December 13, 2025, Saturday
Domestic News
- Grain Harvest: The total grain output of the country in 2025 exceeded 1.4 trillion jin, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%.
- Financial Easing: The growth rates of social financing and M2 in November exceeded expectations, with experts interpreting this as a manifestation of moderately loose monetary policy.
- New Regulatory Policies: The State Administration for Market Regulation plans to stipulate that car sales must be clearly priced, prohibiting the use of false "market prices" to deceive consumers.
- New Real Estate Policies: Shandong released a guide for "trade-in for new," allowing eligible buyers of new homes to reduce the number of provident fund loan applications.
- Social Hotspots:
- The Buddhist Association severely condemns the practice of releasing bottled water and rice as "fake release," stating that it goes against the concept of cherishing resources.
- Hubei Shiyan reported the "most busy group of five" fraud case, with several people dismissed from their positions.
- A vocational school in Guangxi faced scrutiny for purchasing 22 sets of clothing for 77,000, and the person in charge responded that it was compliant.
International Perspective
- South China Sea Dynamics: A small Philippine aircraft illegally intruded into Huangyan Island, prompting a strong warning and decisive expulsion from the Southern Theater Command.
- Japan's Annual Kanji: The character "bear" was selected (due to multiple incidents of attacks on people), and there have been frequent earthquakes recently (8 times above magnitude 4 within 12 hours).
- Geopolitical Conflicts:
- Clashes at the Thailand-Cambodia border resulted in casualties on both sides, with the Thai Prime Minister willing to mediate through a phone call with Trump.
- Venezuela condemned the U.S. military for detaining oil tankers and attempting to confiscate oil as "pirate behavior."
- International Games:
- The Central Bank of Russia sued the European Clearing Bank in response to the EU's "Russian-funded Ukraine" plan.
- Sports Reinstatement: Russian and Belarusian youth volleyball players will return to the international arena in 2026.
【Daily Quote】
The world is always the same; it is just our feelings and experiences that are different.
