Today's data selection: International diamond prices hit a new low in the past five years; 1.4 billion people in existing housing may not be able to live in them all

He Keng said that 1.4 billion people may not be able to live in all the existing housing.

On September 23, He Keng, deputy director of the Financial and Economic Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress and former deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said at the 2023 China Real Economy Development Conference, “There is now an oversupply of real estate, and various experts have estimated how many vacant houses there are. The figures are very different, and 1.4 billion people may not be able to live in them. It is unwise to vigorously develop real estate with so many vacant houses, so under this situation, real estate companies must transform and take the initiative early.”

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, Nansha, Guangzhou, known by the industry as the "Hometown of Chinese Blue Crabs", is ushering in the golden season of the year, and the noble "butter crab" among blue crabs is on the market! It is said that it takes one thousand blue crabs to produce one butter crab, which is extremely rare and of course not cheap.

Butter crab farmer Zheng Keke said that the market price of a top-quality butter crab of about half a catty on the market is about 2,000 yuan.

Why are butter crabs so expensive? The origin of butter crab must be mentioned here. It is actually a mutated blue crab. It is said that only one butter crab can come out of a thousand blue crabs, and its mutation is currently beyond human control.

According to public information, butter crabs grow in areas at the junction of salty and freshwater waters, and their origins are limited. They are mostly found in Lau Fau Shan and the Pearl River Basin in Hong Kong, especially in Taiping, Humen, Dongguan City, and Deep Bay, Shenzhen City. Usually, only a little more than two months from the end of May to mid-August on the lunar calendar is the "season", which is also the best time to eat butter crab.

According to local experts, during the hot summer spawning season, mature crabs will live on the banks of the shallow river during spawning. When the tide goes out, the strong sunlight raises the water temperature on the shoal, which stimulates the crab. The crab paste in the crab's body decomposes into golden oil, which then penetrates into every part of the body. The whole crab is filled with butter, and the crab body appears orange. Because of its yellow color, it is called butter crab.

Generally speaking, the best time to eat butter crab is around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. At this time, the butter crab meat is the most tender, the crab roe is the richest, and the sweetest.

With a huge loss of 2 billion, the former "shoe king" Guireniao announced that he will gradually withdraw from the sports shoes and clothing business!

On the evening of September 22, the former "shoe king" Guirenniao announced a big move! ST Guiren announced that the company's board of directors plans to optimize and adjust the company's business operations, take the grain business as the company's main future business development direction, prioritize and focus on making the grain business bigger and stronger, and gradually withdraw from the sports shoes and apparel business.

In recent years, the competition in the sports footwear and clothing industry has become increasingly fierce, and ST Guiren's sports footwear and clothing business revenue has decreased and continued to suffer losses. In the first half of the year, the company's net profit and loss scale further expanded. ST Guiren stated that the "Guirenniao" brand is facing significant development pressure.

As of the close of trading on September 22, ST Guiren's stock price was quoted at 1.84 yuan per share, with a total market value of 2.9 billion yuan. It is worth noting that due to the increasingly fierce competition in the clothing market, Guirenniao has indeed experienced a decline in revenue and continued losses as it said in recent years, and its performance has been under severe pressure.

From 2018 to 2022, ST Guiren's annual net profit attributable to the parent company suffered four losses, with a cumulative loss exceeding 2 billion yuan. Among them, the net losses from 2018 to 2020 were 686 million yuan, 1.096 billion yuan, and 382 million yuan respectively, and the net loss in 2022 was 9.4137 million yuan. In 2021, due to the completion of bankruptcy restructuring, the company confirmed a debt restructuring income of 1.222 billion yuan, and achieved a net profit turnaround for the year.

The hottest ever! Outbound travel surged 20 times during the National Day Golden Week!

The last holiday of the year will officially start next Friday, and the eight-day long holiday has once again ignited the travel craze. According to the order status previously disclosed by multiple OTA platforms, orders for travel, hotels, tourism services, etc. have doubled. Ctrip platform data shows that domestic travel orders increased by 4 times year-on-year, and outbound travel orders increased by as much as 20 times. Orders for transportation products departing from September 29 to October 6 increased by 416% compared with last week. The industry predicts that the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday will be the most popular National Day Golden Week in history.

Statistics from the China Railway Group show that from September 13th to 18th, a total of 146 million train tickets were sold by railways across the country. China Railway Group predicts that the transportation period during the National Day Golden Week will exceed the previous Golden Weeks. The national railways are expected to carry 190 million passengers, with an average of 158 million passengers per day, a comparable increase of 14.73% compared with the same period in 2019. Passenger flow will always remain high.

According to FightAI data, the number of searches related to air tickets on the first day of the holiday on September 29 reached 410,000, a year-on-year increase of 345.9% in 2019. The "long" holiday stimulates "long-distance" travel. Jin Junhao, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said that more than 21 million passengers are expected to travel by air during the holiday, with 137,000 guaranteed flights, with an average of more than 17,000 flights per day.

Plunge! Buy soap and get diamonds? International diamond prices hit a new low in the past five years

Since the beginning of this year, topics related to the drop in diamond prices have frequently appeared on social media hot search lists. The latest data shows that the Diamond Price Index of the International Diamond Exchange has now fallen to around 110, a new low in the past five years and a drop of about 30% from the peak in early 2022.

The Shanghai Diamond Price Index compiled by the Shanghai Diamond Exchange shows that starting from June 2022, the price trend of China's diamond consumer market has been fluctuating and declining. The index is priced in RMB, with July 1, 2021 as the base point of 100 points. Currently, except for carat varieties above 1.5 carats, other diamond price indexes have all fallen below the base point.

Fleishteg, director of the Belgian Federation of Diamond Exchanges, said, “Two years ago, man-made diamonds were 40% cheaper than natural diamonds, then 60% cheaper, and this year they are 70%, 80%, or even 99% cheaper. Maybe. In the future, when you buy soap in the supermarket, you will also be given a diamond.”