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)Baose shares: the related party transaction project that won the bid of 8.7 million yuan was announced by Baose shares. Recently, the company participated in the public bidding for the procurement of DCS and TCS disproportionation reactors for the 80,000-ton electronic-grade granular polysilicon industrial upgrading project of Shaanxi Nonferrous Tianhong Ruike Silicon Materials Co., Ltd., and received the Notice of Winning Bid on December 3, 2024, and confirmed the company as the winning bidder with the winning amount of 8.7 million yuan. It is now planned to sign the contract for the winning project. Shaanxi Nonferrous Tianhong New Energy Co., Ltd., the controlling shareholder of Tianrui Company, is a wholly-owned grandson company of Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co., Ltd., the actual controller of the company, so this transaction constitutes a connected transaction. The contract amount is 8.7 million yuan, and the delivery time is completed within six months from the date of signing the contract and receiving the buyer's formal order making notice. The payment method is installment payment according to the payment proportion of advance payment, delivery payment, performance acceptance payment and quality guarantee payment agreed in the contract.China Securities Association: Let the margin financing and securities lending business truly become a powerful tool to serve the people's wealth growth and promote the healthy development of the capital market. On December 6, 2024, China Securities Association held a plenary meeting of the professional committee on margin financing and securities lending business in Chongqing. The meeting emphasized that industry organizations should give full play to the functional role of margin financing and securities lending business, strictly implement relevant regulatory requirements, optimize business processes, improve institutional systems, provide quality services to customers, always bear in mind the people-oriented principle, and put the protection of investors' legitimate rights and interests at the core, so that margin financing and securities lending business can truly become a powerful tool to serve the wealth growth of the people and promote the healthy development of the capital market. The meeting summarized the key work of the Committee in 2024 and discussed the work plan for the next stage. In the next step, the Committee will further play a professional and "handle affairs, discuss and communicate" platform role to jointly promote the high-quality development of margin trading and securities lending business.
By the end of November, more than 1,400 enterprises in Shenzhen had participated in the pilot of high-level opening of cross-border trade and investment. The reporter learned from the People's Bank of Shenzhen that since the pilot of high-level opening of cross-border trade and investment was launched in Shenzhen, by the end of November, more than 1,400 enterprises in Shenzhen had participated in the pilot, with a business scale exceeding 90 billion US dollars. Among them, the newly registered amount and actual inflow of foreign debts of Shenzhen enterprises increased by 2.6 times and 3.1 times respectively year-on-year, which became another "facilitation" channel to attract and utilize long-term foreign investment.China Seismological Network officially measured that a magnitude 3.1 earthquake occurred at 17: 09 on December 13th in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang (41.23 degrees north latitude and 83.31 degrees east longitude) with a focal depth of 21 kilometers.Guangdong: In the next five years, 10 billion yuan will be invested to support the development of the tourism industry. On December 12th, a site meeting was held to promote the implementation of the spirit of the provincial tourism development conference in Guangdong. The meeting proposed to promote the implementation of the "three hundred" plan for cultural tourism investment, that is, to promote 100 major projects under construction and 100 key investment projects, to coordinate provincial financial investment of 10 billion yuan to support the development of tourism industry in the next five years, and to accelerate the implementation of the list of 100 major projects under construction and 100 key investment projects. According to the deployment, Guangdong will focus on promoting the implementation of the "three hundred" plan for cultural tourism investment and establishing "three lists" for key cultural tourism projects (namely, the list of projects under construction, the list of investment projects and the list of projects supported by financial funds). According to statistics, there are 103 major cultural tourism projects under construction in Guangdong province, with a total investment of 282.6 billion yuan, and the accumulated investment has reached 74 billion yuan by the third quarter.
The qualification of general manager of Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance Co., Ltd. was approved. On December 13th, the website of Beijing Financial Supervision Bureau issued an official reply, approving the qualifications of directors and general managers of Gert Christian Middelhauve Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance Co., Ltd.. The company shall require the above-mentioned personnel with approved post qualifications to strictly abide by the relevant regulatory provisions of the General Administration of Financial Supervision, take up their posts within 3 months from the date of making this administrative licensing decision, and report their posts in a timely manner as required. If he fails to arrive within the above-mentioned prescribed time limit, this approval document will become invalid, and the decision-making organ shall go through the formalities for cancellation of administrative license.The Bank of France expects France's economy to grow at zero month-on-month in the fourth quarter. The Bank of France, BNP Paribas, recently released the results of its monthly economic survey, and it is expected that France's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow at zero month-on-month in the fourth quarter of this year. (Xinhua News Agency)Indian market regulator: issue a draft notice to solicit opinions from retail investors on algorithmic trading. Algorithm trading should be provided by securities brokers and approved by the stock exchange.