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General Motors (GM): The unmanned business Cruise and GM Technical team will be merged, and the plan is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. According to the priority of GM's capital allocation, GM will no longer fund Cruise's self-driving taxi development business.Anhui Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.: A major project that won the bid of 15.506 billion yuan was announced by Anhui Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., and the company and its subsidiaries recently received the notice of winning the bid. The winning project is the Yangtze River Bridge and wiring project of Taishan Road in Wuhu, S24 Hanghe Expressway. The project is located in Wuhu City, and its main contents include investment, financing, survey and design, construction, operation management, maintenance, debt repayment and handover, with a total investment of about 15.506 billion yuan. The construction period of the project is 48 months and the charging period is 356 months. This project was jointly won by a consortium composed of several companies, such as CCCC Second Waterway Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd..Argentine President Millai: Argentina's economy will grow in 2025 and inflation will decline.

The Bank of Korea increased its liquidity to try to calm the market sentiment, and the Bank of Korea increased its capital injection into the financial market, promising to provide "unlimited liquidity" after the political turmoil intensified. According to the website of the Bank of Korea, the liquidity increased by 14.1 trillion won ($9.8 billion) through repurchase operations last week. The scale of such operations was 18.5 trillion won in November and only 1.5 trillion won in October.South Korean Finance Minister and US Treasury Secretary Yellen confirmed that they will work closely together.US Treasury Department: US Treasury Secretary Yellen expressed appreciation for the close communication between the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Korea and the United States after the recent events in South Korea.

Market information: Honda will terminate its autonomous driving partnership with General Motors.Jin Guanping, Economic Daily: Implement more active and promising macro policies. The article points out that the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on December 9 to analyze and study the economic work in 2025, and put forward "implement more active and promising macro policies" and "strengthen unconventional countercyclical adjustment" in view of the macro policy orientation next year, and clearly implement more active fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies. This important deployment has released a clear signal of strengthening macro-control and strong and steady growth. Implementing a "more active" fiscal policy means increasing fiscal countercyclical adjustment and improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy while maintaining policy stability and continuity. "Moderately loose" means that monetary policy will better reflect the supportive stance and orientation, maintain a reasonable and sufficient liquidity, and further reduce the comprehensive financing costs of enterprises and residents.Tomato Fiction: In the coming year, 200 million yuan will be invested to support fine content. On December 11th, at the Tomato Fiction Creators' Conference, Tomato Fiction announced that it will invest 200 million yuan in cash to support fine content in 2025, and continue to launch a series of support plans to make efforts in IP ecology. In 2024, tomato novels launched more than 10 support programs, and a total of 120 million yuan of extra bonuses were distributed.