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At midday, the main contract of alumina futures opened lower, and now it is down nearly 3% to 5101 yuan/ton. In the news, according to Shanghai Nonferrous Metals, on December 10th, 30,000 tons of alumina was sold overseas, with a transaction price of $680/mt FOB Western Australia, and the shipping date was in late January/early February.South Korea's Minister of Planning and Finance, Choe Sang-mu, said that he had tried his best to stabilize the turbulent financial market.Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)

The Mammal Area of the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Park will be reopened. Many monkeys in the park were infected with bacteria and died. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced that the Mammal Area of the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Park will be reopened on December 13th. On 14 October, the LCSD closed the mammal area in response to the death of monkeys infected with bacteria in the park, and immediately took a number of prevention and control measures, including comprehensive cleaning and disinfection of the cages; Arrange employees who take care of animals to wear protective equipment to remind employees to pay attention to their health; The bacterial test results of the employees concerned were all negative, and the test results of soil and water samples nearby were all negative. At present, the health status of mammals and staff caring for animals in the park is normal, and the LCSD will reopen the mammal area of the park. (Voice of Greater Bay Area)The number of foreign passengers entering and leaving the West Kowloon Station Port this year exceeded 1 million. The reporter recently (9th) learned from the West Kowloon Border Inspection Station of Shenzhen Border Inspection Station that since the beginning of this year, more than 1 million foreign passengers from 164 countries and regions have entered and exited through the West Kowloon Station Port, an increase of 90.2% over last year, and the highest single-day passenger flow this year exceeded 6,300. (CCTV News)Sanofi flu and COVID-19 vaccine get FDA fast track.

On the 10th, the continuous beam of Banzhuyuan Bridge of Xiyu High-speed Railway across Chongqing-Guangzhou Expressway was successfully closed, which is the first closed cantilever cast-in-place beam across expressway in Chongqing of Kangyu section of Xiyu High-speed Railway, laying a solid foundation for the construction of girder erection as scheduled. The Banzhuyuan Extra Large Bridge of Xi-Yu High-speed Railway, which was built by China Railway 14th Bureau, has a total length of 1,137.181 meters. The bridge spans the Chongqing-Guangzhou Expressway, with a continuous beam of (48+80+48) meters and cantilever casting with hanging baskets. It is understood that the Xiqiao High-speed Railway connects Shaanxi, Chongqing and Sichuan. After its completion and opening to traffic, it will be connected with Chengdu-Chongqing High-speed Railway, Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway and Chongqing-Kunming High-speed Railway under construction, Xi 'an-Yan 'an High-speed Railway and Xi 'an-Shiyan High-speed Railway, which will greatly facilitate people's travel along the route, consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, help urban-rural integration and regional coordinated development, and form a new pattern of western development. (CCTV News)Thailand's cabinet approved the reduction of the bailout fee for commercial banks.The security department of the President's Office of South Korea confronted the searchers. The special investigation team of emergency martial law of the National Investigation Department of the South Korean police tried to seize and search the President's Office today (December 11), but the confrontation lasted for 2 hours due to the postponement of consultations with the security department of the President's Office. The Special Investigation Team of Emergency Martial Law of the National Investigation Department of the South Korean Police Agency said that the seizure and search personnel arrived at the consulting room of the President's Office at around 11: 45 local time to go through the entry and exit procedures, and then showed the police's seizure and search warrant to the Presidential Guard. It is understood that there are four places for the seizure and search, including the President's Office, the Secretary's Office, the State Council Room and the Presidential Security Office. The special investigation team held a two-hour consultation with the security department of the President's Office, but no results were obtained. (CCTV International News)