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The Global Ecosystem and Transformation Center jointly established by the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank, and the China-World Bank Group Global Ecosystem and Transformation Center jointly established by the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank, with the theme of ecological protection, conforms to the new needs of the times to meet global challenges and is a new achievement of cooperation between China and the World Bank in the new era. At the launching ceremony, Lan Foan, Minister of Finance, said that China adhered to the concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and further promoted the three major defense wars of blue sky, clear water and pure land. Over the past decade, the central government has invested nearly 6 trillion yuan to fully guarantee the construction of beautiful China. The "gold content" of China's ecological environment has improved significantly, and the "green content" of its development has increased significantly. (CCTV News)Reuters survey: the short bet of won is at the highest level since October 20, 2022; Indian Rupee's short bet reached the highest level since November 17, 2022; Investors reduced their short bets on Philippine peso, Indonesian rupiah, Thai baht and Singapore dollar.US media: "Ukraine provides drones to Syrian opposition forces." According to Reuters's December 11th quote from Washington post, a few weeks before Syrian opposition forces launched an offensive and overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian militants obtained about 150 drones and other secret support from Ukrainian intelligence personnel. Washington post quoted unnamed sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities as saying that four to five weeks ago, Ukrainian intelligence agencies sent about 20 drone operators and about 150 drones to help the "Syrian Sham Liberation Army". According to the report, the Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that the Syrian opposition armed forces obtained drones from Ukraine and received operational training. The Russian Foreign Ministry did not provide evidence. At that time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that it "categorically" denied this statement. (Reference message)

Mackler M, Governor of the Bank of Canada: (Regarding the potential tariff policy) We can't make policies based on what may happen. If the (US) tariffs are implemented as promised, it will cause serious damage to the Canadian economy.Shanghai Science and Technology Commission: Increase financial support for projects in the fields of scientific instruments, scientific research reagents and technical standards in the Action Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation, and Shanghai Science and Technology Commission issued the Action Plan for Promoting the Innovative Development of Scientific Instruments and Scientific Research Reagents in Shanghai (2025-2027). The plan points out that financial input should be increased. We will increase support for projects in the fields of scientific instruments, scientific research reagents and technical standards in the Action Plan for Science and Technology Innovation, support technology research and development, product development and standard development, select and fund high-end scientific instruments and scientific research reagent products, and support the construction of technical test and verification platforms, application scenarios and user experience centers. 16. Strengthen financial support. Establish and improve the industrial venture capital mechanism, encourage and guide market capital to participate in industrial development. Give play to the role of the parent fund of the three leading industries and the future industrial fund, encourage social capital investment, support debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, and promote enterprises to become bigger and stronger.Google Cloud officially opened the sixth generation of TPU Trillium to customers, and Google Cloud released a blog post on December 11th announcing the official opening of the sixth generation of TPU Trillium to customers, hoping to better promote the development of AI model with its large computing power, efficient performance and sustainable characteristics. It is reported that Trillium TPU is a key component of Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer, and it is a breakthrough supercomputer architecture, which adopts an integrated system composed of performance-optimized hardware, open software, leading machine learning framework and flexible consumption model.

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine: We are ready to discuss the deployment of foreign troops in our own territory. On December 12, local time, the reporter of the General Desk learned that Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Stefani Hina said that Ukraine is ready to discuss the deployment of foreign troops in its own territory. It is reported that French President Macron and Polish Prime Minister Tusk plan to exchange views on the deployment of about 40,000 peacekeepers in Uzbekistan on the 12th. (CCTV News)Lu Dongsheng was appointed Deputy Secretary and General Manager of the Party Committee of Shanghai Futures Exchange. The Party Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission decided that Comrade Lu Dongsheng was appointed Deputy Secretary and General Manager of the Party Committee of Shanghai Futures Exchange. Comrade Wang Fenghai no longer serves as deputy secretary and general manager of the Party Committee of Shanghai Futures Exchange. (website of last issue)Anhui's first high-growth industrial bond was successfully issued in Shanghai. Recently, Anhui Wantong Expressway Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Wantong Expressway") completed the issuance of Anhui's first high-growth industrial bond in Shanghai Stock Exchange. On October 30th this year, Wan Tong Expressway was approved by China Securities Regulatory Commission to publicly issue corporate bonds with a registered scale of no more than 5 billion yuan to professional investors.