of urban village and dilapidated housing renovations, increasing the credit scale of "white list" projects to 4 trillion yuan.

3) National Healthcare Security Administration: Standardize the management of medical insurance drug prescriptions outside the hospital, with mandatory checks for those with high paper prescription usage; accelerate the construction of electronic prescription centers, and no longer accept paper prescriptions for prescription transfers starting in 2025.

4) A new round of sample survey on the population and family development status has been launched: It will comprehensively analyze the reasons for not wanting to have children and not daring to have children.

5) Service items expanded to 120! The State Taxation Administration has released a new version of the "Going Global" Tax Guide.

The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences will strengthen the construction of disciplinary forces in three aspects of "Nannfan Silicon Valley".

7) [Rule of Law] Supreme People's Procuratorate: Cancel all unnecessary, inappropriate, and unreasonable assessments of procuratorial organs at all levels, especially grassroots procuratorial organs. The Supreme People's Procuratorate legally decided to arrest Du Zi, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Congress. Liu Mancang, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial People's Congress, is under investigation. The first-instance verdict in the "4.29" extremely serious collapse of a self-built residential building accident in Changsha, Hunan, which caused 54 deaths, was announced: 15 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two years and nine months to twelve years. Chengdu police report: 4 people were administratively punished for spreading rumors about "large-scale demolition in Chengdu".

9) [Hong Kong and Macao] Hong Kong is rated as the world's freest economy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The future will be better, and welcomes business people from all countries to seize opportunities.

10) [Taiwan] The DPP authorities claim: Banning the import of Huang Feihong peanuts from the mainland.

2) China's representative called for upholding and restoring the effectiveness of Security Council resolutions.

3) The US Secretary of Defense said that he authorized strikes against Houthi militants under Biden's orders. US media: The US military deployed the B-2 "Ghost" stealth strategic bomber for the first time. US media: Israel is ready to launch an attack, possibly retaliating against Iran before the US election. A US fighter jet crashed, and the fate of two pilots is unknown. A bridge collapse in Mississippi, USA, resulted in 3 deaths and 4 injuries.

6) North Korea confirmed that it has completely cut off rail and road connections with South Korea.