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The bauxite of the Guinea project of Tianshan Aluminum Group was shipped for the first time. According to the news of Tianshan Aluminum Group, on the afternoon of December 11th, local time in Guinea, Zeng Chaolin, the chairman of the company, attended and presided over the first shipment ceremony of the bauxite of Guinea project. This inaugural ceremony marks that the whole chain of the project has entered the operation stage. Subsequently, the company will increase infrastructure investment and mining scale, and gradually increase production capacity and transportation capacity. It is expected that the bauxite self-sufficiency rate will be 100% within two years, ensuring the company to obtain stable and low-cost bauxite resources and continuously maintain the competitive advantage of the integrated industrial chain.According to the data released by Shanghai Steel Union, the price of battery-grade lithium carbonate (in early trading) was the same as that of the previous day, with an average price of 76,450 yuan/ton.The ethylene plant of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I Project entered the commissioning stage, and ExxonMobil China announced that in December 2024, the 1.6 million tons ethylene plant of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I Project was handed over to China and entered the commissioning stage in an all-round way. ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project is located in Huizhou Daya Bay Petrochemical Park. The first phase of the project mainly includes ethylene plants, high-end polyethylene and polypropylene production plants in the middle and lower reaches, and supporting utilities, docks, storage and transportation and environmental protection facilities.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments: the situation of receiving personal pensions in advance was added. On December 12, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System. The circular calls for optimizing the supply of products, and on the basis of existing financial products such as wealth management products, savings deposits, commercial pension insurance and Public Offering of Fund, specific pension savings and index funds will be included in the catalogue of personal pension products. The notice also increased the situation of receiving the pension in advance. In addition to reaching the age of receiving the basic pension, completely losing the ability to work, and going abroad to settle down, participants who suffer from serious diseases, receive unemployment insurance benefits to certain conditions, or are receiving the minimum living allowance can apply for receiving the personal pension in advance. (Xinhua News Agency)Rifa Seiki: Xunmi Technology went to the company to investigate and discuss products such as end-horizontal machining center and thread grinder. On December 11th, Xunmi Technology co-president Lei Ming and his party visited and investigated Seiki Seiki in Japan. Chasing technology has visited the production workshop of Maichuang and bearing equipment in depth, and gained an in-depth understanding of the specific situation of products such as high-end horizontal machining center and thread grinder of Nissan Seiki from research and development to production. Not only that, the two sides also conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on the intelligent production line structure, core components, product accuracy and related issues in the practical application of a complete set of solutions. According to the data, Chasing Technology began to lay out robots in 2021, and successively launched bionic quadruped robot dogs, universal humanoid robots and other products. In September this year, Xunmi Technology released X50 series sweeping robots, equipped with the world's first "bionic mechanical foot obstacle-crossing technology".Backbone Technology: The holding subsidiary recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement on intelligent robots. Backbone Technology (002779) said on the interactive platform on December 12 that recently, Jiangsu Jianmi, the holding subsidiary of the company, signed strategic cooperation agreements with Dongsheng Zhilian and Nanjing Ji Rong respectively, working together to develop and apply automation, visualization and intelligent robots, and promoting the application and development of intelligent technologies in a wider range of fields. Jiangsu Jianmi's Lingrui P1 quadruped robot dog can be used for industrial park management, fire control and public security, daily inspection of power grid and electric power, and inspection of special operation scenes such as smelting enterprises and hazardous chemicals.

The individual pension system has been extended to the whole country. (Xinhua News Agency)Yunnan Germanium Industry: downstream customers didn't feedback that the company germanium was directly used in quantum chip products. Some investors asked Yunnan Germanium Industry (002428) on the interactive platform: in quantum computing and quantum communication, germanium is widely used in the manufacturing process of quantum chips, which can achieve excellent performance. Excuse me, does the company have germanium products used in quantum chips? Yunnan Germanium Industry replied that at present, the downstream customers of the company have not reported to the company that it is directly used in this product.Ma Huateng: Contributing to the economic recovery, Ma Huateng said in People's Daily that Tencent, as a digital technology enterprise, actively responded to the deployment of the country to expand domestic demand and actively explored the development of digital consumption. By optimizing consumer tools such as WeChat payment, the company tries to create and serve effective demand and promote economic cycle by testing the e-commerce business such as live delivery of water video numbers. At the same time, Tencent relies on the WeChat ecosystem to enhance the absorption and friendliness of employment and entrepreneurship. Last year, it provided employment income opportunities for more than 50 million people. In the future, Tencent will also increase investment, devote itself to technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and jointly contribute to the stable and healthy development of China's economy with the vast number of private enterprises. (People's Network)