Today's data selection: my country's birth population dropped by more than one million last year; U.S. CPI rose 3.7% year-on-year in September

The transformation of urban villages in megacities will be implemented in three categories:

According to @CCTVFinance, on the 12th, reporters learned from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: Mega cities are actively and steadily promoting the transformation of urban villages, and the implementation is divided into three categories. It is understood that the transformation of urban villages involves the implementation of demolition and construction of new buildings that meet the conditions; the second type is the implementation of regular renovation and improvement; the third type is in between, implementing a combination of demolition and renovation. In the transformation of urban villages in megacities, those that are demolished and newly built will be planned, constructed and managed in accordance with urban standards; those that are renovated and upgraded will be renovated, upgraded and managed in accordance with civilized city standards.

Last year, the number of births in my country decreased by more than one million compared with the previous year.

On October 12, the National Health Commission released the "Statistical Bulletin on my country's Health Care Development in 2022".

The "Communique" shows that in recent years, our country's government investment in the medical and health field has continued to increase, medical and health resources have been improved and expanded, the health service system has been continuously improved, and the construction of a healthy China has been steadily advancing.

"Daily Economic News" reporters noted that according to data released by the "Gazette", at the end of 2022, the total number of health personnel nationwide was 14.411 million, an increase of 425,000 over the previous year.

It is worth noting that according to the "Communique", the number of births in our country in 2022 will be 9.56 million, which means that compared with 10.62 million in 2021, the number of births will decrease by more than one million.

"Daily Economic News" reporters noticed that the 2021 "Gazette" showed that there were 10.62 million births that year, with second children accounting for 41.4%, three children and above accounting for 14.5%, and the sex ratio at birth was 110.9.

Compared with 2021, the proportion of second children in the birth population will slightly decrease in 2022, while the proportion of three children and above will increase slightly. In this regard, Wei Zining believes that according to this "Communique", it should be noted that the combined proportion of second and third children has decreased compared with the previous year, which shows that the proportion of one child has increased.

U.S. CPI rose 3.7% year-on-year in September

Data released by the U.S. Department of Labor on the 12th showed that the U.S. consumer price index, or CPI, rose 3.7% year-on-year in September. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 4.1% year-on-year in September.

In view of the continued easing of inflationary pressure in the United States, financial markets generally expect that the Federal Reserve's current round of interest rate hikes is nearing its end.

Since this week, Fed Vice Chairman, Governors and several Federal Open Market Committee members have said that rising U.S. bond yields have weakened the need for further interest rate increases. The latest market trends in the U.S. federal funds interest rate swap market show that the probability of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates by 25 basis points in November has dropped below 10%.

Sam's Club was fined NT$100,000 for labeling sugary drinks as sugar-free

According to city reports, the Aiqicha App shows that recently, Wal-Mart China East Department Store Co., Ltd.’s Sam’s Club store on Gaoke West Road, Pudong, Shanghai, was fined 100,000 yuan by the Shanghai Pudong New Area Market Supervision and Administration Bureau for false or misleading commercial promotions.

The reason for the punishment shows that when the party sold corn silk tea products whose country of origin was Japan in the store, the price label declared the product to be "sugar-free", but the carbohydrate value in the Chinese nutritional label on the outer packaging of the product was 79.4g/100g. , does not show its carbohydrate content, and does not meet the requirements and conditions for the content claim of "no or sugar-free" in the national standards. Another investigation found that the Chinese label on the outer packaging of the product did not contain barley as an ingredient, and the price tag declared "Jiang Bean with Barley". This was because the staff involved mistakenly placed another product's label on this product.

It is worth mentioning that this store had previously been fined 100,000 yuan for claiming to be low-sugar coffee, but actually did not meet the "low-sugar" requirements of the national standards.

According to previous media reports, sugar-free drinks are not really sugar-free. According to my country's "Management Specifications for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods", foods containing less than 0.5g of sugar per 100ml of liquid or per 100g of solid are defined as sugar-free foods. Many beverages on the market control the amount of added sugar below 0.5g/100ml according to this standard. So sugar-free does not mean no added sugar in the actual sense.

The number of suicide deaths in South Korea in the past three years is approaching 40,000

According to Yonhap News Agency on October 11, data obtained by Baek Jong-heon, a member of the Health and Welfare Committee of the South Korean National Assembly, from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention on the 11th showed that the number of suicide deaths from 2020 to 2022 was 39,435, which was higher than the number of deaths caused by the new coronavirus in the same period. With the death toll, suicide prevention measures are urgent.

Last year, 25.2 people per 100,000 people committed suicide in South Korea. In the past five years, the suicide rate has declined slightly, but the suicide rate has increased mainly among those aged 10 to 29. The suicide rate in the 10 to 19 age group increased from 5.8 in 2018 to 7.2 last year, while the suicide rate in the 20 to 29 age group increased from 17.6 to 21.4 during the same period.

The number of suicide attempts is also on the rise. Last year, 36,754 people sought medical treatment for self-harm or attempted suicide, a 68% increase from 21,875 in 2012. The response rate to the suicide prevention consultation hotline 1393 is only slightly more than 50%. From 2018 to August this year, the response rate to the 1393 suicide prevention consultation call was 54.5%, which means that nearly half of the people who had suicidal thoughts failed to get through to the consultation call.