Entering China【Daily Newsletter, One Minute to Know the World】Good morning! Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025
1. Health Commission: From March this year, all public medical institutions will cancel outpatient prepayments and standardize inpatient prepayments; Ensure that counties with populations of more than 100,000 can provide hemodialysis services by the end of the year;
2. Medical Insurance Bureau: Investigation will be carried out on the possible quality risks of some centrally procured drugs;
3. Reform Commission: It will severely crack down on e-commerce behaviors such as “price increase first and then discount”, and deception of state subsidies;
4. The State Council approved 9 central cities: Changchun, Zhengzhou, Xiamen, Yinchuan, Guiyang, Wuxi, Suzhou, Changzhou and Urumqi. Among them, Suzhou was promoted to the eastern central city, and Zhengzhou was demoted to the regional central city;
5. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Actively explore effective ways to revitalize and utilize farmers’ idle housing;
6. Official announcements in many places: fireworks and firecrackers can be set off in an orderly, time-limited or limited area during the Spring Festival;
7. China will launch two manned spacecraft and one cargo spacecraft this year; 微信搜：每日资讯简报
8. China’s “artificial sun” completed the “high-quality combustion” of 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,000 seconds for the first time;
9. Beijing: Pilot withdrawal of housing provident fund to pay rent directly, and transfer it to housing rental agencies on a monthly basis;
10. Can Guangzhou pharmacies buy Huawei smart watches by swiping medical insurance? Health Insurance Bureau: This watch has an approval for “medical devices”;
11. Jiangsu: In 2025, new electric bicycles will be subsidized according to 30% of the final price, with a maximum of 1,000 yuan;
12. After the 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Tainan, Taiwan at 0:17 on the 21st, aftershocks continued, and some houses collapsed and people were trapped;
13. According to the report, the average year-end bonus of employees in 2024 will be 6,091 yuan, and 40% of employees will have a year-end bonus of less than one month’s monthly salary;
14. China and Russia will severely crack down on counterfeit Russian goods in China;
15. Under the mediation of the Chinese side, the Myanmar government and the Kokang Allied Forces ceased fire on the spot and ended the fighting;
16. Trump was sworn in as president of the United States and will repeal every executive order announced by Biden after taking office;
The slowest pace is not a step, but a wandering. The fastest step is not to leap, but to persevere.
