Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.5% to 8,353.60 points.Alibaba Cloud will build new data centers in five overseas countries. On December 11th, Yuan Qian, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent International, revealed that in the next three years, Alibaba Cloud will invest in new data centers in five countries around the world, which are located in South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Mexico, and will further increase localized services and ecosystem construction. At present, Alibaba Cloud operates 85 available zones in 28 regions around the world, covering Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, the Middle East and Europe and America.Zhuo Chuang Information: In December, the cost side kept moving down the soybean meal price or followed the seasonal decline law. According to Zhuo Chuang Information, looking back on the whole year of 2024, the center of gravity of soybean meal price showed a downward trend. In December, the price of Brazil's soybean premium was continuously lowered, and the spot price of soybean meal was further lowered under the pressure of the cost side. The problem of soybean customs clearance repeatedly traded in the market has limited impact on domestic supply, while the breeding end has started to slaughter one after another, which has a negative impact on the demand for soybean meal. Therefore, Zhuo Chuang Information predicts that the spot price of soybean meal may follow the seasonal law in December, showing a downward trend.
Hainan Free Trade Zone concept changed partially. Hainan Ruize and Hainan Development both had daily limit, Hainan Ruize and Hainan Development both had daily limit, and Lishang Guochao, Hainan Haiyao, Hainan Expressway and Huawen Group followed suit.South Korea's Minister of Planning and Finance, Choe Sang-mu, told Congress that the downside risks facing the economy are increasing.Wuxi factory was completed last year, and Yakult in Shanghai was closed this year: The Shanghai factory has been integrated into the Shanghai headquarters. Recently, the news that Yakult, a lactic acid bacteria brand, closed its Shanghai factory attracted attention. It is reported that the Shanghai factory producing Yakult, a lactic acid bacteria beverage, stopped production on December 6, and the production will be fully transferred to other domestic bases such as Tianjin factory and Wuxi factory. In this regard, Yakult China said that the Shanghai factory has been integrated into the Shanghai headquarters, and the closure of the Shanghai factory is part of the business reform, with the aim of improving production efficiency through restructuring and integrating resource allocation to further improve sales and performance. (21 Finance)
Hangxiao in Hebei successfully won the bid for the steel structure project of Machta project in Mongolia. Recently, hangxiao (Hebei) Construction Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hangxiao in Hebei") successfully won the bid for the steel structure project of Machta project in Mongolia. The project is located in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. It consists of a tower, a podium, a natural museum and a sports center with a total construction area of about 104,000 square meters. The tower and podium adopt reinforced concrete core tube-steel frame structure.The first anniversary of the opening of "Yangtze River Train": 1,834 trains were opened, with 2.44 million tons of cargo transported. At 11: 00 am on December 11th, the 1799th and 1800th "Yangtze River Train" in 2024 respectively departed from Xianglushan Station in Wuhan and Chengxiang Station in Qingbaijiang, Chengdu, completing the annual opening task 20 days ahead of schedule. Up to now, the "Yangtze River Train" has operated 1834 trains and transported 2.44 million tons of goods. (Red Star News)Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)
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