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◆ On the evening of February 17, Beijing time, the third qualifying round of the 20 15 AFC Champions League was all over. Beijing Guoan Team and Guangzhou R&F Team, two teams in the Super League, respectively defeated their opponents and successfully advanced to the AFC Champions League group stage in the new season.

◆ In recent years, the number of outbound tourists in China has increased year by year, exceeding 1 100 million in 20 14 years. Such a large number of tourists have poured out of the country, which not only increases China people's understanding of other civilizations, but also opens a window for the world to understand Chinese civilization.

◆ On February 17, the Ministry of Environmental Protection released the air quality status of 74 cities including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta region, municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capitals and cities with separate plans in June 17. In June, 5438+ 10, the average number of days reaching the standard in 74 cities increased from 37.6% in the same period of last year to 48.2%, an increase of 10.6 percentage points, and the air quality was improved. Among the days exceeding the standard, PM2.5 is the most important pollutant, followed by PM 10.

◆ On the last trading day before the 2015 Spring Festival, most domestic commodity markets "reduced their positions for the holidays", and the commodity composite index tracking the price performance of a basket of listed commodities fell slightly by 0.02%.

◆ According to the website of the National Tourism Administration, during the Spring Festival of 20 15, tourists were enthusiastic about traveling. According to the National Tourism Administration's National Tourism Team Service Management System, the number of outbound tourists (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) will reach 510.9 million this year, an increase of about 10% year-on-year.

◆ The Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security reported on the evening of February 19: As of June 17, the national road traffic safety situation was generally stable, the expressways and national and provincial trunk highways were generally smooth, and no traffic accidents with more than 5 deaths occurred.

◆ The tourism market information released by the National Tourism Administration on February 19 shows that there are rich and colorful tourism festivals all over the country, and the Spring Festival Temple Fair and other activities have attracted a large number of tourists, and tourists from sightseeing and leisure scenic spots abound in the city. Suburban folklore, countryside, hot spring tourism and family long-distance tourism have been launched one after another, and leisure and holiday products in warm areas such as Yunnan and Qionglai have been welcomed by the market.

◆ On New Year's Eve, the colorful CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Sheep triggered a heated discussion among netizens about traditional culture and program content.

◆ From February 1 1, the online red envelope war started. After a week of pre-holiday warm-up, the final showdown was staged on New Year's Eve, and the amount of red envelopes was greatly increased. At five o'clock from 20: 00 to 24: 00, Alipay invested 654.38 billion yuan in cash-filled red envelopes in the form of "grabbing red envelopes". As the founder of the Spring Festival red envelope activity, WeChat joined hands with CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time. From 8: 00 pm, users can "shake" their mobile phones to grab more than 500 million yuan of cash-filled red envelopes provided by corporate sponsors. According to the data released by Tencent on February 9/kloc-0, during the broadcast of the Spring Festival Evening, the total number of WeChat "shake" interactions reached 1 1 billion times, with a peak of 8 1 billion times per minute.

◆20 15 The National People's Congress is just around the corner, and the supervision of Internet finance, especially P2P online lending industry, has become a topic of great concern in the industry. Some insiders said that 20 15 may become the first year of P2P supervision, and standardization, marketization and legalization will run through. The influx of capital predators from all walks of life has pushed the industry competition to the "Red Sea".

◆ In order to give full play to the effect of duty-free shopping policy for tourists from outlying islands in Hainan and vigorously promote the construction of Hainan as an international tourist island, the Ministry of Finance, after consulting with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration of the United States, submitted it to the State Council for approval and decided to adjust and improve some tax-free policies for outlying islands from March 20, 200015.

◆ Starting from May this year 1, the minimum wage for employees in Guangzhou enterprises was adjusted from 1550 yuan/month to 1895 yuan/month, and the hourly minimum wage for part-time employees was adjusted to 18.3 yuan/hour.

◆ During the Spring Festival of New Year's Day this year, the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection opened an exposure area for the supervision and reporting of the "four winds" problem, and reported mental cases in violation of the eight central regulations every week. Up to now, 620 cases have been reported for five consecutive weeks, and 855 people have been named and exposed.

◆ State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China reported on February 2 1 day that in 20 14, small and micro enterprises enjoyed corporate income tax, value-added tax and business tax concessions, with a total tax reduction of 61200 million yuan.

As the most basic Internet application, instant messaging ranks first in the utilization rate of smart applications on computers and mobile phones. With the decrease of smartphone price and the increase of popularity, the usage rate of mobile instant messaging has surpassed that of PC by the end of 20 14.

◆ In view of the frequent violations of laws and regulations and serious dishonesty of some dating websites, in order to crack down on the chaos of online dating websites in accordance with the law, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and promote the institutionalization of online integrity construction, the National Network Information Office, together with relevant departments, launched a nationwide special rectification work of "serious violations and dishonesty of dating websites".

◆ On February 22nd, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year's Day, the traffic flow of major highways and national and provincial trunk highways in China increased significantly, and there was once a phenomenon of vehicles queuing on expressway sections such as Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and Beijing-Tibet Expressway.

◆ Three-dimensional greening construction has become one of the main ways to increase the amount of green and improve the living environment in the central city of Shanghai. By the end of 20 14, the city had built roof greening1890,000 square meters.

◆ On February 22nd, it was learned from the National Development and Reform Commission that in 20 15, the Development and Reform Commission will promote the construction of a number of major transportation infrastructure projects. This year, we will focus on building railways in the central and western regions.

February 22nd is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and most people are still enjoying the Spring Festival holiday. In Zhu Qiao Town, which is adjacent to Pudong Airport, and in China Commercial Aircraft Assembly Base, employees from all corners of the country have returned to the factory in advance. Domestic large aircraft officially started in the Year of the Sheep.

◆ On February 23, the tourism market information released by the National Tourism Administration showed that long-distance tourists entered the return stage one after another, the passenger flow of roads, railways and civil aviation increased significantly, and the operating pressure of tourism traffic increased. Short-distance tourism still maintains a high level, and tourists are concentrated in the surrounding areas of the city and folk leisure scenic spots in the city.

◆ After the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep, a number of new policies in China's real estate, finance and taxation, industry and commerce will be implemented intensively, which is conducive to healthy economic development, deepening reform and bringing more benefits to the people. The Provisional Regulations on Real Estate Registration will be officially implemented on March 1 2065438, and the real estate registration has finally entered the practical operation stage after more than seven years.

◆ Li Xiaojia, CEO of ◆HKEx, said after attending the opening ceremony of the Year of the Sheep on February 23rd that the short selling mechanism of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will be launched soon. The initial scale is limited, but it will gradually get better.

The construction of the national marine ecological environment supervision and management system has achieved initial results. The four core subsystems of marine environmental monitoring and evaluation, marine ecological protection and construction, marine environmental supervision and management and video consultation were put into trial operation, the comprehensive database was basically completed, and the system standard system was initially established. The system is planned to be fully put into operation in 20 15.

In Fuzhou, innovation has become a strong engine of urban development, which promotes the transformation from "Made in Fuzhou" to "Made in Fuzhou". From Minhou Automobile Industry City to Lianjiang Kemen Port Industrial Zone, from traditional advantageous industries to emerging high-tech industries, a number of 100 billion industrial clusters are rising in Minjiang Estuary. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the top 100 enterprises in China's software business revenue in 20 14 years, and all four enterprises in Fujian were located in Fuzhou.

◆ In order to lay a solid foundation for food security and make scientific use of precious water resources, China will speed up the construction of farmland water conservancy in 20 15, and add more than 20 million mu of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation area.

◆ The Spring Festival Red Packet Carnival is equivalent to a nationwide mobile payment training, which accelerates the popularization of mobile payment, opens up the imagination of business model innovation, and increases the endogenous motivation of economic transformation and upgrading. The small red envelope has released huge chain energy and is a footnote for the surging innovation vitality under the new economic normal.

◆ The Spring Festival holiday has just ended, and the first round of inspection by the Central Committee has started on 20 15. The first units to be stationed are State Grid, CSIC and Huaneng Group.

◆ On February 27th, the Ministry of Environmental Protection informed the media that the Ministry of Environmental Protection publicly interviewed the main responsible comrades of the people's governments of Linyi, Shandong Province and Chengde, Hebei Province, stopped three illegal construction projects, and urged local governments, environmental protection departments and enterprises to strictly implement their environmental protection responsibilities.

◆ There are about 600,000 villages in China, including about 5,000 ancient villages. 156 1 is defined as a traditional village by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and National Cultural Heritage Administration. Most of these villages were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some can be traced back to the Tang and Song Dynasties, and some villages can even be traced back to ancient times. The 100-episode large-scale documentary "Remember Homesickness" selected 100 traditional villages for shooting, field visits and real records. One episode, one village, one legend, tells a vivid and touching story of ancient and modern times around thousands of years of traditional Chinese virtues such as loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, diligence, honesty, benevolence, courtesy and wisdom.

international news

◆ On February 23rd, all the winners of the 87th Academy Awards were released, and Birdman won the four awards of best film, best director, best photography and best original script, becoming the biggest winner; The supporting roles of Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything and Julie Anmore in Alice in Wonderland belong to J-K- Simmons and Patricia Arquette. Best foreign language film Sister Ada, Comic Hero 6 and documentary Citizen 4; The Grand Budapest Hotel won four technical awards.

Australian Prime Minister Tony tony abbott said at the Australian Federal Police Headquarters in Canberra on March 23rd that the Australian government would implement a number of stricter measures to deal with the threat of terrorism.

◆ Following the resumption of bilateral talks between the United States and Iran on the Iranian nuclear issue, the six countries (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) and the European Union also held a new round of multilateral talks with Iran on February 22nd. Not long ago, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi described the current stage of the marathon negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue as "the last mile".

2015 is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the victory of the world anti-fascist war. The United Nations and countries around the world will hold a series of commemorative activities. At this important historical moment, China, as the rotating president of the Security Council this month, proposed to hold an open debate with the theme of "Maintaining international peace and security: taking history as a mirror and reaffirming our firm commitment to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter" on February 23rd, which kicked off a series of commemorative activities.

◆ In the early morning of February 22, the Turkish military dispatched troops to cross the border into northern Syria to launch military operations to rescue Turkish soldiers surrounded by the extremist organization "Islamic State" and escort them back to Turkey. The Syrian government quickly issued a statement condemning Turkey's actions, saying that "this aggression is intolerable".

◆ On the evening of February 2 1 Kiev time, Ukrainian government forces and civilian armed forces in eastern Ukraine began to exchange prisoners of war. A total of 139 Ukrainian government soldiers and 52 eastern civilian armed personnel were released.

US Defense Secretary Carter, who is visiting Afghanistan, said on February 22 that training and guiding Afghan security forces has become the core task of the US military in Afghanistan.

◆ On February 2 1 day, Nigerian military spokesman Major General Olukrad issued a statement here saying that the Nigerian military carried out a large-scale clean-up operation against Boko Haram, an extremist organization entrenched in the northeastern town of Baja, and successfully recovered the town and its surrounding areas on the same day.

◆ On February 20th, the World Health Organization approved a new rapid detection tool for Ebola virus to be put into use. According to reports, this detection method developed by American Gnex Medical Products Company can determine whether there is Ebola virus within 15 minutes, and it does not require electricity or high-level training during operation, so it can be promoted in remote areas.

◆ At the invitation of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Boehner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the National Assembly on March 3, and will deliver a speech against reaching a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue. Because Netanyahu deliberately concealed from the Obama administration before announcing this visit, the White House said that President Obama would not meet with Netanyahu on the grounds that "the Israeli election is just around the corner, and meeting with Netanyahu is not in line with diplomatic practice". Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Kerry will also arrange business trips during Netanyahu's visit to Washington. The rift between America and Israel has deepened.

◆ On February 25th, US President Barack Obama authorized the establishment of a new network security agency, aiming at coordinating and integrating the network information collected by existing institutions in the United States and strengthening the ability of the United States to respond to cyber threats.

◆ Cypriot President Anastasiadis paid an official visit to Russia on February 25th and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the visit, the two countries signed an agreement to expand defense cooperation.

◆ On February 26th, the Ukrainian army began to withdraw heavy weapons from the conflict area. In order to fulfill the Minsk agreement reached in February 12, Ukrainian government forces will begin to withdraw artillery with a caliber exceeding 100 mm on the 26th. Basurin, commander of civilian armed forces in eastern Ukraine, also said on February 26th that civilian armed forces had withdrawn howitzers and other weapons under the supervision of OSCE representatives, and would begin to withdraw hail rockets on February 27th.

◆ The sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly held a plenary meeting on February 26th and unanimously adopted a resolution on commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war. The resolution decides that the General Assembly will hold a special meeting in May this year to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war, recognizing that all Member States have their own anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist war and that the Second World War has caused great suffering to all mankind, especially people in Asia, Europe and other regions.

◆ South African Interior Minister Jigaba announced on February 26th that South Africa has relaxed the visa policy for BRICS executives. Qualified senior managers from Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China can obtain multiple-entry visas valid for 65,438+00 years, regardless of their passports. The visa stipulates a maximum stay of 30 days at a time, which took effect on February 23 last year.

◆ The announcement issued by the Russian Central Bank on February 26th shows that Russia's international reserves decreased by $3.7 billion from February 13 to February 20th, shrinking by 1%. At present, Russia's international reserves have dropped for six consecutive weeks to 364.6 billion US dollars, the lowest level since April 2007. The sharp decline of Russia's international reserves is closely related to the current world political and economic situation. At present, Russia is taking various measures to increase international reserves and ensure the normal operation of the economy.