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Market news: South Korean minister asked the opposition party not to impeach officials to prevent a government vacuum.Xu Ji Electric: It is estimated that China Southern Power Grid will win the bid of 468 million yuan. Xu Ji Electric announced that the company is expected to win the bid for the special bidding project of DC main equipment of Guangdong 220 kV Tianhe Tangxia Flexible Straight Back-to-Back Project of China Southern Power Grid, with the amount of about 468 million yuan. This project mainly embeds flexible DC in urban power supply area to realize flexible interconnection technology and improve the flexibility and security of urban power grid. After winning the bid and signing the contract, the performance of the contract will have a positive impact on the future operation of the company but will not affect the independence of the company's business. The flexible DC converter valve products developed by the company based on 6.5kV IGCT devices will be applied in this project, which is the first engineering application in the field of high voltage DC. At present, the project is still in the publicity stage of the winning candidate, and the company has not received the notice of winning the bid.The data of VAT invoice shows that the development momentum of "two new products" is good, and the effect of replacing old products with new ones is steadily promoted. The data of VAT invoice shows that in November, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by enterprises nationwide increased by 4.5% year-on-year. Cumulatively, from January to November, it increased by 6.1% year-on-year, which was 4.2 percentage points faster than the overall purchase amount of enterprises nationwide. Especially in key areas, the effect is obvious, for example, the equipment procurement of industrial enterprises has grown steadily. From January to November, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by industrial enterprises increased by 5.1% year on year. Among them, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by manufacturing, electric hot gas and water production and supply industries increased by 5.2% and 5.5% respectively year-on-year, which was higher than the overall growth rate of industrial procurement equipment. For another example, the equipment in business, information and technology industries is updated rapidly. From January to November, the amount of machinery and equipment purchased by modern service industries such as leasing business services, information technology services and scientific research and technology services increased by 10.4%, 16.6% and 19.6% respectively year-on-year, which were significantly higher than the overall growth rate of equipment purchased by enterprises nationwide, reflecting the accelerated development of industries related to new quality productivity. According to the data of VAT invoice, from January to November, the retail sales revenue of household audio-visual equipment such as televisions and household appliances such as refrigerators increased by 15.9% and 18.7% year-on-year, respectively, which was 11.4 and 14.2 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of retail industry, especially driven by the "Double Eleven" promotion, which increased by 28.8% and 74.4% year-on-year in November. On the other hand, the overall sales of furniture products are improving. According to the data of VAT invoice, from January to November, the sales revenue of furniture retail industry and sanitary ware retail industry increased by 16.8% and 12.5% respectively, which was 12.3 and 8 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of retail industry, and it showed a rapid growth trend in November, increasing by 36% and 18.8% respectively. (State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China)

The co-founder of OpenAI expressed his hope to provide products in Europe, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media X that he hoped to provide the company's products in Europe. "We want to provide our products in Europe ... we must also abide by the regulations," Altman said on X. Altman also said in the post that the release of European products may be delayed and some services may not be available.C3.AI US stocks rose more than 6% before the market, and its quarterly performance exceeded expectations, and it reached a strategic cooperation with Microsoft.UN Special Envoy for Syria: If they don't involve the wider Syrian minority, all parties risk further conflict.

Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong. According to the news of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, from December 8 to 10, Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, attended the joint meeting of the Mainland-Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in 2024 and delivered a speech at the symposium of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, and prepared to hold the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Business Conference. During his visit, Ren Hongbin met with Lee Ka Chiu John, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Qi Bin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He had extensive exchanges with Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and people from the Hong Kong business community. He had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening economic and trade cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong. He went to Jardine Matheson Group, HSBC Group, Swire Group and Cathay Group for investigation, and listened to work reports at the Hong Kong Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Patent Agency (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.Jiejie Microelectronics: The shareholding ratio of the controlling shareholder is passively diluted to 34.66%.The trade union chairman said that Japan's acquisition of REFILE may mean the long-term decline of American steel companies.