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Two-way opening-up continues to deepen, and foreign-funded institutions continue to be optimistic about China's capital market. Near the end of the year, many foreign-funded institutions have issued investment strategies for 2025. Foreign-funded institutions generally believe that a series of incremental policies since the end of September are gradually exerting their effects, providing strong support for China's stable economic growth and high-quality development. At the same time, the interconnection of financial markets continues to deepen, and the system of qualified foreign investors continues to be optimized, which also makes foreign investors' interest in investing in China continue to rise. Many foreign-funded institutions such as Goldman Sachs, UBS and Morgan Asset Management continue to be optimistic about the market outlook of China's capital market. Xing Ziqiang, chief economist of Morgan Stanley in China, said that the regulatory authorities are increasingly friendly to foreign investment, and the attention of overseas long-term capital and foreign investors to China is also developing in a positive direction. With the coordinated efforts of reform, it is believed that China's economy and market confidence will continue to stabilize and rebound. (Securities Times)China's economic restructuring and upgrading loan interest rates have remained at a historically low level, the financial sector has continued to exert its efforts to support the real economy, and credit resources have more flowed to key areas and weak links of the national economy. At the end of November, medium and long-term loans for manufacturing industry, loans for "specialized and innovative" enterprises, and small and micro loans for general benefit increased by 12.8%, 13.2% and 14.3% respectively, which were higher than the growth rates of various loans in the same period. China's economic structure has been transformed and upgraded, and the credit structure has been continuously optimized. (CCTV News)Shanghai will build a space-time digital twin system. Chen Jining, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, attended the opening day of "Shanghai Quantum City Space-time Innovation Base" in Fuxing Island, Yangpu District yesterday morning to unveil the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space-time Innovation of Quantum City. According to the construction plan, relevant parties in Shanghai will innovatively integrate and apply all kinds of new digital technologies to build a spatio-temporal digital twin system with virtual reality, online and offline linkage, and all things interconnected. By 2027, the city's spatio-temporal intelligent governance capacity will be comprehensively improved, and thousands of industries will be supported, forming a number of industrial clusters in the spatio-temporal field of artificial intelligence. (Liberation Daily)

Wafer factory "bargains for orders"? Insiders: It's not so exaggerated that there is no need for drastic price reduction at present. Recently, some industry media reported that the Chinese mainland wafer foundry has overflowed its capacity and is striving for more IC design factory orders to return at a low price discount. A manager of Chinese mainland Head Wafer Factory told reporters that the actual situation was "not as serious as reported by the media, and not so exaggerated". The source said that since the fourth quarter of this year, the quotation of its wafer factory has been "stable at present". In the fourth quarter, product orders from display drivers, power management and other categories were "not bad", and the market demand was similar to that previously publicly disclosed. The independent control of the mainland market is still the main theme. It is understood that the fourth quarter is usually the "off-season" of the wafer foundry industry, and downstream customers will review the sales plan at the beginning of the year, and they are not willing to stock up and receive goods. A person from a consumer chip company in Chinese mainland said, "Fab factories generally adjust prices according to market supply and demand." Yang Shengxin, a senior analyst of Sigmaintell's semiconductor business unit, said in an interview that according to the observation of Sigma Intell, Chinese mainland's wafer factory decreased by about 5% in the fourth quarter of 2024, and concentrated on 12-inch products; The price of China Taiwan Province Wafer Factory has not changed significantly. (science and technology innovation board Daily)In November, the growth rate of new loans was 580 billion yuan, and the growth rate of housing loans rebounded. According to the November credit data released by the People's Bank of China yesterday, the financing demand of the real economy continued to show a marginal improvement trend under the continuous effect of a package of incremental policies. In the month, RMB loans increased by 580 billion yuan, and personal mortgages stabilized and rebounded. In the month, medium and long-term loans of households increased by 300 billion yuan, a significant increase from the previous month. The change of residents' medium and long-term loans is closely related to residents' willingness to buy houses. In November, the medium and long-term loans of residents improved significantly compared with October, mainly because personal loans stabilized and rebounded, which confirmed each other with the marginal improvement of real estate market transactions in that month. In November, the year-on-year growth rate of commercial housing transaction area in 30 large and medium-sized cities turned from negative to positive, and the transaction has remained relatively active since December. The reporter learned from the central bank that with the gradual effectiveness of the package of incremental policies to stabilize the real estate market, the phenomenon of early repayment of personal mortgages has been significantly reduced, and the growth rate of housing loans has recently picked up. In October this year, the amount of personal mortgage loans exceeded 400 billion yuan, and the amount of early repayment decreased. The proportion of early repayment in the balance of personal housing loans was significantly lower than that before the introduction of a package of incremental policies.The head of the South Korean Police Department was formally detained. According to South Korean media reports, Zhao Zhihao, the head of the South Korean Police Department, and Kim Fung-sik, the head of the Seoul Police Department, were formally detained on the evening of December 13th. The Central District Court of Seoul said that Zhao Zhihao and Jin Fengzhi had the possibility of destroying evidence, so they issued detention orders. (CCTV International News)

Wafer factory "bargains for orders"? Insiders: It's not so exaggerated that there is no need for drastic price reduction at present. Recently, some industry media reported that the Chinese mainland wafer foundry has overflowed its capacity and is striving for more IC design factory orders to return at a low price discount. A manager of Chinese mainland Head Wafer Factory told reporters that the actual situation was "not as serious as reported by the media, and not so exaggerated". The source said that since the fourth quarter of this year, the quotation of its wafer factory has been "stable at present". In the fourth quarter, product orders from display drivers, power management and other categories were "not bad", and the market demand was similar to that previously publicly disclosed. The independent control of the mainland market is still the main theme. It is understood that the fourth quarter is usually the "off-season" of the wafer foundry industry, and downstream customers will review the sales plan at the beginning of the year, and they are not willing to stock up and receive goods. A person from a consumer chip company in Chinese mainland said, "Fab factories generally adjust prices according to market supply and demand." Yang Shengxin, a senior analyst of Sigmaintell's semiconductor business unit, said in an interview that according to the observation of Sigma Intell, Chinese mainland's wafer factory decreased by about 5% in the fourth quarter of 2024, and concentrated on 12-inch products; The price of China Taiwan Province Wafer Factory has not changed significantly. (science and technology innovation board Daily)In the first two weeks of December, Wuhan sold a total of 22 residential plots, with a total investment of more than 11 billion yuan. In the first two weeks of December, Wuhan has carried out three batches of residential plots, with a total investment of more than 11 billion yuan. On December 13th, Wuhan successfully sold six residential plots, including one in Hanyang District, East Lake High-tech Zone, Hongshan District and huangpi district, and two in Qingshan District. The total land area of 6 plots is 214,964 square meters, the total planned construction area is 726,285.4 square meters, and the total starting price is 5.457 billion yuan. In the end, all six plots were sold at the reserve price, with a total income of 5.457 billion yuan, including Yangchun Lake in Hongshan District, OCT, and Hanyang District, Wuhan Huijing Real Estate, a private enterprise.Us treasury secretary yellen: the United States and its allies may lower the price ceiling imposed on Russian oil export prices.