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Turkish Foreign Minister held talks with US Secretary of State to discuss the situation in Syria. On December 13th, local time, Turkish Foreign Minister Feidan held talks with US Secretary of State Blinken, focusing on the latest development of the situation in Syria. Feidan said that the talks discussed the cooperation between Turkey and the United States. The primary task of the two countries is to ensure the stability of Syria and prevent extremist organizations "Islamic State" and the PKK from occupying a dominant position in Syria. In addition, the advancement of the armed "Syrian National Army" supported by Turkey in the region is also one of the topics. Blinken revealed that the United States and Turkey have reached a broad consensus on the future of Syria. The two sides discussed the future role of the United States and Turkey in Syria and the necessity of continuing efforts to crack down on the extremist organization "Islamic State". (CCTV News)Singapore Straits Times Index closed at 3,810.35.Huatong Co., Ltd.: The sales revenue of live pigs in November was 410 million yuan. Huatong Co., Ltd. announced that in November 2024, the company sold 201,000 pigs, including 10,600 piglets. The sales revenue of live pigs reached 410 million yuan, an increase of 20.56% from the previous month. The average selling price of commercial pigs was 16.5 yuan/kg, down 4.07% from October. In addition, the number of chickens sold in November was 1,205,900, a decrease of 47.69% from the previous month and a year-on-year increase of 19.79%. Chicken sales revenue was 20,213,700 yuan, an increase of 23.65% from the previous month. Sales data are unaudited for investors' reference.

6 Lianban Yibin Paper: The company's current P/B ratio is quite different from that of the same industry. Yibin Paper announced the abnormal fluctuation of stock trading. Since December 6, 2024, the company's stock has been trading daily for six consecutive trading days, with a cumulative increase of 77.12%. According to the data released by CSI official website, the latest P/B ratio of papermaking and packaging owned by the company is 1.69 times, and the latest P/B ratio of the company is 9.28 times. The current P/B ratio of the company is quite different from that of the same industry. Investors are advised to pay attention to risks.Huatong Co., Ltd.: The sales revenue of live pigs in November was 410 million yuan. Huatong Co., Ltd. announced that in November 2024, the company sold 201,000 pigs, including 10,600 piglets. The sales revenue of live pigs reached 410 million yuan, an increase of 20.56% from the previous month. The average selling price of commercial pigs was 16.5 yuan/kg, down 4.07% from October. In addition, the number of chickens sold in November was 1,205,900, a decrease of 47.69% from the previous month and a year-on-year increase of 19.79%. Chicken sales revenue was 20,213,700 yuan, an increase of 23.65% from the previous month. Sales data are unaudited for investors' reference.In the first three quarters, China's total cargo transportation was 41.63 billion tons, up 2.3% year-on-year. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing released the China Road Freight Development Report (2023-2024) today (13th). According to the report, due to the adjustment of transportation structure, although the proportion of road transportation in China has declined, it is still the main body of the freight market, and road freight has maintained steady growth. According to the report, in the first three quarters of this year, China's total cargo transportation was 41.63 billion tons, up 2.3% year-on-year. From the perspective of freight structure, the proportion of freight undertaken by railway and waterway transportation has increased, while the proportion of road transportation has decreased. In the first three quarters, the volume of road freight transport was 30.66 billion tons, up 3.1% year-on-year, accounting for more than 73%. Road transport is still the main body of the freight market. (CCTV News)

Four departments: Strengthen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises and build a number of vertical industry models suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision issued the Special Action Plan for Digital Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (2025-2027) to strengthen the application and promotion of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises. Give play to the platform role of on-site exchange activities in pilot cities of digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, publicize and promote typical application scenarios and solutions of artificial intelligence to empower small and medium-sized enterprises, and accelerate the replication and promotion of artificial intelligence applications in small and medium-sized enterprises. Encourage all localities to refer to the typical application cases and application maps of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the popularization of artificial intelligence technology in key business scenarios of small and medium-sized enterprises such as R&D design, manufacturing, quality inspection, operation and maintenance, and management. Strengthen the application foundation of artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises. Support open source communities such as the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation to take the lead in establishing an artificial intelligence open source community, set up special artificial intelligence open source projects focusing on the characteristic needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, and provide training frameworks, development examples, testing tools and open source codes that can be replicated and easily promoted. Guide small and medium-sized enterprises to actively participate in open source projects and lower the threshold for the deployment and development of artificial intelligence. Encourage leading enterprises, trading institutions, platform enterprises, data service enterprises and other business entities to build public data sets and industry data sets, and provide high-quality data for small and medium-sized enterprises for artificial intelligence model training. Build a number of vertical industry models suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, and strengthen the supply of large model technology products for small and medium-sized enterprises.BOC International: Reiterating that China Telecom is the first choice for the "buy" rating of Chinese telecom stocks, BOC International published a research report that the contribution of cloud services to revenue and profit continues to promote the growth of Chinese telecom operators, and cloud and artificial intelligence services are becoming the only sustainable driving force for Chinese telecom operators' revenue and EBITDA. China Telecom and China Unicom have recorded steady growth in profit margin of EBITDA in two quarters this year. With the development of state-owned enterprises and local governments, the bank expects to support the development of end-to-end proprietary cloud infrastructure services for telecom operators for a long time to improve security and regulatory requirements, and at the same time, Chinese telecom stocks can provide attractive valuation and dividend returns to support their long-term performance. Therefore, it reiterates its "buy" rating for Chinese telecom stocks, with China Telecom as the first choice, followed by China Unicom and China Mobile.Barclays: Raise the target price of Standard Chartered from 940p to 970p.