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The Nikkei 225 index closed up 1.21% at 39,849.14.On December 12, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 23.14 yuan/kg, which was the same as yesterday. According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the "200 Index of Agricultural Products Wholesale Price" was 121.01 on December 12, up 0.07 points from yesterday, and the wholesale price index of "vegetable basket" products was 122.15, up 0.08 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural products wholesale market was 23.14 yuan/kg, which was the same as yesterday; Beef is 60.10 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday; Mutton 59.19 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday; Eggs are 10.19 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday; White striped chicken was 17.74 yuan/kg, down 0.5% from yesterday. The average price of 28 kinds of vegetables monitored is 5.02 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday; The average price of six kinds of fruits monitored is 7.15 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday. Crucian carp 19.28 yuan/kg, down 1.6% from yesterday; Carp 14.30 yuan/kg, down 0.6% from yesterday; Silver carp 10.10 yuan/kg, down 3.3% from yesterday; Hairtail is 41.11 yuan/kg, up 1.3% from yesterday.Jilin: Set up an investment fund of 1 billion yuan to guide the ice and snow industry. According to the news of "Jilin Publishing" WeChat WeChat official account on December 12, recently, the General Office of Jilin Provincial Party Committee and the General Office of the provincial government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Ice and Snow Economy in Jilin Province". Sun Guangzhi, director of Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, said that the "Implementation Opinions" focused on the ice and snow equipment industry. Industry-University-Research will be promoted to tackle key problems through collaboration, and breakthroughs will be made in key technologies of ice and snow. Build an ice and snow equipment industrial park, introduce advanced ice and snow equipment projects, and improve the ice and snow equipment industrial chain in Jilin Province. Through "one-on-one" accurate counseling, we will cultivate "specialized and innovative" enterprises of ice and snow equipment. Plan to set up large-scale ice and snow equipment maintenance companies such as ropeways, cable cars and snow presses to provide market-oriented services for snow rinks and ice rinks. Focus on improving the security system of ice and snow economic factors. Relying on the universities in the province, we will build 10 first-class majors such as ice and snow sports and ice and snow economy, build 10 modern industrial colleges in the field of ice and snow, and build a perfect training system for ice and snow professionals. Increase financial support, set up an investment fund of 1 billion yuan to guide the ice and snow industry, and co-ordinate various financial funds to support the ice and snow economy of 500 million yuan. Establish a financial aid mechanism to guide social capital to invest in ice and snow projects. Innovate industrial support policies and strengthen the protection of factors such as land for ice and snow projects.

Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin attended and delivered a speech at the high-level meeting of "Friends of Neutrality" in Turkmenistan. On December 11, 2024, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin attended and delivered a speech at the high-level meeting of "Friends of Neutrality" in Turkmenistan. Liu Bin pointed out that China is willing to join hands with Turkey, international organizations represented by the United Nations and other countries in the world to promote the construction of a beautiful world with lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, tolerance, cleanliness and beauty. Representatives from Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Qatar and other countries and UN officials attended the meeting.China's first near-zero carbon port microgrid landed in Jiangsu, and the first near-zero carbon port microgrid, a major innovation pilot of China's new power system construction, was recently built in Lianyungang. The role of microgrid is not "micro", and smart microgrid is a small power distribution system composed of distributed power supply, power load, power distribution facilities, monitoring and protection devices. State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power teamed up with Lianyungang Port to build a "multi-energy complementary" smart microgrid in the port, helping to realize the zero carbon emission of freighters from berthing to loading and unloading. Yang Huadong, Engineering Department of Lianyungang Port Holding Group Co., Ltd. introduced that after all kinds of power generation and power consumption equipment are connected to the microgrid, the annual power generation of clean energy can exceed 6 million kWh. After flexible dispatching through the microgrid, the annual electricity consumption cost can be saved by over 3 million yuan, 21,000 tons of standard coal can be saved and 56,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced.LambdaTest received $38 million in financing, and Qualcomm Venture Capital participated in the investment. On December 12th, LambdaTest, a unified cloud testing platform, announced that the company had received $38 million in financing led by Avataar Ventures and invested by Qualcomm Venture Capital, with a total financing amount of $108 million. Founded in 2017, LambdaTest has raised nearly $70 million from investors in previous rounds of financing, including Premji Invest, Sequoia Capital India, Titanium Ventures, Leo Capital Holdings and Blume Ventures.

Network Information Office: The Network Security Standards Committee should speed up the development and release of standards such as "Identification Method of Synthetic Content Generated by Artificial Intelligence" and strengthen the research on relevant network security standards such as intelligent networked vehicles. The second "Standards Week" of the National Network Security Standardization Technical Committee in 2024 was held in Haikou City, Hainan Province from December 8 th to 11 th. Wang Jingtao, deputy director of the National Network Information Office, pointed out that standing at a new starting point and a new journey, the Network Security Standards Committee should do a solid job in network security standardization. First, it is necessary to build a national network security defense system supported by standards, and promote the release and implementation of standards such as the boundary determination method of key information infrastructure, the index system of security protection capability, the alarm information format of network security products, and the asset information format as soon as possible, and accelerate the formation of systematic defense capabilities. Second, it is necessary to use standards to help data security governance and supervision, speed up the development of standards such as data classification and classification protection requirements and compliance audit of personal information protection, and ensure the safe and orderly flow of data. Third, it is necessary to lead the safe and orderly development of new technologies and applications such as artificial intelligence with standards and norms, accelerate the development and release of standards such as "Identification Method of Synthetic Content Generated by Artificial Intelligence", and strengthen the research on relevant network security standards such as intelligent networked vehicles and autonomous driving, effectively escorting the safe development of emerging future industries. Fourth, we should use standards to boost the international influence of China's cybersecurity, continue to push China's cybersecurity standards "going global", do our best to run the SC27 international conference in the second half of 2025, and strive to achieve a double harvest of conference organization and conference technical achievements.On the 12th, South Korea's National Assembly voted to pass a special civil strife inspection law to investigate President Yin Xiyue's suspicion of civil strife. (Xinhua News Agency)ING is bearish on the prospect of commodities next year. It is expected that gold will outshine others. ING said that energy and commodities will be under pressure next year, while the prospect of gold is still bright. According to ING, due to geopolitical concerns, the price of gold is bound to continue this year's record high, and the average price of gold in 2025 will rise from about $2,713 per ounce at present to $2,760 per ounce. Most of the buying will come from central banks seeking diversification of foreign exchange reserves, and the intensification of trade and geopolitical frictions may increase the safe-haven appeal of gold.