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Japan Life Insurance announced that it would spend $8.2 billion to acquire the life insurance company Resolution Life. On December 11th, Japan Life Insurance Mutual announced that it would spend about $8.2 billion to acquire the remaining 77% shares of the life insurance company Resolution Life. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025. On the same day, Japan Life announced that it would acquire the remaining 20% shares of MLC Life Insurance from National Bank of Australia (NAB) and integrate MLC with Resolution Life.Hong Kong stocks fell, while the Hang Seng Index and Hang Seng Technology Index both fell.Beijing's subsidy policy for old vans has been extended to the end of the year. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment said yesterday that in order to meet the needs of car owners for trade-in, the city issued the Notice on Adjusting the Implementation Rules for Beijing to Further Promote the Scrapping and Updating of Old Wagons and Large and Medium-sized Buses with Emission Standards of Grade 4 and below, extending the application time of subsidies, expanding the scope of benefits of subsidies, and further stepping up efforts to promote the scrapping and updating of old trucks and large and medium-sized buses with emission standards of Grade 4 and below in the city. The applicable time of subsidy is extended from August 26th, 2024 to December 10th, 2024 to August 26th, 2024 to December 31st, 2024. In addition, this time, subsidies have been added to the owners of micro, light and medium-sized trucks that meet the four emission standards of scrapped countries from August 26 to December 31, 2024. Among them, the scrapped national four emission standards for micro and light trucks are subsidized by 15,000 yuan/vehicle; The subsidy for medium-sized trucks with four emission standards in scrapped countries is 25,000 yuan/vehicle.

State Railway Administration: From January to November, the national railway passenger volume reached a record high, and the State Railway Administration announced that from January to November, the national railway passenger volume reached a record high. From January to November, the number of railway passengers sent nationwide reached 4.015 billion, up 12.6% year-on-year, and the annual number of passengers sent exceeded 4 billion for the first time, reaching a record high. Passenger turnover reached 1,484.061 billion person-kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%. In the month of November, the number of railway passengers sent nationwide was 304 million, up 8.8% year-on-year; Passenger turnover reached 98.135 billion person-kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. The volume of freight delivery has increased steadily. From January to November, the national railway freight volume was 4.715 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. In November, the national railway freight volume was 455 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%; The freight turnover was 324.521 billion tons kilometers, up 2.4% year-on-year.Treasury futures closed in early trading, with the main contract of 2-year Treasury futures (TS) falling by 0.06%, 5-year Treasury futures (TF) falling by 0.13%, 10-year Treasury futures (T) falling by 0.15% and 30-year Treasury futures (TL) falling by 0.26%.Xinshida Inverter has successfully obtained the type approval certificate of China Classification Society. Recently, Xinshida Inverter AS710M has successfully obtained the type approval certificate issued by China Classification Society (CCS), which indicates that Xinshida Electric's products meet the strict standards of the international shipping industry, and also indicates that the company will further expand its market share in the field of ship and ocean engineering.

The three departments issued the tax policy on the transformation of operating cultural institutions into enterprises in the cultural system reform, and the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the Central Propaganda Department issued the Announcement on the Tax Policy on the Transformation of Operating Cultural Institutions into Enterprises in the Cultural System Reform, which mentioned that operating cultural institutions can enjoy the following transitional tax preferential policies: if operating cultural institutions are transformed into enterprises before December 31, 2022, they will be exempted from enterprise income tax from the date of registration of transformation to December 31, 2027. If a cultural unit funded by the financial department is transformed into an enterprise before December 31, 2022, its self-use property will be exempted from property tax from the date of registration of transformation to December 31, 2027.In 2024, the rating of brokerage investment banking business is nearing the end, and the results of 96 brokers will be released. The reporter was informed that the quality evaluation of brokerage investment banking business in 2024 is nearing the end, and the evaluation scores of investment banking business quality of 96 participating brokers in 2024 have been distributed to companies. After the brokers confirm, the association will start the formal scoring work. In September this year, the China Securities Association launched the quality evaluation of brokerage investment banking business in 2024, and initially determined the participating brokerage and investment banking projects. According to the preliminary statistics, about 68 brokers are expected to get extra points for supporting high-level science and technology in investment banking. (Cailian)The Sham Liberation Organization claimed to have taken control of the center of Deir ez-Zor, and the Syrian Human Rights Watch said on the 11th local time that the Syrian Democratic Army led by Syrian Kurdish forces withdrew from Deir ez-Zor and returned to seven villages east of the Euphrates River. Subsequently, the Syrian "Sham Liberation Organization" announced that its soldiers had taken control of Deir ez-Zor city center and western and eastern villages, and announced that Deir ez-Zor city and its military airport were "completely liberated". At present, the organization is continuing to advance to the surrounding rural areas and towns.