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The scale of China's AI core industry is nearly 600 billion yuan. Generative artificial intelligence enterprises set off a price war. According to the Report on the Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications in 2024, as of June, the number of users of China's generative artificial intelligence products has reached 230 million. At present, the number of enterprises has exceeded 4,500, and the scale of core industries is close to 600 billion yuan. According to industry insiders, compared with the input cost of several billion yuan, the large model enterprises are not commercialized at present, and the realization is slow. A large number of generative artificial intelligence enterprises in the market, in order to compete for users, set off a round of computing power price war in the industry, and the price of large model computing power once dropped by as much as 90%. (CCTV Finance)Boeing also exposed nearly 1,000 layoffs. According to American media reports, American aircraft manufacturer Boeing will lay off employees again, involving nearly 1,000 people in Washington State and California. This batch of layoffs is part of Boeing's plan to lay off 17,000 people worldwide announced in October. The Associated Press reported on the 9th that Boeing's latest layoffs involved nearly 400 people in Washington State and more than 500 people in California. The posts to be abolished include engineers, personnel and analysts, affecting Boeing's civil, defense and global service departments. In a document submitted to the government in mid-November, Boeing said that it plans to lay off about 2,500 people, and with the latest report of nearly 1,000 people, Boeing has recently laid off about 3,500 people. Kelly Otterberg, CEO of Boeing, said that layoffs are not due to strikes, but to redundancy. The strike of Boeing's 33,000 people's congress lasted for nearly two months, which caused the production of Boeing's various passenger planes to encounter obstacles. The workers who took part in the strike voted on November 4 to accept the terms of the new labor agreement and end the strike. According to an insider's disclosure on the 9th, Boeing resumed production of the 737 MAX passenger plane on the 6th. Reuters commented that it is very important for Boeing to restart the production of this aircraft. Boeing now holds about 4,200 orders for 737 MAX. (Xinhua News Agency)French military spokesman: It will still take several weeks to finalize the timetable for France's further withdrawal from Chad.

General Administration of Customs: In the first 11 months, the import and export of private enterprises was 21.99 trillion yuan, accounting for 55.3% of China's total foreign trade. According to the data of the General Administration of Customs, in the first 11 months, the import and export of private enterprises was 21.99 trillion yuan, up 8.7%, accounting for 55.3% of China's total foreign trade, up 2 percentage points over the same period last year. Among them, the export was 14.86 trillion yuan, up 9.2%, accounting for 64.5% of China's total export value; Imports amounted to 7.13 trillion yuan, up 7.9%, accounting for 42.6% of China's total import value. In the same period, the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises reached 11.67 trillion yuan, up by 1.1%, accounting for 29.3% of China's total foreign trade. Among them, exports were 6.36 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.1%; Imports reached 5.31 trillion yuan, down 0.1%. The import and export of state-owned enterprises was 6.04 trillion yuan, down 0.7%, accounting for 15.2% of China's total foreign trade. Among them, the export was 1.79 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.9%; Imports were 4.25 trillion yuan, down 2.5%. (General Administration of Customs)Two domestic bonds of Sunac have passed the restructuring vote, and two bonds of Sunac, H6 Rongdi 01 and H0 Sunac 03, have taken the lead in the restructuring vote. The other eight bonds still have two weeks to vote, and the voting results of the overall restructuring of ten bonds will finally be ushered in on December 23rd. Previously, on November 27th, Sunac announced a debt restructuring plan for domestic debt with a total amount of about 15.4 billion, which was divided into four ways: cash tender offer, debt-for-equity swap, debt-for-equity swap and debt retention extension. Compared with other schemes such as bankruptcy reorganization, the arrangement of compulsory debt reduction is more friendly to creditors. An unnamed creditor said that Sunac can truly protect the long-term interests of all creditors and investors only if it resumes healthy operation as soon as possible. (Seeing Real Estate)AuAg Funds: It is estimated that the target price of gold in 2025 is 3,000-3,300 US dollars per ounce. Eric Strand, CEO of AuAg Funds, said in an interview with the media on Tuesday that the target price of gold in 2025 is expected to be 3,000-3,300 US dollars per ounce. Eric Strand said that in 2024, the price of gold exceeded market expectations, hitting $2,790 per ounce in October, although the market has since fallen back. He stressed that the central bank's interest rate cuts and continued inflation will push the price of gold to 3,000-3,300 US dollars per ounce in 2025. The change of gold/silver ratio shows that the price of silver still has the potential to continue to rise. He also said that regional tensions, persistent inflation and consumption growth of the middle class in emerging markets will continue to push gold and silver prices higher.

Wang Zhonglin, Governor of Hubei Province had a discussion with He Xiaopeng, Chairman of Xpeng Motors. On the morning of December 9, Wang Zhonglin, Deputy Secretary of Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Governor, had a discussion with He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of Xpeng Motors. Wang Zhonglin expressed the hope that Xpeng Motors will continue to deepen its cooperation with Hubei, further increase its investment layout in Hubei, expand cooperation space in new energy and intelligent networked vehicles, low-altitude economy, humanoid robots and other fields, promote more new technologies and new products to land in Hubei, and help Hubei forge ahead in promoting scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and accelerate the cultivation and expansion of new quality productivity. He Xiaopeng said that Xpeng Motors will continue to regard Hubei as the key area of business layout, further increase its investment in Hubei, actively promote the transformation and upgrading of Hubei's automobile industry and the development and growth of emerging industries, and make new and greater contributions to accelerating the establishment of Hubei as an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of central China.President Lukashenko of Belarus: There are about 30 locations in Belarus where Oreshnik missiles can be deployed.On December 17th, the M&A Committee of Shanghai Stock Exchange deliberated the issue of purchasing assets by issuing shares of Guolian Securities, and the M&A Committee of Shanghai Stock Exchange is scheduled to hold the 6th review meeting of the M&A Committee in 2024 on December 17th, 2024 to consider the issue of Guolian Securities Co., Ltd. (issuing shares to purchase assets).