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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zacharova: The Russian Federation keeps in touch with all political forces in Syria. The Russian Federation is holding an operational headquarters meeting to discuss the security of Russians and Russian facilities in Syria.Tang Shikai, a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, will retire next year and is now in charge of the company's business in Greater China. Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. announced that Hubertus Troska, the current member of the board of directors in charge of the company's business in Greater China, will retire in 2025 as planned. He himself decided to take up a new position as a member of the board of directors of Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd. and a special representative for China affairs from February 1, 2025 to promote the company's business system in the world's largest market. Tang Shikai will officially retire on July 31, 2025.The General Administration of Market Supervision held an anti-monopoly compliance lecture hall for the automobile industry. On December 11th, the General Administration of Market Supervision held the ninth anti-monopoly compliance lecture hall in Beijing to give lectures on anti-monopoly compliance for the automobile industry. The General Administration of Market Supervision requires the business entities of the automobile industry to compact the responsibility of the anti-monopoly compliance subject, actively regulate business practices, establish and improve the anti-monopoly compliance system, and effectively prevent and stop the occurrence of monopoly behaviors. The General Administration of Market Supervision will continue to pay attention to the competition in the automobile industry, further promote the special anti-monopoly law enforcement actions in the field of people's livelihood, promote the formation of a fairer and more dynamic market environment, and continuously enhance the people's sense of acquisition, happiness and security. (City speaks Newspeak)

 China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance: In November, the sales volume of power batteries in China increased by 29.7% year-on-year. According to the monthly information of power batteries in November 2024 released by China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, the sales volume of power batteries and other batteries in China was 118.3GWh in November, up by 7.2% month-on-month and 40.1% year-on-year. Among them, the sales volume of power batteries was 87.8GWh, accounting for 74.2% of the total sales volume, up 10.9% from the previous month and 29.7% from the same period last year. The sales volume of other batteries was 30.5GWh, accounting for 25.8% of the total sales volume, down 2.2% from the previous month and up 82.3% year-on-year. From January to November, the cumulative sales volume of power and other batteries in China was 914.3GWh, a cumulative year-on-year increase of 42.8%. Among them, the cumulative sales of power batteries was 692.3GWh, accounting for 75.7% of the total sales, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 27.1%; The cumulative sales volume of other batteries was 222.0GWh, accounting for 24.3% of the total sales volume, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 132.5%.Tomato Fiction: In the coming year, 200 million yuan will be invested to support fine content. On December 11th, at the Tomato Fiction Creators' Conference, Tomato Fiction announced that it will invest 200 million yuan in cash to support fine content in 2025, and continue to launch a series of support plans to make efforts in IP ecology. In 2024, tomato novels launched more than 10 support programs, and a total of 120 million yuan of extra bonuses were distributed.

Henan: Users with large electricity consumption are encouraged to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems to realize peak load shedding and valley filling. The General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued a notice on the implementation plan of accelerating the integration of source, grid, load and storage in Henan Province, which proposed to actively develop diversified energy storage routes. Encourage the incremental distribution network to build long-term energy storage facilities to alleviate the long-term balance adjustment pressure caused by the mismatch between new energy generation characteristics and load characteristics. Encourage users with large electricity consumption to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems, realize peak shaving and valley filling, and promote the time-space matching of power generation and electricity consumption. In areas with high reliability requirements for power supply such as transportation and communication, we will encourage the construction of new mobile or fixed energy storage facilities to improve emergency power supply support capabilities.Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Syria's occupied areas will be liberated.Jin Guanping, Economic Daily: Implement more active and promising macro policies. The article points out that the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025, and put forward "implement more active and promising macro policies" and "strengthen unconventional countercyclical adjustment" in view of the macro policy orientation next year, and clearly implement more active fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. This important deployment has released a clear signal of strengthening macro-control and strong and steady growth. Implementing a "more active" fiscal policy means increasing fiscal countercyclical adjustment and improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy while maintaining policy stability and continuity. "Moderately loose" means that monetary policy will better reflect the supportive stance and orientation, maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and further reduce the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises and residents.