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Beijing Haidian Joy City will open on December 21st. According to WeChat official account news of "Beijing Haidian" WeChat, Haidian Joy City, the fourth joy city in Beijing, will open on December 21st. At present, many brands have come to an end, and the merchants in the venue have entered the preparations for opening. It is understood that Haidian Joy City is expected to introduce more than 280 brands.OPEC continues to lower its global oil demand forecast. According to Xinhua News Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released its monthly oil market report on the 11th, lowering its global oil demand forecast for 2024 and 2025. This is the fifth time that OPEC has lowered its global oil demand forecast for this year and next since August this year.Chuanrun helps Goldwind Technology roll off the production line of a new generation of deep-sea 22MW offshore wind turbines. According to Sichuan Chuanrun Co., Ltd., recently, Goldwind Technology successfully rolled off the production line of a new generation of deep-sea 22MW offshore wind turbines in Shantou manufacturing base, setting a new record for Guangdong's largest single-unit capacity offshore wind turbines. As a key technical partner, Chuanrun provided a complete set of cooling system and lubrication system for the unit, which demonstrated the company's technical strength and innovation ability in the field of wind power.

Xinwei launched the Intel Eagle Stream platform 4U8 card server P5500G5H. Recently, Xinwei launched the Intel Eagle Stream platform 4U8 card server P5500G5H, which has the characteristics of leading architecture, super computing power and flexible expansion, and provides strong computing support for different AI applications. Xinwei P5500G5H server can support running hundreds of billions of parameter models. In terms of framework and algorithm, it supports mainstream AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, caffe, mxnet and popular development tools such as DeepSpeed.Shibor reported 1.4820% overnight, down 4.6 basis points; In 7 days, shibor reported 1.6350%, down 8.7 basis points; In three months, shibor reported 1.7400%, down 0.4 basis points.Survey: More than 40% of analysts expect the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates this month, but most think that January next year is the best time. According to the latest survey, observers of the Bank of Japan predict that January is the most likely time to raise interest rates next time, but more than 40% of the respondents still expect to take action next week. According to the survey, about 52% of the 52 economists surveyed expect the Bank of Japan to raise the policy interest rate from 0.25% in January, compared with 32% in the last survey. About 44% of the respondents expect the central bank to take action at the end of the two-day meeting on December 19, down from 53% in the last survey. The survey results show that observers believe that the Bank of Japan's policy meeting this month is likely to move or not to move to a large extent. About 88% of the respondents said that the earliest possible time to raise interest rates in their risk scenarios is next week. Another equally high data shows that Japan's economic and price environment will justify raising interest rates this month.

The personal pension system has been extended to the whole country. On December 12th, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System. Since December 15th, the personal pension system has been extended to the whole country from 36 pilot cities (regions). (Xinhua News Agency)The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the United States for providing Ukraine with the proceeds from Russia's frozen assets and announced retaliatory measures. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the 11th local time, condemning the United States for providing Ukraine with a loan of $20 billion with the proceeds from frozen Russian assets as collateral, calling this behavior "theft". According to a report quoted by Russian Tass news agency from Russian Ministry of Finance, in retaliation, Russia will use the proceeds from the frozen assets of western countries in Russia to support Russia's regional and economic development.Wei Lanfeng became the vice president and chief operating officer of Porsche China, and Porsche announced that Philipp von Witzendorff will officially become the vice president and chief operating officer of Porsche China from January 1st, 2025. It is understood that in the past two years, Wei Lanfeng has served as President and CEO of Porsche Japan.