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On the afternoon of June 9th, in an interview with reporters, it was the last official itinerary of the Secretary for Finance and Treasury of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Xu Zhengyu, in Shanghai. Afterwards, he will take a flight back to Hong Kong. The day before, he came to Shanghai to attend events related to the Lujiazui Forum and visited local financial institutions. More than 20 years ago, Xu Zhengyu, who graduated from Oxford University, worked in Shanghai for a period of time as a staff member of Standard Chartered Bank. "For me, Shanghai is a constantly changing memory, a young and mature city." As an authentic Hong Kong native, he speaks Mandarin very well, and even occasionally has some "er hua" sounds. Xu Zhengyu's three sentences remain true to his main business: "I feel that Shanghai's financial institutions, talent density, and financial service quality are constantly improving. Some people say it's the same every year, but I feel that it may be even faster.".

The Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences and the Social Science Literature Publishing House jointly released the "Guangdong Blue Book: Analysis and Prediction of Guangdong's Economic and Social Situation" yesterday. The blue book analysis pointed out that in 2023, the overall economic operation of Guangdong Province will rebound, and it is expected that the regional gross domestic product will grow by about 5.2% in 2023, reaching about 14 trillion yuan. The Blue Book points out that in 2023, despite the uncertainty of the global economy, China will continue to implement active fiscal and prudent monetary policies, increase macroeconomic policy regulation, strengthen coordination and cooperation among various policies, and form a joint force to promote high-quality development. These measures to stabilize the overall economy and promote high-quality development will further stabilize market expectations, boost development confidence, and solidify the foundation of development, providing strong guarantees and solid support for the sustained and healthy development of Guangdong's economy.

The 14th China Photography Art Festival and the 5th Swan City - China Sanmenxia Natural Ecology International Photography Exhibition will open on June 18th in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province. The relevant press conference was held in Beijing on the 12th. In recent years, the China Film Association has held multiple important exhibitions around major themes and important time points. These exhibitions will be concentrated during the art festival, using images as carriers to sing the main melody and spread positive energy. Among them, "Building Dreams - Our New Era Photography Exhibition" vividly showcases the historic achievements and changes that the Party has made in leading the people to create a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and embarking on a new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country; "Together Towards the Future - China Ice and Snow Sports Photography Exhibition", allowing the public to relive the passion of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics

Yesterday, Beijing Wonderful Time Cultural Media Co., Ltd. held a press conference during the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival to exchange the latest film list of "Beijing Wonderful" for 2023 with industry colleagues. The dozens of film works showcased at this press conference cover a variety of genres and themes, including action, comedy, animation, song and dance, science fiction, and more. At the press conference, a long scroll of "Chinese Youth Universe" with rich content slowly opened. The lion raises its head and leaps eastward, accompanied by the perspective of the protagonist Ajuan in "The Lion Youth", the scenes in each film are vividly depicted on paper, showcasing the rich core of the "Chinese Youth Universe". Regarding why the film product planning for "Beijing Wonderful" is named "China Youth Universe", Zhang Miao, the general manager, producer, and distributor of "Beijing Wonderful", responded: "Young people are the main players in the film market."

After concluding her visit to Shanghai, the President of Honduras, Iris Hiomala Castro Samento, and her delegation came to Beijing. On the afternoon of the first day in Beijing, some government officials and business representatives from Honduras who accompanied the President came to the auditorium of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade to participate in the first China Honduras High level Entrepreneurs Exchange Conference. "In fact, last week, Honduras' Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Redondo, led a delegation of entrepreneurs to China, visiting Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu and other places intensively, fully communicating and coordinating with local governments and enterprises, and achieving rich results." Sun Xiao, Secretary General of the China International Chamber of Commerce, said, "Today, representatives from the political and business communities of the two countries gathered together again, fully reflecting everyone's high attention and earnest expectations for strengthening exchanges and enhancing cooperation."

The reporter learned from the Beijing Railway Bureau of China that in order to meet the travel needs of the general public, starting from June 15th, adjustments have been made to the train schedules of the Beijing Tianjin Intercity Railway, Beijing Tang Intercity Railway, Tangcao Line and other lines, with a precise implementation of "one map per day". Relevant train tickets have been issued since 16:00 on June 9th. After this timetable adjustment, some of the intercity trains between Beijing and Tianjin will use multiple or long form multiple unit trains to effectively enhance transportation capacity, meet the travel needs of passengers between Beijing and Tianjin, and further upgrade the "Beijing Tianjin Hebei on the track". After the adjustment of the Beijing Tianjin intercity train schedule, 117 pairs of trains will operate on Monday, 114 pairs of trains will operate from Tuesday to Thursday, 125 pairs of trains will operate on Friday, 120 pairs of trains will operate on Saturday, and 124 pairs of trains will operate on Sunday. In addition, after adjusting the timetable, taking a train from Beijing to Caofeidian can be compressed to 1 at the fastest speed

The 2023 APEC Leaders' Informal Meeting will be held in San Francisco, USA in November of this year. Due to the Trump era, the United States imposed sanctions on 11 Hong Kong SAR government officials, including the then Director of Security, Lee Ka chao. So, whether Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao, who has been sanctioned by the United States, can attend the APEC meeting in the United States this year has attracted much attention from the outside world. According to Reuters, some members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 7 local time, threatening to "prohibit the US sanctioned Chief Executive Li Jiachao of Hong Kong from attending the APEC Summit in November". In response to the remarks made by American politicians, the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Office responded on June 8th, stating that Li Jiachao led the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to firmly fulfill its responsibility to maintain national security, and that "any country..."

A song used by Hong Kong gangsters to incite independence during the 2019 amendment controversy has been repeatedly played as the national anthem in international competitions in Hong Kong. Despite multiple negotiations between the SAR government and Google, the latter still refused to replace songs that incite "independence" under the pretext of technical reasons. So the Hong Kong SAR government took action.The Department of Justice wrote in the complaint seeking a court injunction prohibiting the dissemination, performance, printing, publication, sale, dissemination, or display of "solo songs", including melodies, lyrics, or any adapted versions. The related behavior intends to insult the national anthem and violates the National Anthem Regulations, which is highly likely to lead to

Dream of the Red Chamber, as a treasure in the treasure trove of Chinese literature, is an insurmountable peak in the history of Chinese novels and a masterpiece of excellent traditional Chinese culture. Cao Xueqin lived and created "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" area of Haidian District, Beijing. For hundreds of years, many legends about Cao Xueqin and "Dream of the Red Chamber" have been circulating in the Xiangshan and Baijiatuan areas of Haidian. In order to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, Haidian District of Beijing has focused on the important cultural brands and distinctive symbols of "Red Culture" and "Cao Culture" in the region, and has spent two years carefully creating the new era Chinese classical dance drama "Cao Xueqin". Stage stills. The work is set against the backdrop of the protagonist's era - the capital city in the mid Qing Dynasty. The structure of the preface, four acts, and ending is both time oriented and breaks through time boundaries, using a large number of inverted elements

Yesterday afternoon, the first China TV Drama Conference sub forum with the theme of "The Ideal, Practice, and Future of Chinese Science Fiction Drama" was held at Xiamen University. Tencent Video joined hands with the creators of the TV drama "The Three Body Problem" to enter Xiamen University. Since its launch on Tencent Video in January 2023, the TV series "Three Body Problem" has received high praise and popularity. Later, it landed on overseas platforms and made positive and beneficial attempts to convey mainstream values in the East and expand its culture overseas. After seven years of refinement, this drama presents a high-quality science fiction work to the audience while remaining faithful to the original work, pioneering the creation of science fiction realism. At the meeting, Yang Lei, the chief director of "The Three Body Problem," admitted that the biggest difficulty in the filming process was that there were no benchmark or reference projects for domestic science fiction dramas before, and there was a focus on characters as the core and character relationships as the foundation

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences organized a monthly press conference on major achievements in Beijing yesterday, launching the first batch of major projects and the final results of the National Social Science Foundation project after the establishment of the Chinese Academy of History - "History of National Unification in the Qing Dynasty". The History of National Unification in the Qing Dynasty is edited by Xing Guangcheng and Li Dalong, with a total of 1.1 million words. It consists of 13 chapters, main references, a chronology of major events in the history of national unification in the Qing Dynasty, and postscript. The whole book starts from the perspective of "national unity", fully absorbing the latest achievements of Qing history research, and based on rich historical materials, systematically elaborates on the process of achieving, consolidating, and maintaining national unity in the Qing Dynasty from different dimensions such as time, space, and system. The book also comprehensively discusses the historical facts of the Qing Dynasty's governance of border areas from the perspective of consolidating and maintaining unity, presenting the overall picture of national unity in the Qing Dynasty

Shanghai is building a highland for future industrial innovation and developing and strengthening future industrial clusters. According to the action plan, it is planned that by 2030, a group of globally influential hardcore achievements, innovative enterprises, and leading talents will emerge in the fields of future health, future intelligence, future energy, future space, and future materials, with a future industrial output value of about 500 billion yuan. By 2035, form several future industrial clusters that lead the world. In order to focus on cutting-edge technology and application innovation globally, and promote technological innovation and industrialization of achievements in the future industrial field through a dual wheel drive model of "project+talent", and provide project and talent support for Shanghai to build a future industrial innovation highland, the 2023 Global "Future Industry Star" Competition has been launched. The competition is organized by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and the Municipal Education Commission

The TV drama "Illuminating You", reviewed and approved by the National Fire and Rescue Bureau, guided and assisted by the Guangdong Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps and Shenzhen Fire and Rescue Detachment, is currently popular on Tencent Video. "Illuminating You" tells the story of firefighter Jin Shichuan who rescued a girl named Xu Lai from an earthquake rescue mission ten years ago and made a promise of ten years. Ten years later, Xu Lai grew into an excellent journalist. When he formed a search and rescue dog team in the city's fire rescue brigade, he became the team's search and rescue dog trainer as an international dog trainer, and partnered with Jin Shichuan, who was then the station manager and captain of the search and rescue dog team of the city's fire rescue special service brigade. The beam of "light" that illuminates is the "hope light" that Jin Shichuan saved Xu Lai ten years ago, and also the "warm light" that Xu Lai heals Jin Shichuan. Due to the involvement of a large number of factors such as social assistance and emergency rescue in the drama

The northwest region of China is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, with a scarce source of water vapor and a dry climate. However, in recent years, there has been a significant increase in precipitation in the northwest, and the warming and humidification of the northwest is attracting high attention. At the 2022 Top 10 Scientific and Technological Progress Conference on China's Ecological Environment held in Beijing today, Zhang Qiang, a first level inspector and chief engineer of the Gansu Provincial Meteorological Bureau, served as one of the presenters and introduced relevant research. Zhang Qiang introduced that when Shi Yafeng proposed the phenomenon of northwest warming and humidification in the early 21st century, the amplitude of humidification was relatively weak and the area of humidification was relatively small. Recent research has found that the trend of humidity in the northwest region has shown a non-linear enhancement in the past 40 years, and the amplitude has become quite significant. In the 30 years after 1990, the growth rate of precipitation was about three times that of the 30 years before 1990. The study also found that the warming and humidification phenomenon in the northwest has shifted from the initial northwest to the western part of the country

Zongzi in Shanghai, Luosifen in Guangxi, Pu'er tea in Yunnan, hot pot in Chongqing, Oolong tea in Fujian, coconut chicken in Hainan, Yueju Opera in Zhejiang, Suzhou embroidery in Jiangsu, Bianzhong in Hubei... where is it so lively? Originally, from June 3rd to 5th, the "Celebrating the 26th Anniversary of Hong Kong's Return to the Motherland Hometown Market Carnival" jointly organized by 26 provincial-level local communities was being held at the Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. "In the corner of the 'Hometown Market', Hong Kong citizens lined up to take photos as a souvenir. 'This is probably the largest and most distinctive themed market activity in Hong Kong, and the products launched are relatively affordable,'" a volunteer from the Zhejiang Association told reporters. The reporter saw on site that among over 200 stalls, Hong Kong citizens and tourists can "search" for local snacks, delicacies, handicrafts, and ethnic groups

Pre sales will start in mid May, final payment will be made on May 31st, and discounts will continue in early June. With major e-commerce platforms launching "618" activities, the slightly dull consumer market in the first half of this year has finally reached a small peak. According to data from platforms such as Tmall and JD.com, luxury goods, beauty, sports and health, and nutrition have become the highlights of consumption this year. On the Tmall platform, more than a dozen luxury brands such as Burberry and Chloe have completed transactions in 30 minutes, surpassing all transactions in the same period last year; After one hour of sales, brands such as L'Oreal, Perlier, Lancome, and Est é e Lauder have surpassed 100 million yuan, ushering in a comprehensive recovery in the beauty industry; Selling for 4 hours, sales of nutritional and health foods such as water milk, functional candies, light meals, and student milk powder exceeded the first day of last year. During the pre-sale period on the JD platform, the skiing category

"Do you need me to speak Mandarin or Cantonese?" Last Sunday, a duty-free shop attendant at the Hong Kong International Airport terminal suddenly asked a Shanghai girl named Zhou Xiao. This person drifted between Hong Kong and Shanghai for a moment, then fell silent and laughed. This can also be considered as the aftermath of the Cathay incident. After it was exposed at the end of last month that Cathay Pacific discriminated against mainland passengers, senior officials from the SAR government and Cathay Pacific management expressed apologies one after another, and the individuals involved were also expelled from the company. So, how do Shanghai residents living in Hong Kong view this matter, and will daily life change as a result? During this period of time, Zhou Xiao, like many friends from mainland China, chose to take flights from other airlines to and from Hong Kong and mainland China without further intensifying the conflict between the two regions. In her opinion, voting with her feet is the most direct and simple way of protest. Zhou Xiao has taken several Cathay Pacific flights before and felt that the company