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Japanese manufacturers' confidence index turned negative to the central bank's forecast in December. A short-term survey in Reuters, Japan, found that Japanese manufacturers' business confidence deteriorated further in December due to concerns about US protectionist policies. The survey of 505 large Japanese non-financial enterprises showed that manufacturers' confidence index fell from 5 in November to -1 in December, which was the first time since last February, and the number of pessimists exceeded optimists for the first time in 10 months. The loss of business confidence may cast a shadow over the Bank of Japan's forecast. The Bank of Japan had previously predicted that a steady recovery driven by rising wages and consumption would help inflation reach the 2% target in a sustainable way and justify further interest rate hikes. Many manufacturing industries have reported that business confidence has declined. Among electronic machinery manufacturers, steel and non-ferrous metal manufacturers, pessimists far exceed optimists.Anhui Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.: A major project that won the bid of 15.506 billion yuan was announced by Anhui Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., and the company and its subsidiaries recently received the notice of winning the bid. The winning project is the Yangtze River Bridge and wiring project of Taishan Road in Wuhu, S24 Hanghe Expressway. The project is located in Wuhu City, and its main contents include investment, financing, survey and design, construction, operation management, maintenance, debt repayment and handover, with a total investment of about 15.506 billion yuan. The construction period of the project is 48 months and the charging period is 356 months. This project was jointly won by a consortium composed of several companies, such as CCCC Second Waterway Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd..Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zacharova: The Russian Federation keeps in touch with all political forces in Syria. The Russian Federation is holding an operational headquarters meeting to discuss the security of Russians and Russian facilities in Syria.

New World Development sold Artisan Lab in Kowloon, Hong Kong for HK$ 620 million. Sing Tao Daily quoted an unnamed insider as saying that New World Development sold Artisan Lab in San Po Kong, Kowloon for HK$ 620 million. This 22-storey building was completed in 2022, with a floor area of about 120,000 square feet.One case of pre-application for residential land in Fengtai District, Beijing, with an initial total price of 4.008 billion yuan. According to official website of Beijing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Committee, one case of pre-application for residential land in Fengtai District, Beijing, with an initial total price of 4.008 billion yuan. This plot is plot No.056 [2024], namely plot FT00-2404-0005 of the reconstruction project of the cold storage in the southwest suburb of Fengtai District, Beijing, with a land area of 27,422.21 square meters and a planned construction area of 69,104 square meters. The pre-application for this plot will be accepted from December 9, 2024 to January 7, 2025.Meituan Enterprise Edition released the SIMPLE model: to meet the demands of enterprise consumption compliance, cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and experience improvement. Meituan Enterprise Edition held the second enterprise consumption management conference of "SIMPLE Activating Enterprise Endogenous Force" in Shanghai. At the meeting, Renmin University Business School, Meituan Enterprise Edition, Meituan Research Institute and Ipsos jointly released the SIMPLE model, focusing on serving enterprise consumption management and digital transformation. At present, the scale of consumption expenditure of enterprises in China has reached trillion level, and "integration of supply chain, scene management and control, and service performance" will become the key to competition in the future. (Sina Technology)

Guohai Securities gave Youyou Food Co., Ltd. the initial rating of buying.General Motors (GM): The unmanned business Cruise and GM Technical team will be merged, and the plan is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. According to the priority of GM's capital allocation, GM will no longer fund Cruise's self-driving taxi development business.The National Southeast Regional Emergency Rescue Center is about to be delivered. It was learned from the recent press conference held in Chaozhou, Guangdong that the National Southeast Regional Emergency Rescue Center is about to be delivered. The National Southeast Regional Emergency Rescue Center is located in Chao 'an District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. It is one of the six national regional emergency rescue centers in China, focusing on the emergency rescue of typhoons and their secondary and derivative disasters. It has basic functions such as emergency command, comprehensive rescue, training drills, equipment storage and transportation, etc., to ensure that it can reach the disaster area in the shortest time to complete the difficult rescue task. (CCTV News)