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CICC and others set up a venture capital partnership in Xiamen. According to the enterprise search APP, Zhongjin Qiyuan Phase II (Xiamen) Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership) was recently established with a capital contribution of 400 million yuan. Its business scope includes: engaging in equity investment, investment management, asset management and other activities with private equity funds. Enterprise investigation shows that the company is jointly held by CICC Capital Operation Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CICC.This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.Zuckerberg is reported to have donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Zuckerberg's donation is the latest move to strengthen relations with Trump.

At the close of early trading, the main contracts of domestic futures rose more and fell less. Fuel oil rose by nearly 4%, coke, Shanghai nickel, low sulfur fuel oil (LU), SC crude oil and coking coal rose by over 2%, and glass, sugar, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and alumina rose by over 1%. In terms of decline, the European line of container transportation fell by more than 2%, and pigs fell by more than 1%.Korean Air passed the US antitrust review, clearing the way for completing the Asiana Airlines transaction.Daiwa Capital Market raised the target price of Tesla from $285 to $420.

Hua Fu Securities completed the capital increase and share expansion of over 4.7 billion yuan, and the Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange issued a closing announcement: the capital increase and share expansion project of Hua Fu Securities was launched. There were 17 participants in this capital increase, including 4 original shareholder units and 13 new investors, with a total investment of about 4.757 billion yuan. According to China, a brokerage firm, Hua Fu Securities' capital increase and share expansion has attracted wide attention in the market, becoming the largest equity financing case in the securities industry this year.Japan's housing prices exceed the annual income by 10 times and Tokyo's by 18 times. According to the Nikkei News, in Japan, the price of new residential buildings has risen faster than the increase of wages, making it increasingly difficult for the actual demand class to afford. As an investment target, the popularity is deeply rooted, and developers also supply a large number of houses with over 100 million yen. Especially in Tokyo, the average price is 18 times of the annual income, and it is becoming a market that ignores the actual demand level. According to the prefectures and counties in Japan, the highest ratio of house price to income is 17.78 times that of Tokyo. The average annual income is 5.92 million yen, and the price of residential buildings reaches 105.26 million yen.Ministry of Water Resources: A number of projects to fully promote the construction of the national water network are accelerating. On December 12, the State Council Office held a press conference to introduce the tenth anniversary of the first phase of the East Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Zhang Xiangwei, director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that the Ministry of Water Resources has made every effort to promote the construction of the national water network according to the overall deployment of the Outline of the National Water Network Construction Plan, focusing on networking, supplementing the network and strengthening the chain. Judging from the main artery of the national water network, the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project is accelerating. From the point of view of the backbone water transport and drainage channels of the national water network, a number of major inter-basin water diversion projects have been completed, such as connecting the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, connecting the Han River and Weihe River, and allocating water resources in the Pearl River Delta. At the same time, the water resources allocation around the Beibu Gulf, the backbone project of Jilin water network, the second phase of Huaihe River's waterway into the sea and other projects that have been demonstrated for many years have all started construction and are actively promoting the implementation of the projects.