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Cross-border payment concept stocks surged before noon, while Gao Weida and Zhaori Technology rose by 20cm, while huijin technology and Xiongdi Technology rose by more than 10%.China Resources Property Company responded to the explosion of high-rise residential buildings in Shenzhen Bay Yuefu. On December 12, China Resources Property Company responded to the explosion of high-rise residential buildings in Shenzhen Bay Yuefu: Next, the property company will fully cooperate with relevant government departments to do the aftermath, help and care for residents as much as possible, and tide over the difficulties with them.With a case value of 6.891 billion yuan, the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Huangpu Customs launched a special campaign to crack down on smuggling and fraudulent tax refund, which was announced by the Customs. Recently, the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Huangpu Customs, together with the Third Branch of the Securities Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the Economic Investigation Corps of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department and the Yueyang Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province, launched a special campaign to crack down on smuggling and fraudulent tax refund, and simultaneously carried out arrests and investigations in Dongguan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Yueyang and Jinjiang. After preliminary investigation, criminal gangs were suspected of smuggling imported LCD screens and integrated circuits with a case value of 756 million yuan, falsely issuing special invoices for value-added tax and defrauding export tax rebate of 6.135 billion yuan, with a total case value of 6.891 billion yuan.

Zhaoyi Innovation established a management consulting company in Zhuhai. According to the enterprise search APP, Zhuhai Lingchuang Management Consulting Co., Ltd. was recently established with a registered capital of 5 million yuan, and its business scope includes: enterprise management consulting. Enterprise survey shows that the company is wholly owned by Zhaoyi Innovation.Japan's housing prices exceed the annual income by 10 times and Tokyo's by 18 times. According to the Nikkei News, in Japan, the price of new residential buildings has risen faster than the increase of wages, making it increasingly difficult for the actual demand class to afford. As an investment target, the popularity is deeply rooted, and developers also supply a large number of houses with over 100 million yen. Especially in Tokyo, the average price is 18 times of the annual income, and it is becoming a market that ignores the actual demand level. According to the prefectures and counties in Japan, the highest ratio of house price to income is 17.78 times that of Tokyo. The average annual income is 5.92 million yen, and the price of residential buildings reaches 105.26 million yen.Institution: The battery price stabilized in November, and it is expected to rise slightly in 2025. On December 12, according to the latest research of TrendForce Jibang Consulting, in November 2024, the sales of electric vehicles in China continued to increase, which boosted the demand for power batteries, and the price of Ferrous lithium phosphate batteries remained stable, while the ternary batteries declined slightly. The demand for batteries in the energy storage market maintained the peak season characteristics, and with the price advantage of large-capacity batteries, the proportion of shipments increased. However, the average price of energy storage batteries continued to decline in November due to the slowdown in demand for orders at the end of the year. The agency expects that the price of some lithium battery materials may rise slightly in the peak season of 2025, which is expected to repair the serious losses of the company in the early stage. However, due to the fact that the relationship between supply and demand has not changed from surplus to shortage, the expected increase in material prices is limited, and battery manufacturers actively control costs, the battery price trend will be stable next year.

The employees of Extreme Vietnam discussed with CEO Xia Yiping that on the morning of December 12, CEO Xia Yiping of Extreme Vietnam was surrounded by many employees in the office of the company headquarters, and some internal employees broadcast the scene live online. The reporter learned that the employees "besieged" Xia Yiping, and there were four main demands, namely, the employees' social security, medical insurance and provident fund in October and November this year, the salary, five insurances and one gold in December this year, and the "N+1" compensation for employees on the day of resignation, and the completion of the employee settlement process. At the scene, some employees asked the company to settle their wages today because they were worried about Xia Yiping's "running away", otherwise they needed to detain Xia Yiping's ID card and passport. The reporter was informed that last night, many departments in Vietnam announced the dissolution on the spot, such as the delivery department; Some domestic stores have suspended business when they heard the news. At the same time, Xia Yiping also mentioned in his internal staff speech yesterday that employees' social security payment will be suspended in November and their wages will be delayed in December. For employees who voluntarily leave their jobs, the compensation standard given by Ji Yue is "N+1", but no specific compensation schedule is given. (Yicai)Shanghai Nickel's main contract has expanded, and now it has risen by more than 3% to 129,170 yuan/ton.Foreign media survey: the Korean economy is expected to grow by 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with the previous estimate of 1.8%; In the first quarter of 2025, GDP is expected to increase by 1% year-on-year, compared with the previous estimate of 1.1%.