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Scott Richardson, Chief Operating Officer of Celanese, will be promoted to CEO. Celanese, a chemical company, announced on December 10th local time that Scott Richardson, the current Chief Operating Officer of Celanese, has been appointed as CEO since January 1st, 2025, and will join the board of directors of the company. Richardson will succeed Lori Ryerkerk, who will resign as president, CEO and Celanese director at the end of the year. Edward Galante has been elected as an independent director of Celanese since 2013, and he will be the chairman of Celanese board, which will take effect after Ryerkerk leaves office.Wang Tao, UBS: It is expected that the Central Economic Work Conference will focus on the short-term policy package. Recently, the market highly expects the Central Economic Work Conference to guide the high-quality economic development of China next year. Wang Tao, head of Asian economic research at UBS and chief China economist, said: "I expect that the Central Economic Work Conference may focus on the short-term policy package in 2025 and 2026, but it will also emphasize accelerating some reform measures already outlined at the Third Plenary Session." Wang Tao believes that the next important reform measures may include providing better protection and access for the private economy, deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises to improve efficiency and governance, promoting household registration reform to improve the welfare of migrant workers, strengthening the social security network, and carrying out fiscal and taxation reforms to solve local fiscal revenue problems. "I think structural, deeper and faster reforms will be very important, not only to attract foreign investment, but also to boost domestic confidence." (China Daily)Chip heavyweights continued to fall in the afternoon, with Zhongwei diving down more than 5%, Haiguang Information down more than 4%, and SMIC and North Huachuang down more than 1%.

Barclays lowered its target share price of Nike from $81 to $79.There will be another high-speed railway station in Xi 'an. According to the news of WeChat official account released by Xi 'an, on December 7th, with the completion of the last concrete pouring, it marked the completion of the underground structure construction of Gaoling Station of Xi 'an-Yan 'an high-speed railway, which was built by Shaanxi Company of Xicheng Passenger Dedicated Railway and Beijing Engineering Bureau Group of China Railway, and entered the construction stage of the above-ground main structure in an all-round way.A laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples. It is reported that a laboratory in Australia lost hundreds of deadly virus samples, causing a "major loophole" in biosafety. On December 8th, Queensland Health Minister announced that there are currently 323 bottles of live virus missing. These include nearly 100 bottles of Hendra virus, two bottles of Hantavirus and 223 bottles of rabies virus-all of which are extremely deadly to human beings. The Queensland authorities insist that although these samples can be used as weapons, it is "not something that amateurs can do". The sample was lost in 2021, but investigators did not confirm the leak until August 2023. Queensland authorities waited for a year before being allowed to open the freezer where the samples were stored, and only this month were they able to confirm that the samples were lost. It is not clear where these samples may be or whether they have been destroyed. However, there is no evidence that the public is at risk of infection because of the disappearance of samples.

Hangxiao in Hebei successfully won the bid for the steel structure project of Machta project in Mongolia. Recently, hangxiao (Hebei) Construction Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hangxiao in Hebei") successfully won the bid for the steel structure project of Machta project in Mongolia. The project is located in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. It consists of a tower, a podium, a natural museum and a sports center with a total construction area of about 104,000 square meters. The tower and podium adopt reinforced concrete core tube-steel frame structure.Thai Prime Minister: Cabinet approves debt support measures.The Shanghai Composite Index opened at 3,430.08 points in the afternoon, up 0.22%. The Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index opened at 3,993.87 points in the afternoon, down 0.04%. Shenzhen Component Index opened at 10,860.99 points in the afternoon, up 0.45%. The GEM index opened at 2,266.24 points in the afternoon, up 0.10%. Small and medium-sized board opened at 11,727.56 points in the afternoon, up 0.65%.