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Party Committee of CITIC Group: Firmly support the CPC Central Committee's decision to punish Xu Zuo. According to the news of CITIC Group official micro on December 13th, recently, the Party Committee of CITIC Group held a meeting to convey the decision of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to punish Xu Zuo. Xi Guohua, secretary and chairman of the Party Committee, presided over the meeting and made a speech, and members of the Party Committee made statements. Comrades attending the meeting unanimously expressed their firm support for the decision of the CPC Central Committee and the decision of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.Trump said that he will meet with Amazon founder Bezos next week. US President-elect Trump said on Thursday that he will meet with Amazon founder Bezos next week and stressed that he will continue to contact with technology giants before returning to the White House, including those companies that have signed contracts with the US government. Trump pointed out that he had met with Meta CEO Zuckerberg earlier and had extensive contact with Tesla CEO Musk.The central parity of RMB against the US dollar was reported at 7.1876, down by 22 points; The median price of the previous trading day was 7.1854, the official closing price of the previous trading day was 7.2630, and it closed at 7.2700 last night.

Klarna, a Swedish payment company, said that it stopped recruiting hundreds of employees because of AI during the year. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, a Swedish payment company planning to go public in the US, said that the company stopped recruiting a year ago, mainly because it invested in artificial intelligence (AI), which can replace the work of hundreds of employees in the company. According to Siemiatkowski, the number of employees decreased by 22% to 3,500 within one year, mainly due to brain drain. He pointed out that at present, about 200 employees in the company use artificial intelligence for their core work, and will improve the efficiency of artificial intelligence by accelerating the salary growth of employees.The concept of starting economy continued to strengthen, and the direction of exhibition and IP economy led the rise. Miao Exhibition, Liard and Guangbo shares rose daily, Fengshang Culture and Zhongqingbao rose by more than 10%, and Tianxiaxiu, Dafeng Industry, Silk Road Vision and Aoya shares were among the top gainers.Hebai Group: With the help of policy dividends, it will further stimulate new consumer demand and help the company's sales promotion. Hebai Group (000417) said on the interactive platform on December 13th that the company's top 100 electrical appliances actively grasped the new round of "trade-in" policy opportunity, adhered to "policy+activity" to stimulate new consumption potential, and quickly launched more than 33,000 subsidized goods in 8 categories of household appliances and 24 categories of smart homes. Since the implementation of the national subsidy policy in 2024, there have been more than 100,000 rejuvenation machines in stores in Anhui Province, with sales exceeding 400 million yuan, and the sales of household appliances in stores increased by 121% year-on-year. In the next step, the company will seize the time window, continue to integrate resources, closely focus on the national subsidy policy for household appliances in Anhui Province and Hefei consumer vouchers, and further stimulate new consumer demand with the help of policy dividends to help the company's sales increase.

Shanghai Securities: The pharmaceutical and bio-industry is expected to further repair its performance and valuation. The Shanghai Securities Research Report pointed out that with the support of policies and the adjustment of the internal structure of the industry, the pharmaceutical and bio-industry is expected to further repair its performance and valuation. It is suggested to pay attention to five directions: 1) Innovative drugs (with strong national policy support, the payment terminal is expected to further improve and go to sea to occupy the global market); 2)CXO (the negative impact of the biosafety bill event has been eliminated, and the demand for orders in the superimposed interest rate reduction cycle has increased, which is expected to usher in a double repair of performance and valuation); 3) Imitation and innovation (centralized procurement is expected to clear up, increase innovation, and traditional pharmaceutical companies will usher in new opportunities); 4) Traditional Chinese Medicine (the national policy supports the innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, and its performance is expected to maintain a good growth rate); 5) Medical devices (equipment updating, high-consumption innovation, low-consumption going to sea, etc.). Individual stocks can be concerned about: Baekje Shenzhou, Wuxi PharmaTech, China Resources Sanjiu and so on.List of stock repurchases of Hong Kong stocks: 43 stocks were repurchased by the company. On December 12, a total of 43 Hong Kong stocks were repurchased by the company, and the repurchase amount of 8 stocks exceeded HK$ 10 million. Among them, Tencent Holdings, AIA and Samsonite have the largest repurchase amounts, with the company repurchasing HK$ 704 million, HK$ 61,711,300 and HK$ 34,247,500 respectively. As of December 12, 274 Hong Kong stocks have been repurchased by the company this year, and the cumulative repurchase amount of 62 stocks during the year exceeded HK$ 100 million. Among them, Tencent Holdings, HSBC Holdings and AIA have the largest cumulative repurchase amount during the year, with the company repurchasing HK$ 104.602 billion, HK$ 40.706 billion and HK$ 31.059 billion respectively.Texas, the United States, launched an investigation into technology platforms for the protection of minors. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday that the attorney general's office launched an investigation into more than a dozen technology platforms, covering practices on the privacy and safety of minors. Paxton added that the surveyed platforms include artificial intelligence chat robot startups such as Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram and Discord. Social media companies said that they will cooperate with officials to protect young users, and said that they have launched new tools aimed at protecting teenagers from surfing the Internet, including parental controls.