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The ethylene plant of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I Project entered the commissioning stage, and ExxonMobil China announced that in December 2024, the 1.6 million tons ethylene plant of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I Project was handed over to China and entered the commissioning stage in an all-round way. ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project is located in Huizhou Daya Bay Petrochemical Park. The first phase of the project mainly includes ethylene plants, high-end polyethylene and polypropylene production plants in the middle and lower reaches, and supporting utilities, docks, storage and transportation and environmental protection facilities.Xu Chun, former deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone, was "double-opened". According to the news from the Supervision Committee of Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, with the approval of Yunnan Provincial Committee, the Supervision Committee of Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection filed a case review and investigation on the serious violation of laws and regulations of Ren Xuchun, former deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone and former owner of the management committee. Xu Chun seriously violated the party's political discipline, the spirit of the eight central regulations, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and work discipline, which constituted a serious duty violation and was suspected of accepting bribes. After the 18th, 19th, and even 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he still failed to converge and stop, with serious nature and bad influence, which should be dealt with seriously. According to the Regulations on Disciplinary Actions in the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Supervision Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Law on Administrative Actions of Public Officials in People's Republic of China (PRC) and other relevant regulations, after being studied by the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and reported to the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee for approval, Xu Chun was decided to be expelled from the party. The Yunnan Provincial Supervision Commission gave him the punishment of dismissal from public office; Collect their illegal income; The suspected crime was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution according to law, and the property involved was transferred together.Genting Xinyao: The first prescription of itramod in Macau, China officially benefited Asian patients. Genting Xinyao announced that its first prescription of itramod was made in Jinghu Hospital in Macau, China on December 11th, which was the first prescription made by itramod after it was approved in Genting Xinyao Asia Authorized Zone, marking that this heavy product in the field of autoimmune diseases officially began to benefit Asian patients. Luo Yongqing, CEO of Genting Xinyao, said that the arrival of the first prescription of Ithmod in China and Macau was another milestone in the commercialization of Genting Xinyao. By 2030, the number of patients with ulcerative colitis in China is expected to more than double that in 2019, reaching about 1 million. There is a huge unmet demand for innovative therapies. Following the approval in Macau in April this year, Iturmod, as the third commercial new drug of Genting Xinyao, will bring new treatment options to more patients with ulcerative colitis.

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.A total of 211 cases of monkeypox have been reported in France this year. The French Public Health Agency issued a communique on the 11th, saying that 211 cases of monkeypox have been reported in France this year, including 2 new cases in the past two weeks. The communique said that these monkeypox patients are all adults, including 203 males and 8 females. According to reports, after viral gene sequencing, 168 cases were infected with monkeypox virus II, of which 61 cases were further diagnosed as infected monkeypox virus IIb. (Xinhua News Agency)The 10th anniversary of the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, today (12th) is the 10th anniversary of the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Up to now, the project has transferred more than 10.6 billion cubic meters of water to Beijing. In the past decade, Beijing has greatly reduced the amount of groundwater exploitation and shut down more than 1,300 self-prepared wells. The groundwater level in the plain area of Beijing has risen for nine consecutive years. The groundwater depth has risen from 25.75 meters in 2015 to 12.61 meters today, and the groundwater reserves have increased by 7 billion cubic meters compared with 2015. There are 81 springs in Beijing that have re-flooded. Since 2019, the five major rivers in Beijing, Yongding River, Chaobai River, North Canal, Juma River and Chanhe River, have all been "flowing rivers" after a lapse of 26 years, and have been flowing into the sea for four consecutive years. (CCTV News)

China Petroleum and others set up a joint exploration company in Xinjiang with a registered capital of 1 billion yuan. According to the enterprise search APP, PetroChina Tayou Joint Exploration (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. was recently established, with the legal representative of Liu Weibo and a registered capital of 1 billion yuan. Its business scope includes: mineral resources exploration. Enterprise survey shows that the company is jointly owned by PetroChina Taihu (Beijing) Investment Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Petroleum, and Xinjiang Yaxin CBM Investment and Development (Group) Co., Ltd.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.Market news: South Korea's ruling party has elected a new party leader, and the new leader said that a presidential election may be held soon.