Three-minute news breakfast on Wednesday, April 23, 2025

 

1) A symposium on the series of lectures on Xi Jinping Thought on the Economy was held in Beijing. On the evening of April 22, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President William Ruto of the Republic of Kenya arrived in Beijing by plane for a state visit to China.

2) It is planned to commend 2426 national model workers and advanced workers for the "May 1st" International Labor Day in 2025, mainly frontline workers. Three ministries, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, will continue to implement measures of the unemployment insurance steady job and people's livelihood policy.

3) On April 22, the Shenzhou 20 mission completed the final full-area rehearsal before launch, and the launch site made preparations for the launch. The meteorological conditions at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center are suitable for the launch of Shenzhou 20.

4) National Disease Control Bureau: The overall infectious disease epidemic situation across the country is generally stable and controllable before and after the "May 1st" holiday.

5) The Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a reminder about suspected fraudulent activities involving elderly care APPs: It has never established or approved the establishment of the "Yimai Elderly Care" and "People's Welfare Project". The National Railway Administration has released two batches of railway industry technical standards.

6) China has achieved landmark results in grassland work, with an average annual restoration of over 46 million mu. China has established a conservation base for unique and rare plants in the Yangtze River Basin.

 

 

The water level of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, has begun to rise, exceeding 13 meters. China has made a major breakthrough in the exploration of "gold gas" helium, changing the long-term reliance on imports.

7) [Rule of Law] The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress officially launched an enforcement inspection of the Trade Union Law on April 22. In the first quarter, disciplinary inspection and supervision organs across the country punished 185,000 people, including 14 provincial and ministerial-level cadres. The Supreme People's Court released typical cases of people's courts handling solid waste pollution cases. 67 Apps were officially reported for illegally collecting and using personal information. Li Pengxin, former deputy secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee, was sentenced to death with a reprieve for bribery exceeding 822 million yuan.

 

 

Driven by greed and accumulating wealth through bribery, Li Gang, former head of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection stationed in the Organization Department, was arrested. Song Zhenbo, former member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Zibo Municipal Committee and vice mayor of Shandong Province, was "double-opened" for serious disciplinary violations and illegal activities. After the central inspection team entered Jiangxi, Dai Xiaohui, former vice chairman of the Jiujiang Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, took the initiative to report problems to the organization and is currently under review and investigation. On the morning of April 22, the second trial of the case of "a female student being burned by her ex-boyfriend for refusing to reconcile" opened in the Enshi Intermediate People's Court in Hubei Province, and a verdict will be delivered at a later date.

8) [Military] Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Li Shangfu, Minister of National Defense, met and held talks with the Indonesian Minister of Defense respectively. The People's Navy celebrated its 76th anniversary, and the Southern Theater Command Navy released a bilingual blockbuster film "To the South, To the Blue".

 

 

9) [Hong Kong and Macao] Most of the test events for the 15th National Games in the Hong Kong competition area have been successfully completed, and various events in the Macao competition area will be tested from May to June.

10) [Taiwan] The "great recall" has angered public opinion, and Jiang Wan'an proposed "overthrowing the cabinet" to counter the Lai administration. TSMC's annual report revealed that the US factory lost NT$14.3 billion, while the Nanjing factory earned NT$26 billion.

 

 

1) Wang Yi held telephone calls with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. The eighth batch of emergency humanitarian earthquake relief supplies from the Chinese government arrived in Myanmar.

 

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China recently dispatched a ceasefire monitoring group to supervise the ceasefire between the Myanmar military and the Kokang Allied Army. The Myanmar military announced an eight-day extension of the temporary ceasefire. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Japan's so-called "security alert": maliciously exaggerating the risks in China, China firmly opposes it. A Chinese lunar exploration model was unveiled at the Cité de l'espace in Toulouse, France.

 

 

China's import and export volume with Kenya in the first quarter hit a record high for the same period. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will visit China on April 23.

 

2) The UN Security Council held an open meeting on the Haiti issue on April 21, local time. Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations: The United States actually imposes a 10% so-called "benchmark tariff" on Haiti, a least developed country listed by the United Nations. How brutal, how absurd, how sad. Geng Shuang: We need multilateralism more than ever. International Monetary Fund (IMF): Significantly lowered the global economic growth rate for 2025 to 2.8%, with the United States having the largest downward revision among developed economies.

3) Trump announced that he will release a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine "within three days." Trump blasted Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to cut interest rates: Immediately! Trump called Powell a big loser. Trump increased his "attack" on the Federal Reserve, causing a sharp drop in US stocks. Trump defended the US Secretary of Defense's twice leaking sensitive military information, saying that worrying about military information leaks is a waste of time. Harvard University sued the Trump administration over the freezing of federal funding. More than 100 US universities jointly opposed the Trump administration's "excessive intervention." A Pentagon official said: China has the ability to shut down the global drone industry for a year. The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas had his handbag stolen while dining at a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C. on the evening of April 20, local time. US media reported that the White House has begun to look for a new Secretary of Defense, and the White House responded: Fake news. On April 21, local time, an airplane engine caught fire in the United States, and passengers were evacuated.

4) Putin approved the Russia-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership treaty. Putin signed a law to strengthen the punishment for acts of denigrating the Russian armed forces: Denigrating the Russian army could result in up to seven years in prison. Zelensky said that Ukraine, Britain, France, and the United States will discuss ceasefire matters in London.

5) Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru revealed that Trump expressed hope to reduce the trade deficit with Japan to zero, and also strongly demanded that Japan increase imports of American cars, and listed beef, rice, seafood, potatoes, etc. that he hoped to expand exports to Japan, and demanded that Japan lift tariffs and other restrictions. Japanese media: Komeito Party leader will visit China and bring a personal letter from Ishiba Shigeru.

6) The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed deep regret over the Japanese Prime Minister's offering of tributes to the Yasukuni Shrine. South Korean police are investigating a deepfake video targeting Lee Jae-myung.

7) Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman: Iran's negotiation goal has always been the actual termination of sanctions. The chairman of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthi organization in Yemen said that American aircraft carriers are no longer useful, and strategic bombers are no longer useful. Turkish police seized more than 800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

8) The official announced the cause of death of Pope Francis: He died of a stroke and heart failure.

 

 

1) On April 22, e-commerce platforms will completely cancel "refund only", and refund applications without returning goods after consumers receive the goods will be handled by the merchants themselves.

2) Net inflow, net increase! There are many highlights in China's cross-border capital flows in the first quarter. 9.41%! China's bank wealth management market size increased steadily in the first quarter year-on-year.

3) Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: In the first quarter, 119 substandard mobile applications were removed from shelves.

4) The Shanghai Stock Exchange held a special training session on the value management of central enterprises, with nearly 50 heads of capital operation from central enterprise groups participating.

5) China's chain hotel market continues to grow in 2024.

6) Toyota's wholly-owned automobile and battery company in China officially settles in Shanghai.

7) Yesterday's closing prices:

Shanghai Composite Index 3299.76/+0.25%

Shenzhen Component Index 9870.05/-0.36%

ChiNext 1928.43/-0.82%

Hang Seng Index 21562.32/+0.78%

 

 

1) The Ministry of Education added 29 new undergraduate majors, establishing a mechanism for the extraordinary setting of strategically urgently needed majors. 1839 new majors were added to universities nationwide in 2024.

2) The State Ethnic Affairs Commission: Increase support for pilot universities of interdisciplinary studies on the commonality of the Chinese nation, and build an independent knowledge system.

3) 5.615 billion domestic tourist visits in 2024, with many scenic spots offering three-day access with one ticket.

4) As a national geographic information public service platform, China's "Tiandi Tu" has a daily average service interface access volume exceeding 1 billion times. Chinese and foreign researchers reveal the law of matter evolution "from two-dimensional to three-dimensional".

5) Zhou Jihong appointed as the chairman of the Chinese Swimming Association, who once won China's first Olympic diving gold medal.

 

 

Jiang Yuyuan won the Laureus Award for Best Disabled Athlete of the Year.

6) Shooting World Cup Peru Station: The Chinese team won 4 gold, 3 silver, and 6 bronze medals, ranking first in the medal count.

 

 

7) Box office revenue exceeds 15.7 billion yuan! Ne Zha 2 extends its screening to May 31.

 

 

1) Beijing expands the coverage of its "trade-in" program, benefiting residents of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Beijing will introduce support measures for enterprises to cope with tariff challenges. Discounted price! Beijing will pilot the construction of affordable youth apartments.

2) Guangdong, Shanghai, and other places plan to introduce "Special Action Plans to Boost Consumption." Shanghai: Support the accelerated authorization of patent applications in the qualified artificial intelligence field. Shenzhen's foreign trade imports and exports in the first quarter reached nearly one trillion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 12.3% in March.

3) Salaries are paid during holidays, and welfare benefits remain unchanged. Shandong strengthens policies to reduce the burden of family childbirth. A tomato seedling in Shandong grows into a tree, producing 6,000 catties per year.

 

 

4) Heilongjiang Province launches the "Three Advances and Three Promotions" special action for universities in the year of technological achievement industrialization breakthrough. Jilin Province: Increase wage income and adjust the provincial minimum wage standard appropriately and in a timely manner.

5) A medium-sized gold mine was discovered in Hami, Xinjiang, with proven reserves of 5.8 tons. The first large-scale hydropower station in Tibet has accumulated power generation exceeding 20 billion kilowatt-hours.

6) Multiple areas in southern China experience rainfall, with local strong convection, and northern areas experience strong winds and sandstorms. From 8 PM on April 22 to 8 PM on April 23, light snow or rain and snow will fall in parts of western Tianshan and western southern Xinjiang, central and southern Qinghai, northeastern Tibet, northern western Sichuan Plateau, northeastern Inner Mongolia, and northwestern Heilongjiang.

 

 

 

 

1) Mangoes have a special aroma, which comes from terpenoids. Studies have shown that terpenoids have anti-cancer, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, neuroprotective, and analgesic effects.

2) Recommended foods for stomach care include soda crackers (neutralize stomach acid), bananas (protect the mucous membrane), and oats (easy to digest). It is recommended to avoid chocolate, mint, and carbonated drinks. Eat until seven-tenths full for dinner, take a 20-minute walk after meals, and do not wear tight-fitting clothing.