e currency business Top Knowledge

China Bank's RMB clearing volume in Australia exceeded 100 trillion yuan. According to Bank of China, recently, Bank of China Sydney Branch and Bank of China Hong Kong jointly held a RMB forum in Sydney to celebrate the 10th anniversary of being an Australian RMB clearing bank. As the only RMB clearing bank in the South Pacific at present, in the past ten years, China Bank has taken root in Australia and South Pacific, continuously expanded its clearing network, cooperated with four local banks and other financial institutions in Australia, and became the main channel for RMB clearing of local important banks, providing RMB clearing volume of more than 100 trillion yuan.Gao Weibing: Guangzhou Institute will improve the variety layout of new energy and new materials. On December 12th, 2024 China New Energy and New Materials Industry Conference was held in Guangzhou. Gao Weibing, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guangzhou Futures Exchange, said that in the near future, Guangzhou Futures Exchange will launch polysilicon futures and options to form a linkage with industrial silicon, providing more effective price signals and risk management tools for the photovoltaic industry chain. In the next step, Guangzhou Institute will thoroughly implement the spirit of "Opinions on Strengthening Supervision and Preventing Risks to Promote the High-quality Development of Futures Market", based on the fundamental purpose of serving the real economy and the characteristic orientation of serving the green development, improve the variety layout of new energy and new materials, increase market cultivation, continuously enrich the supervision toolbox, and strive to ensure the safe and stable operation of the market and better serve the needs of the real economy. (China Nonferrous Metals News)Add 121.3 billion cubic meters! The proven reserves of Fuling shale gas field have exceeded one trillion cubic meters. The reporter learned from China Petrochemical today (12th) that China has made great progress in shale gas exploration. The proven reserves in Nanchuan block of Fuling shale gas field have increased by 121.356 billion cubic meters, and the accumulated proven reserves have reached one trillion cubic meters, which has added protection to national energy security. (CCTV News)

Zhonggong Education: Director Yi Ziting resigned due to retirement. Zhonggong Education announced that the company's board of directors recently received a written resignation report from Director Yi Ziting. Yi Ziting applied to the company's board of directors for resignation due to retirement, and will not hold other positions in the company after resignation.Huazhi Liquor Store: It is planned to distribute a cash dividend of 8.09 yuan for every 10 shares. Huazhi Liquor Store announced that the company's profit distribution plan for the first three quarters of 2024 has been approved by the shareholders' meeting. The company will distribute a cash dividend of RMB 8.09 to all shareholders for every 10 shares based on the existing total share capital of 417 million shares and the share capital of 408 million shares after 9,098,100 shares have been repurchased in the repurchase special securities account. The total amount of cash dividends actually distributed was 330 million. The distribution of rights and interests in date of record is December 19th, 2024, and the ex-dividend date is December 20th, 2024. This dividend does not involve bonus shares and capitalization of capital reserve.South Korea's Seoul Composite Index rose to 1%.

French President Macron: Without Europeans, Europe will not be safe.Nanxin Technology: The equity of shareholders Shunwei Technology and its concerted actions changed to less than 5%. Nanxin Technology announced that the shareholders of the company Shunwei Technology and its concerted actions Hangzhou Shunying, Wuhan Shunying and Wuhan Shunhong reduced their holdings of the company's shares and passively diluted their equity, and the total number of shares held by the company changed from 30,843,800 shares to 21,272,800 shares, accounting for 7.2826% to 4.9999% of the company's total share capital, no longer.Gobi Venture Capital announced in Shanghai that it will launch a $50 million venture capital fund to support Pakistan's technology start-ups. On December 12th, at the Pakistan Investment Summit held in Shanghai, Gobi Venture Capital, an Asian venture capital company, officially announced the launch of a $50 million fund Techxila Fund II to support Pakistan's start-ups, focusing on high-potential industries such as financial technology, e-commerce logistics and supply chain, health technology and SaaS. Gobi Venture Capital also signed a memorandum of understanding with Punjab Bank (BoP). (First Financial Reporter Qian Tongxin)