CCTV News: At the beginning of the new year, everything will be renewed. Start and do it, with the word "生" as the beginning. At the beginning of 2025, all walks of life will work hard and continue to strive to make a good start and a good start for the new year.

All localities continue to increase their efforts to implement the "two new" policies, innovate diversified consumption scenarios, and continuously stimulate new consumption vitality.

Continue to promote the "two new" policies to better meet consumer needs. Starting from January 1, a new round of policies for old-for-new consumer goods and large-scale equipment renewal will be implemented in Shandong, Sichuan, Hebei and other places. This year, the scope of subsidies in various places has become larger, and the subsidy redemption cycle has been shortened. Shandong has fully launched the top ten special actions for automobiles and home appliances for old-for-new. In 2025, it will promote the holding of 200 consumption promotion activities to promote stable growth of the consumer market. Hebei Province has launched a "one-stop" processing platform for old-for-new transactions, which will place vehicle registration registration, old battery recycling services, safety guidance and other businesses in sales stores and directly complete them through the Internet. In Dazhou, Sichuan, the local area launched a special subsidy activity of millions of home appliances, and a series of preferential activities were implemented in the superimposed manner. The home appliance consumer market remained hot, and the sales of home appliances increased by more than 10% year-on-year.

Jiangsu launches special subsidy activities for digital products such as mobile phones, tablets, and Bluetooth headphones. The subsidy standard is 15% of the product transaction price.

Promote large-scale trade-in of old in the industrial field. Liaoning is focusing on promoting the digital and intelligent transformation and update of industrial technology and special equipment in key areas such as equipment manufacturing and green and low-carbon transformation. Heilongjiang focuses on key industries such as chemicals, building materials, aviation, etc., vigorously promotes the renovation of production equipment, energy-consuming equipment, etc., and introduces policies such as investment subsidies during the construction period and rewards for good results.

Xiamen, Fujian has issued measures to increase efforts to implement the "two new" policies in 11 areas including equipment updates in the industrial field and energy-using equipment updates and transformations. It is planned to promote the implementation of 40 equipment update projects in the first quarter of this year to inject new impetus into the high-quality development of the economy.

Increase efforts in the new year, foreign capital is optimistic about new opportunities in China

At the beginning of the new year, a number of new foreign investment projects have been stepping up construction in various parts of my country. Foreign-funded enterprises are optimistic about the new opportunities brought by China's super-large-scale market, innovative vitality, and open policies, and continue to participate in China's economic development in depth.

Earing the new year, the Parkson Shopping Center located in the center of Shanghai is speeding up its renewal and transformation. This foreign department store, which was first established in Shanghai, signed a 15-year contract with the owner two months ago after the contract expired.

In addition to paying attention to the opportunities brought by China's consumption upgrading, many foreign-funded enterprises are also optimistic about the opportunities contained in the digitalization of China's manufacturing industry. In Suzhou, Jiangsu, two new factories of the Swiss instrument company are stepping up construction to expand the production capacity of smart instrument products.

Biomedicine is one of the key areas in my country's recent promotion of expansion of opening up. In Yizhuang, Beijing, French-funded enterprise Sanofi recently announced that it would invest 1 billion euros to set up a new production base here, setting a record for the company's largest single investment in China.

The restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing industry have been "cleared", and the pilot projects for opening up in the telecommunications, medical care, education and other fields in the service industry have been continuously expanded. China is relying on new advantages and new opportunities to attract the gathering of global factors.

The British Chamber of Commerce of China and the German Chamber of Commerce of China recently released survey reports, 76% of British companies plan to maintain or increase investment in China, 92% of German companies will continue to operate in China, and more than half will increase investment in the next two years.

In 2024, 19,000 China-Europe freight trains were launched

The reporter learned from the China Railway Group that in 2024, a total of 19,000 China-Europe freight trains were launched and 2.07 million standard boxes of goods were sent, an increase of 10% and 9% year-on-year respectively. Up to now, the China-Europe freight train has reached 227 cities in 25 European countries and more than 100 cities in 11 Asian countries.

The General Administration of Customs has issued 15 measures to promote the development of the western region

The General Administration of Customs has issued 15 measures on January 5, focusing on four aspects: promoting large-scale development through large-scale opening up and supporting the creation of a first-class port business environment, further promoting the formation of a new pattern of large-scale protection, large-scale development and high-quality development in the western region. In the first 11 months of 2024, the total import and export value of the western region was 3.63 trillion yuan, an increase of 8% year-on-year, setting a record high in the same period.

The world's largest pile driver "Second voyages Changqing" ship was delivered

The pile driver "Second voyages Changqing" ship was delivered in Qidong, Jiangsu on January 5. The wheel has a total length of 130.5 meters and a pile frame height of 150 meters. It uses a 5,000-ton thrust oil cylinder independently developed and produced in China. It can drive pile foundations with a maximum pile weight of 700 tons and a diameter of 7 meters. It is currently the largest pile driving ship in the world. After it is put into use, it will play an important role in the construction of cross-sea bridges and other projects.