Friday, January 17, 2025, Lunar Month 18th Briefing

NEWS TODAY

1. A mountain fire broke out in Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing, Guangdong on the 16th: nearly 600 people and 1 helicopter from all sides are fighting with all their might, and there are no casualties;
2. A 3.7-magnitude earthquake occurred at 18:52 on the 16th in Feidong County, Anhui Province, and the Earthquake Bureau reported: there were no casualties, which was an aftershock of the 4.7-magnitude earthquake in Feidong in September last year;
3. CDC: Influenza has entered the peak of the epidemic and may remain at a high epidemic level in a short period of time;
4. Medical Insurance Bureau: 81 co-ordination areas in 11 provinces have opened medical insurance wallets, and personal accounts can be cross-provincial mutual aid; By the end of 2026, the immediate settlement of the basic medical insurance fund will be fully realized;
5. It was revealed that the president of Vanke was taken away, and the relevant work teams in Shenzhen have been fully involved in Vanke, and Vanke may face takeover and reorganization;
6. Tianjin solicits opinions: Employees who rent affordable housing in Beijing and Hebei can withdraw housing provident fund;
7. Ministry of Commerce: The mobile phone subsidy does not need to be handed over to the old mobile phone, and it can be reduced immediately if you buy it online, and you need to complete information collection and product verification after purchase;
8. There is a major bug in Alipay: during the period from 14:40 to 14:45 on the 16th, all orders are discounted by 20%, and Alipay responds: the background is equipped with the wrong marketing template, and the user will not be recovered;
9. Hong Kong media: A jewelry store in Hong Kong was robbed by 4 masked robbers, the police said that a Pakistani man was arrested, and other robbers are being pursued;
10. A woman in Qingdao bought a 700,000-square-meter island in Japan Follow-up: I don’t plan to be private at present, and I will bring employees to the island in July and August for team building;
11. Foreign media: People familiar with the matter said that the Biden administration is considering letting TikTok continue to operate in the United States; It was revealed that TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi received an invitation to attend Trump’s inauguration;
12. U.S. media: Polls show that most Americans believe that the U.S. has regressed in a series of key areas such as immigration, the economy, and federal debt in the past four years;
13. Foreign media: India has successfully achieved space docking, becoming the fourth country to master this technology after the United States, Russia and China, Modi congratulated that the next step is to complete manned flights;
14. Foreign media: The collapse of a mud lake in a mining area in Myanmar caused a mudslide, which has killed 32 people and destroyed more than 50 houses.
15. Foreign media: Israel said that it had postponed its vote on the Gaza ceasefire agreement because Hamas had violated part of the agreement, and Hamas said it would abide by the agreement; Israeli forces continue to carry out air strikes on Gaza, killing more than 70 people;

The most important thing we can be most proud of is not that we never fall, but that we get up after every fall.