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Market News: Apple CEO Cook will meet with US President-elect Trump on Friday local time.The United States announced the 72nd aid plan to Ukraine, Pentagon: The Biden administration has so far promised that the total aid to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. According to Fox News, the Biden administration announced on the 12th local time that it would provide Ukraine with a new military aid plan of $500 million. In addition, the Biden administration will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine until its term expires in January 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, so far, the total amount of military aid promised by Biden's government to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. However, CNN said that before Biden left office, the Pentagon was unlikely to use nearly $7 billion of surplus funds approved by Congress to arm Ukraine, mainly because the military's ability to replenish stocks was limited. (World Wide Web)China calls on the Security Council to resume the blanket exemption from the travel ban for relevant personnel of the Afghan interim government as soon as possible. On December 13th, local time, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2763, extending the authorization of the Monitoring Team of the 1988 Sanctions Committee (Taliban Sanctions Committee) for 14 months. The Chinese representative expressed the hope that the team would continue to actively perform its duties as authorized by the resolution, provide strong support for the work of the Committee, support the monitoring team to strengthen contacts with the Afghan interim government, and look forward to the team's early visit to Afghanistan. Geng Shuang said that the resolution reaffirmed the necessity of reviewing the 1988 sanctions regime and stressed that the Security Council sanctions should help promote Afghan peace and stability. The Taliban has been in power for more than three years, the situation in Afghanistan is generally stable, and contacts between the outside world and the Afghan authorities are gradually expanding. China once again calls for timely adjustment of the sanctions mechanism according to the development and changes of the situation. As a first step, the Security Council should restore the blanket exemption from the travel ban for relevant personnel of the Afghan interim government as soon as possible, so as to create conditions and facilitate the international community to strengthen contacts and exchanges with Afghanistan.

The United States announced the 72nd aid plan to Ukraine, Pentagon: The Biden administration has so far promised that the total aid to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. According to Fox News, the Biden administration announced on the 12th local time that it would provide Ukraine with a new military aid plan of $500 million. In addition, the Biden administration will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine until its term expires in January 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, so far, the total amount of military aid promised by Biden's government to Ukraine has exceeded $63.5 billion. However, CNN said that before Biden left office, the Pentagon was unlikely to use nearly $7 billion of surplus funds approved by Congress to arm Ukraine, mainly because the military's ability to replenish stocks was limited. (World Wide Web)The second vote of the National Assembly on the impeachment case of Xiyue is obviously shaken and split within the ruling party. At 4 pm local time on the 14th (3 pm Beijing time today), the plenary session of the National Assembly of South Korea will once again vote on the impeachment case of South Korean President Yin Xiyue. If the impeachment case is approved by at least two thirds, that is, at least 200 votes, Yin Xiyue will be suspended immediately and the impeachment case will be handed over to the Korean Constitutional Court for a final ruling. Since the opposition camp in South Korea, which supports the impeachment of Yin Xiyue, has a majority of 192 seats in the National Assembly, Yin Xiyue's impeachment case will be passed in the National Assembly of South Korea as long as 8 of the 108 ruling party members vote in favor. It is reported that the ruling party will hold another emergency meeting of members of parliament before voting this afternoon. According to the news coming out, the ruling party may revise its boycott position in the last voting and will not restrict members from entering the venue to vote. Some analysts even said that the number of members of the ruling party in favor of the impeachment case may far exceed eight. (CCTV News) 

A number of banks' "second response": individual pension fund accounts will be opened in batches. Since the news that the individual pension system was pushed from 36 pilot cities to the whole country was released, a number of commercial banks acted quickly and successively issued notices on the automatic account opening business of individual pension fund accounts. At the same time, commercial banks have made careful preparations, started the "customer grabbing war" ahead of schedule, and launched a number of preferential account opening packages. Insiders interviewed by reporters said that the comprehensive roll-out of the personal pension system is an important measure for China to cope with the changes in population structure and employment situation, which will have a positive impact on China's economic development and put forward new requirements for commercial banks to do a good job in personal pension financial services. (Securities Daily)Payment licenses have been cancelled for a total of 94 times, and 9 payment institutions "left the site" during the year. Recently, Kaidianbao Payment Service Co., Ltd. issued the Notice on Suspension of Payment Business, saying that it would withdraw and clean up the existing stock business in an orderly manner. According to the list of cancelled payment institutions updated by official website, People's Bank of China, as of December 13 this year, 94 payment licenses have been confirmed to be cancelled, and the number of payment licenses cancelled this year is 9. (Securities Daily)Han Wenxiu, Deputy Director of the Central Finance Office: China's GDP is expected to increase by about 5% this year. At the 2024-2025 China Economic Annual Meeting held at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, Han Wenxiu, deputy director of the Central Finance and Economics Committee Office and director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office, said that China's GDP is expected to increase by about 5% this year. The contribution to global economic growth is close to 30%; Employment and prices remained stable, the international balance of payments was basically balanced, and the country's foreign exchange reserves remained above 3.2 trillion US dollars. (CCTV News)