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Du Zhaocai, former deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment and fined 4 million yuan. On December 13, 2024, Wuhan Intermediate People's Court of Hubei Province publicly pronounced the bribery case of Du Zhaocai, former party member and deputy director of the State Sports General Administration and former party secretary and vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and sentenced the defendant Du Zhaocai to 14 years' imprisonment and fined 4 million yuan. The property and fruits of his crime shall be recovered according to law and turned over to the state treasury. It was found through trial that from 2012 to 2022, the defendant Du Zhaocai took advantage of his position as Party Secretary and Director of the Athletics Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Chinese Athletics Association, member of the Party Committee of the State Sports General Administration, assistant to the director, deputy director, and Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Football Association to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in matters such as event hosting, personnel arrangement, player transfer, etc., and illegally accepted other people's property totaling RMB 4,341. (CCTV News)Four departments: Strengthen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises and build a number of vertical industry models suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision issued the Special Action Plan for Digital Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (2025-2027) to strengthen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises. Give play to the platform role of on-site exchange activities in pilot cities of digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, publicize and promote typical application scenarios and solutions of artificial intelligence to empower small and medium-sized enterprises, and accelerate the replication and promotion of artificial intelligence applications in small and medium-sized enterprises. Encourage all localities to refer to the typical application cases and application maps of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the popularization of artificial intelligence technology in key business scenarios of small and medium-sized enterprises such as R&D design, manufacturing, quality inspection, operation and maintenance, and management. Strengthen the application foundation of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises. Support open source communities such as the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation to take the lead in establishing an artificial intelligence open source community, set up special artificial intelligence open source projects focusing on the characteristic needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, and provide training frameworks, development examples, testing tools and open source codes that can be replicated and easily promoted. Guide small and medium-sized enterprises to actively participate in open source projects and lower the threshold for the deployment and development of artificial intelligence. Encourage leading enterprises, trading institutions, platform enterprises, data service enterprises and other business entities to build public data sets and industry data sets, and provide high-quality data for small and medium-sized enterprises for artificial intelligence model training. Build a number of vertical industry models suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, and strengthen the supply of large model technology products for small and medium-sized enterprises.The retail price of refined oil may end up stranded. According to calculation, as of the seventh working day on December 13th, the average price of reference crude oil varieties was 70.58 USD/barrel, with a change rate of -0.87%, and the corresponding domestic retail price of gasoline and diesel should be lowered by 40 yuan/ton. At 24: 00 on December 18th, it is the last price adjustment window of the retail price in 2024, so the retail price is likely to end stranded. By December 13th, 2024, the domestic retail price of gasoline and diesel had experienced "9 up, 9 down and 6 stranded". After the fluctuation offset, gasoline and diesel (standard products) were reduced by 115 yuan/ton and 125 yuan/ton respectively. (Jin Lianchuang)

Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, will leave in May next year. On December 13th, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced that Ms. Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research), has resigned for personal reasons and will leave in May 2025. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will arrange an open recruitment for the post of Assistant President (Economic Research), and will make a separate announcement after the recruitment process is completed.TikTok for Business: Build a full-link training system and realize the integration of assessment and certification. Recently, TikTok for Business held the 2024 channel agent conference. At the meeting, TikTok for Business said that at present, TikTok for Business's service link has expanded from simple advertising to live broadcast with goods, short drama contracting, data co-construction and other aspects, and gradually formed a service model of combining e-commerce live broadcast with delivery, short drama distribution, contracting and delivery integration. In addition, TikTok for Business has also built a full-link training system to realize the integration of assessment and certification, and ensure the provision of high-quality services for enterprises going to sea.Minsheng Bank: New Hope Chemical was approved to increase its shareholding by no more than 68 million shares. Minsheng Bank announced that the State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau approved New Hope Chemical Investment Co., Ltd. to increase its shareholding in Minsheng Bank by no more than 68 million shares through the secondary market within six months. After the completion of the increase, New Hope Chemical and its concerted actions will hold no more than 2.24 billion shares of Minsheng Bank, with a shareholding ratio of no more than 5.12%.

Digital authentication has set up a new technology company in Tianjin. The enterprise search APP shows that Tianjin Mixin Tianxing Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Cheng Xiaozhuo as the legal representative and a registered capital of 30 million yuan. Its business scope includes: electronic authentication services; Software development; Information system integration service; Network and information security software development, etc. Enterprise equity penetration shows that the company is wholly owned by Digital Certification.Borui Medicine: Carboprost injection is planned to win the bid for the national centralized drug procurement. Borui Medicine announced that in the tenth batch of national centralized drug procurement in which Borui Pharmaceutical, a wholly-owned subsidiary, participated, carboprost tromethamine injection is planned to win the bid. This product is mainly used for 13-20 weeks pregnant abortion and postpartum hemorrhage. The specification is 1 ml: 250μ g, and the proposed bid price is 16.96 yuan/piece. In the first year, the agreed purchase base is 220,400 pieces, which are mainly supplied to Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces. If the contract is finally selected and signed, it will help the product to quickly open the domestic market and enhance the market share and brand influence of the company. The product obtained the drug registration certificate in March 2024, and has not yet generated sales revenue.Yiling Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.: The application for clinical trial of Lianhua Yuping Granule was approved, and Yiling Pharmaceutical announced that Beijing Yiling, a wholly-owned subsidiary, received the Notice of Approval for Clinical Trial of Drugs approved and issued by National Medical Products Administration on December 12, 2024, and agreed to carry out clinical trial of Lianhua Yuping Granule for qi deficiency syndrome of common cold.