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The Environmental Protection Department of the National Development and Reform Commission organized the liaison meeting of the coordination mechanism of cleaner production promotion departments in 2024. On the afternoon of December 10th, the Environmental Protection Department of the National Development and Reform Commission organized the liaison meeting of the coordination mechanism of cleaner production promotion departments in 2024 to sort out and summarize the latest progress, existing problems and difficulties in the implementation of cleaner production in 2024, study the key tasks in 2025, and promote the completion of the objectives and tasks of the Tenth Five-Year Plan.The downtime lasted more than 4 hours, and the failure of ChatGPT and Sora services has been fully repaired. On the afternoon of December 12, Beijing time, OpenAI updated the accident report and said that API, ChatGPT and Sora services have now fully resumed operation. Earlier today, OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT, its chat robot, experienced a worldwide downtime, and Sora and API were also affected. It is understood that the fault lasted about 4 hours and 10 minutes. OpenAI said that it will conduct a comprehensive root cause analysis of this failure.EU finalizes new sanctions against Russia: strike against the "shadow fleet". According to a report on the website of the German newspaper Sü ddeutsche Zeitung on December 11th, EU countries have reached an agreement on a new package of sanctions against Russia. Several diplomats told DPA that the new sanctions were aimed at strengthening the crackdown on the so-called "Russian shadow fleet" transporting oil and petroleum products. It is reported that more than 50 ships will be banned from entering EU ports. In addition, they can no longer get the services of EU enterprises. In June this year, the EU has taken preliminary measures to blacklist more than 20 Russian ships. It is reported that this is the 15th package of sanctions against Russia drawn up by the EU so far. The plan also stipulates that trade with more than 30 other business entities should be restricted, and the EU has determined that they should keep in touch with Russian defense and security departments. In addition, the EU also plans to impose an entry ban and asset freeze on some individuals. According to the report, senior EU officials are pleased that member States have reached a consensus on this. Kaya Karas, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said: "This will further weaken (Russian President) Putin's war machine." Roberta Metsola, Speaker of the European Parliament, said: "This sends another strong signal: our support for Ukraine will not weaken." The sanctions plan will be officially confirmed at the meeting of foreign ministers of member States in Brussels on the 16th, and then will be published in the official gazette of the European Union and come into effect. (Reference message)

Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Before the end of 2025, the system will be technically compatible with the T+1 settlement cycle. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced on December 12 that it will launch a plan to improve the post-trading service of the stock spot market. Starting from mid-2025, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will gradually introduce new post-trading functions on its OCP. The new functions include automatic report downloading and information exchange, real-time transmission and processing of transaction data, related positions and reference data, and real-time delivery instruction pairing. As part of the whole platform upgrade plan, HKEx will ensure that its system is technically compatible with the T+1 settlement cycle by the end of 2025. However, what kind of settlement cycle will be adopted in Hong Kong in the future will be decided after market discussion.Indian government: India's definition of "green steel" is that the carbon dioxide emission per ton of finished steel is less than 2.2 tons.Yijia released the chip-level game technology of "Fengchi Game Kernel" developed by OPPO, and Li Jie, president of China District, released the chip-level game technology of "Fengchi Game Kernel" developed by OPPO. Through the thorough reconstruction of the underlying kernel, the "Fengchi Game Kernel" can accurately balance the performance supply of the chip and the performance requirements of the game, and achieve a substantial upgrade in performance and game experience. For the underlying kernel of Android, more than 25,000 lines of original code are provided. In terms of game rendering pipeline reconstruction, it provides more than 34 thousand lines of original code. OPPO has applied for 254 patents based on the cumulative game optimization of Fengchi game kernel.

Reuters survey: Most economists expect Britain to basically avoid the impact of Trump tariffs. According to the Reuters survey, most economists expect that US President-elect Trump will impose tariffs of less than 10% or not at all on goods imported from Britain next year, which will have little impact on the British economy. This is in stark contrast to a similar poll last month. Last month's polls showed that people were generally worried that the EU would be hit harder. Britain officially withdrew from the EU in 2020. Part of the reason why economists are more optimistic about Britain is that although one-fifth of Britain's total trade is with the United States, the proposed tariffs will focus on goods, and only one-third of Britain's exports are goods.The Korea Composite Index closed up 1.60%.In the latest centralized purchase of sitagliptin tablets, the price dropped to less than 20 cents per tablet, with a drop of over 90%. The reporter learned at the scene of the tenth batch of drug centralized purchase that more than 30 companies bid for sitagliptin, which is known as the largest variety in this centralized purchase, including Huahai Pharmaceutical, Kelun Pharmaceutical, Zhengda Tianqing, tonghua dongbao, Zhejiang Pharmaceutical, Jiudian Pharmaceutical, Shiyao Ouyi, Chenxin Pharmaceutical and many other companies. Judging from the bidding results, the lowest bid price among enterprises has dropped below 0.2 yuan per piece, which is more than 90% lower than the limit price. Statistics show that in 2023, the sales of this product in the terminals of public medical institutions in China exceeded 2 billion yuan, and the sales of Merck, the original research manufacturer, accounted for more than 90%, so there is a large room for the replacement of generic drugs. The quotation of Meradong in this collection is about 7.37 yuan per piece. (science and technology innovation board Daily)