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Shenzhen Component Index opened at 10942.05 points in the afternoon, up 0.86%. The GEM index opened at 2,297.69 points in the afternoon, up 1.60%. The small and medium-sized board opened at 11,810.25 points in the afternoon, an increase of 0.61%; The Shanghai Composite Index opened at 3,455.06 points in the afternoon, up 0.66%. The Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index opened at 4023.60 points in the afternoon, up 0.87%.Samsung Electronics will hold its 2025 strategy meeting next week. Yonhap News Agency quoted unnamed industry sources as saying that Samsung Electronics will hold its 2025 global strategy meeting next week. The electronic products business meeting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the semiconductor department meeting will be held on Thursday. The main agenda items include the upcoming Galaxy S25 smartphone. Lee Jae-yong, the company's executive chairman, is not expected to attend these meetings.Renhe Pharmaceutical invested in Jiangxi to establish a health industry company. According to the enterprise search APP, Jiangxi Renhe Jiuniuai Health Industry Co., Ltd. was recently established, with Xin Li as the legal representative and a registered capital of 1 million yuan. Its business scope includes: food Internet sales, health food production, health care services (non-medical), health consulting services, sales of first-class medical devices, sales of agricultural and sideline products, etc. Enterprise survey shows that the company is jointly held by Renhe Pharmaceutical and Xin Li.

The tenth batch of centralized procurement of drugs organized by the state will be opened in Shanghai today (12th), and the bid will be selected. It is understood that this collection involves a total of 62 drugs and 263 product specifications, which is the highest in all previous collections. Covers a variety of therapeutic fields such as hypertension, diabetes, tumor, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, infection, mental illness, and electrolyte supplementation. (CCTV Finance)SAIC: Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal has been put into production and operation. According to the official WeChat official account news of SAIC, today, Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal jointly built by SAIC, Shanghai Port Group and Jiangsu Port Group has been put into production and operation, with an annual throughput of 1.3 million vehicles.Samsung has lowered its mobile phone production target to 229 million units next year. Samsung Electronics has set a mobile phone production target for 2025, and plans to produce about 229 million smartphones. This goal includes 179.4 million units produced by ourselves and 49.9 million units produced by joint design and manufacturing (JDM). Compared with the initial plan of 237 million units in October this year, this target has been lowered by 7-8 million units, only slightly higher than the shipment forecast for the whole year of 2024.

Thailand's consumer confidence index rose to 56.9 in November, boosted by stimulus measures, and Thailand's consumer confidence index rose from 56.0 to 56.9 in November.Citigroup slightly lowered South Korea's GDP growth forecast to 1.5% next year. It is expected that the Bank of Korea will cut interest rates next month. Citigroup released a report saying that considering the worse economic sentiment in South Korea this month, it slightly lowered its GDP forecast for this year and next year by 0.1 percentage point to 2.1% and 1.5% respectively. The bank slightly lowered Korea's GDP growth forecast for the last quarter of this year by 0.1 percentage point to rise by 0.3% quarterly, and raised its GDP growth forecast for the first quarter of next year by 0.1 percentage point to rise by 0.6% quarterly. Looking forward to the first quarter of next year, the bank expects South Korea to adopt a combination of expansionary policies, including the Bank of Korea's expected interest rate cut to 2.75% in mid-January, and the government's expected additional budget of 30 trillion won (equivalent to about 1.1% of GDP next year). It is expected that the Bank of Korea will cut interest rates by 25BP each in January, April, July and October next year, and the final interest rate is expected to be 2%.The word "Jin" was elected as the Japanese Chinese character of the year in 2024. According to NHK, on the afternoon of December 12, local time, Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, Japan announced the word "Jin" as the Japanese Chinese character of the year in 2024. According to the report, this year's word "gold" has two meanings. One is that athletes such as Japanese Olympic athletes have performed well and issued a shining "golden light"; The second is the political black gold problem in Japanese politics and frequent robberies caused by underground part-time jobs, because the pronunciation of "gold" in Japanese, like the word "shadow", also implies the meaning of "shadow". (China News Network)