Entering China1. He Yadong, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a press conference on the afternoon of January 23 that in 2025, the Ministry of Commerce will expand opening up and continue to relax market access. At present, the restrictions on foreign investment access in our manufacturing industry have been cleared. In the next step, we will steadily promote the opening up of the service industry and promote the expansion of pilot opening-up in the fields of telecommunications, medical care, and education. At the same time, we will also revise and expand the catalogue of industries that encourage foreign investment to enhance the attractiveness of investment policies.
2. Industry insiders believe that AI toys are one of the best landing scenarios for the current large model on the hardware side, and now, not only listed companies are laying out AI toy products, but also many start-ups have emerged and obtained tens of millions of yuan in financing. According to the data, the global AI toy market is expected to grow from about $8.7 billion in 2022 to $35.11 billion in 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 16%.
3. The responsible comrade of the low-altitude economic development department of the National Development and Reform Commission presided over the meeting to convey the requirements of the deployment and strengthen safety supervision, emphasizing that it is necessary to adhere to the control in order to let go, effectively strengthen the risk awareness, adapt measures to local conditions, grasp the rhythm, and gradually release the vitality of low-altitude economic development.
4. A number of international standard proposals for intelligent networked vehicles jointly developed by China and Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and other countries have been successfully approved by the International Organization for Standardization, including four relevant standards for driving assistance or automatic driving, including the test method of the door opening warning system, the test method of the rear traffic crossing prompt system, the test method of the combined driving assistance system and the natural language description method of the autonomous driving scene.
5. Douyin Group will build a tertiary hospital in Beijing on the hot search. Relevant people familiar with the matter said that the proposed new hospital is a new campus of the US-China Airy Cancer Hospital under the US-China Yihe Group, and it is not a new business.
6. According to institutional research, considering the basic completion of stocking in the downstream before the holiday and the continuity of large-scale chemical production, it is expected that the polysilicon inventory will show signs of upward trend in early February. Downstream cell factories entered the holiday season, reducing and suspending production significantly, weakening demand for wafer procurement, and slowing down overall transactions. In addition, wafer trading volume shrank in the price increase range, and downstream resistance to high-priced wafers appeared.
7. The first general meeting of the Chinese Football Professional League Federation was held in Beijing, and the conference read out the administrative license decision of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on approving the establishment and registration of the Chinese Football Professional League Federation, and the Chinese Football Professional League Federation was formally established, marking the official implementation of the reform of the separation of management and management of the Chinese Football Professional League.
8. According to the Charging and Swapping Branch of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, as of the end of December 2024, the total number of electric vehicle charging facilities in China will reach 12.818 million units, a year-on-year increase of 49.1%; Among them, there are 3.579 million public charging facilities and 9.239 million private charging facilities. From January to December 2024, the increase in China’s electric vehicle charging facilities will be 4.222 million units, with an average monthly growth of 352,000 units.
