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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)Shinhiro Niai, a member of Suntory's founder family, will be the president, and Sina Gangshi will be the chairman. On December 12, it was announced that Suntory Holdings had finalized the personnel transfer, and Shinhiro Niai, a vice president from the founder family, will be promoted to the president, and the current president Sina Gangshi will be the chairman. It is expected that Nobuhiro Niai will officially take office after the shareholders' meeting in March next year. This is Suntory's re-election as president by members of the founder's family after about 10 years.Gazprom: It will continue to deliver natural gas to Europe through Ukraine, with a delivery volume of 42.4 million cubic meters on Thursday.

CEO of Bank of America: The sales and trading business is expected to reach a new high in the fourth quarter, and the investment banking business income will jump. On December 11th, the CEO of Bank of America Brian moynihan said that with the "continuous growth" of transactions, the bank's investment banking business income in the fourth quarter may exceed US$ 1.4 billion, with a year-on-year increase of at least 25%. Moynihan also said that the sales and trading business in the fourth quarter should record a year-on-year growth again, achieving a medium-to-high single-digit growth. The bank also expects that the net interest income will continue to grow, which is expected to achieve the guiding target of $14.3 billion given earlier this year.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)Huaxin Securities: China Unicom's operating income grew steadily and maintained its "buy" rating. Huaxin Securities Research Report pointed out that since the beginning of this year, China Unicom (600050.SH) has seen steady growth in operating income, rapid improvement in profitability, steady expansion of user scale and continuous consolidation of network foundation, laying a more solid foundation for high-quality development of enterprises. Communication and digital intelligence services are driven by two wheels, injecting vitality into the company's performance. Looking forward to the whole year, the company will adhere to the general tone of steady progress, promote the network to be new, technology to be new and service to be new, strive to achieve the performance goal of steady growth of operating income and double-digit growth of profits throughout the year, take greater steps in high-quality development, and accelerate the construction of a world-class science and technology service enterprise with global competitiveness. With the gradual expansion of user scale and the drive of digital transformation, the company will benefit from the continuous improvement of revenue and profit and maintain the "buy" investment rating.

Jilin: Set up an investment fund of 1 billion yuan to guide the ice and snow industry. According to the news of "Jilin Publishing" WeChat WeChat official account on December 12, recently, the General Office of Jilin Provincial Party Committee and the General Office of the provincial government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Ice and Snow Economy in Jilin Province". Sun Guangzhi, director of Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, said that the "Implementation Opinions" focused on the ice and snow equipment industry. Industry-University-Research will be promoted to tackle key problems through collaboration, and breakthroughs will be made in key technologies of ice and snow. Build an ice and snow equipment industrial park, introduce advanced ice and snow equipment projects, and improve the ice and snow equipment industrial chain in Jilin Province. Through "one-on-one" accurate counseling, we will cultivate "specialized and innovative" enterprises of ice and snow equipment. Plan to set up large-scale ice and snow equipment maintenance companies such as ropeways, cable cars and snow presses to provide market-oriented services for snow rinks and ice rinks. Focus on improving the security system of ice and snow economic factors. Relying on the universities in the province, we will build 10 first-class majors such as ice and snow sports and ice and snow economy, build 10 modern industrial colleges in the field of ice and snow, and build a perfect training system for ice and snow professionals. Increase financial support, set up an investment fund of 1 billion yuan to guide the ice and snow industry, and co-ordinate various financial funds to support the ice and snow economy of 500 million yuan. Establish a financial aid mechanism to guide social capital to invest in ice and snow projects. Innovate industrial support policies and strengthen the protection of factors such as land for ice and snow projects.Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.Zhang Feng, president of Duodianzhi: The retail digital intelligence infrastructure company has developed a number of AI products. On December 12, at the annual partner conference of Duodianzhi in 2024, Zhang Feng, president of Duodianzhi, said that Duodianzhi would always insist on using technology to promote retail development and insist on retail digital intelligence infrastructure. At present, AI technology is booming, and AI will also accelerate the iterative speed of multi-point intelligent systems. In the past year, Duodian has developed a variety of AI products, such as clearing, inspection, etc., and actively practiced and quickly landed, all of which are preparing for the full arrival of the AI ​ ​ era.