CCTV News:According to WeChat official account’s news that Shanghai Internet rumored WeChat, the Shanghai rumor platform recently received fans’ inquiries about whether the news that "Shanghai will bid for the Olympic Games" is true. Shanghai Sports Bureau replied that Shanghai has no plans to bid for the Olympic Games at present.

　　Although Shanghai has no plans to bid for the Olympic Games, it is closely related to the Olympic spirit. In May this year, when President Bach of the International Olympic Committee visited Shanghai, he said that many sports practices in Shanghai are exemplary. He looked forward to cooperation with Shanghai and believed that Shanghai would become an Olympic sports city. Gong Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai said that under the guidance of the International Olympic Committee, Shanghai will introduce more top international events, gather more international sports organizations, actively participate in international sports exchanges and cooperation, and make greater contributions to the development of the international Olympic cause.

　　According to the introduction of the Municipal Sports Bureau, in February this year, Shanghai formally submitted its bid to the International Olympic Committee for the first stop of the Olympic qualification series, including freestyle BMX, skateboarding, break dancing and rock climbing. Recently, the International Olympic Committee officially confirmed that Shanghai will be one of the host cities of the Olympic qualification series, and the competition will be held in Huangpu Riverside from May 16 to 19, 2024. In addition, in 2024, 2025 and 2026, Shanghai has introduced new international top single sports events. However, Shanghai has no plans to bid for the Olympic Games.

　　Maybe some netizens want to ask, there is also the word "Olympic Games" in the "Olympic Qualification Series". What is its relationship with the Olympic Games? As the name implies, the Olympic qualification series is a competition for athletes to qualify for the Olympic Games, and it is an important step for freestyle BMX, break dancing, skateboarding and rock climbing athletes to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, but it is very different from the comprehensive Olympic Games, and the two cannot be equated.

　　At the press conference held by the Shanghai Municipal Government on September 26th, we also introduced the holding of the Shanghai leg of the Olympic Qualifying Series. It is reported that Shanghai uses the existing riverside open space to hold the Olympic qualification series, hoping to create a more open, inclusive and shared sports environment for the citizens, and create a charming riverside waterfront space that is athletic, social, green, powerful, fast and hot.

"Hot Interpretation" combed and found that the word "expanding domestic demand" was repeatedly mentioned in this year’s high-level meeting. The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China held on March 4 pointed out that "it is necessary to combine the resumption of work with the expansion of domestic demand and release the restrained and frozen consumption"; On September 8, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized at the National Commendation Conference on Fighting COVID-19 Epidemic that "we should firmly grasp the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand and protect and stimulate the vitality of market players"; The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee put forward that "we should adhere to the strategic base of expanding domestic demand, accelerate the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening the structural reform on the supply side, and lead and create new demand with innovation-driven and high-quality supply" … …

Why is expanding domestic demand frequently mentioned?

On April 10th, 2020, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made a profound analysis at the seventh meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee: "After the reform and opening up, especially after China’s accession to the WTO, China joined the international cycle and formed a market and resources (such as mineral resources) ‘ Two heads are out ’ , forming ‘ World factory ’ Our development model has played an important role in seizing the opportunity of economic globalization, rapidly enhancing economic strength and improving people’s lives. In recent years, economic globalization has encountered headwinds, and this epidemic may aggravate the trend of anti-globalization. The domestic tendency has increased significantly, and the external environment facing China’s development may undergo major changes. "

In this case, it is not only necessary to deal with external uncertainty, but also an inevitable choice for China at the present stage of development to put its development foothold at home, actively expand domestic demand and rely more on the domestic market to achieve economic development.

In fact, since the international financial crisis in 2008, China’s economy has been shifting to the domestic macro-cycle. The ratio of current account surplus to GDP has dropped from 9.9% in 2007 to less than 1% now, and the contribution rate of domestic demand to economic growth has exceeded 100% in seven years.

Forming a strong domestic market is an important support for building a new development pattern. The Central Economic Work Conference specifically mentioned "demand-side management" in the requirements of building a new development pattern: it is necessary to firmly grasp the main line of supply-side structural reform, pay attention to demand-side management, get through the blocking points, fill the shortcomings, and connect all links of production, distribution, circulation and consumption, so as to form a higher level dynamic balance of demand pulling supply and supply creating demand, and improve the overall efficiency of the national economic system.

It can be seen that the core of the new development pattern is the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure on the supply side and the expansion of domestic demand on the demand side, so as to improve the matching degree between supply and demand and promote the smooth circulation.

The advantage of a big country’s economy is that it is internally recyclable. China has a population of 1.4 billion, and its per capita GDP has exceeded $10,000, making it the largest and most potential consumer market in the world. The optimization and upgrading of residents’ consumption, combined with modern technology and production methods, contains huge room for growth.

Then, how to expand domestic demand and form a higher level dynamic balance of demand pulling supply and supply creating demand?

The meeting also gave the "answer" — — Effective institutional arrangements must be made in reasonably guiding consumption, savings and investment.

Some experts have analyzed that this shows that the central government has focused on institutional issues to strengthen demand-side management. Instead of simply stimulating consumption and leading consumption, we should start with deep-seated contradictions such as income distribution and social security, and use reform methods to clear difficulties and block points.

China has turned to the stage of high-quality development, and is in the key period of changing the development mode, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the growth momentum. To build a new development pattern, we should organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening the structural reform on the supply side, and lead and create new demand with innovation-driven and high-quality supply. Promote consumption innovation, improve consumption quality through reform, and stimulate potential economic vitality.

"The most fundamental thing to expand consumption is to promote employment, improve social security, optimize the income distribution structure, expand middle-income groups, and solidly promote common prosperity." "We should combine expanding consumption with improving people’s quality of life." "It is necessary to reasonably increase public consumption and improve the efficiency of public service expenditures such as education, medical care, old-age care and child care." … … A series of specific arrangements make people feel not only the strength of the control measures, but also the "temperature" of the control measures.

(Central Radio and Television General Station CCTV Network)

Today’s "Good Morning World" includes: "General Meeting", each saying his own words, Biden and Ukrainian President talking on the phone; New Zealand has issued a smoke-free action plan, and groups aged 14 and below will be "banned for life"; A large number of Nigerian COVID-19 vaccines have expired, and most of them are stocks donated by Europe near the shelf life; The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched with the goal of studying black holes.　

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Global focus

The "general meeting" each said his own words, and Biden spoke on the phone with Ukrainian President.

On December 7, 2021, local time, in Washington, D.C., Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Biden held a two-hour online closed-door video conference.

During the two-hour conversation, Putin "strictly followed the one-on-one mode" and kept his translator in another separate room all the time. At the other end of the video, US President Biden held a dialogue accompanied by the whole team. On December 9, 2021, the Kremlin said that the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Biden were frank and pragmatic. In the statement of Kegong, Biden emphasized that "the threatening nature of Russia’s deployment of troops near the Ukrainian border shows that once the situation escalates further, the United States and its allies will take sanctions." In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia should not be blamed because it was NATO that made a dangerous attempt to use Ukrainian territory.

On December 9, 2021, local time, Ukrainian President Zelensky made a phone call with US President Biden to follow up the security meeting between Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin: It is unacceptable for NATO to expand eastward by absorbing Ukraine.

On December 8, 2021, in Sochi, Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a press conference.

Putin said that NATO pursues an unfriendly policy toward Russia and even declares Russia as its opponent. Russia cannot accept NATO’s eastward expansion by absorbing Ukraine, and Russia has the right to safeguard its national security.

Russian Chief of Staff: Preparing to invade Ukraine is false news and will put out provocative actions.

Valery gerasimov, Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (data map).

Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, told foreign military attaché s at a news conference on Thursday (December 9, 2021) that the news that Russia was preparing to "invade" Ukraine was false-domestic military operations did not need to be notified.

A quick tour of the world

Former US President Trump will be summoned because his company is suspected of fraud.

Former US President Trump (data map).

On December 10th, 2021, according to a report quoted by people familiar with the matter on December 9th, local time in Washington post, Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, will summon former US President Trump on January 7th next year, asking him to testify against the alleged fraud of Trump Group.

New Zealand has issued a smoke-free action plan, which will ban smoking for life for people aged 14 and below.

On December 9, 2021, in Wellington, New Zealand, Ayesha Verrall, Deputy Minister of Health of New Zealand, sat in Wellington’s office.

The New Zealand government released the Smoke-Free Action Plan for 2025 on December 9, local time. The plan proposes that people aged 14 and under living in New Zealand will be banned from buying tobacco for life when the relevant anti-smoking bill comes into effect. This means that all New Zealanders born after 2009 cannot legally buy tobacco products even when they are adults. The New Zealand government plans to enact a bill supporting the reform of smoking ban before June 2022, and plans to make the bill come into effect in 2023.

The body of Indian chief of defense staff was transported to New Delhi, and Prime Minister Modi mourned.

On December 9, 2021, in New Delhi, India, the remains of 13 people, including Indian Defense Chief of Staff Biping Lava, were transported to the airport, and Prime Minister Modi and the families of the victims mourned. It is reported that on December 8, 13 people, including Indian Defense Chief of Staff Rawat, were killed in the crash.

On December 9, 2021, local time, in Tamil Nadu, India, a funeral was held for the victims of the plane crash.

A large number of Nigerian COVID-19 vaccines have expired, and most of them are stocks donated by Europe near the shelf life.

On November 19th, 2021, local time in Abuja, Nigeria, a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination was carried out.

On December 9th, 2021, on the 8th local time, some media reported that one million doses of unused COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria had expired in November. On the same day, the Nigerian Ministry of Health confirmed that there was indeed an expired vaccine, and said that most of these vaccines were donated by some European countries and were about to expire when they arrived in Nigeria.

Paris Disneyland employees held a strike demonstration.

On December 9, 2021, local time, employees of Disneyland Paris demonstrated in front of the Disney theme park in Greater Paris, France. Due to dissatisfaction with salary and shift system, some employees of Disneyland Paris, France protested outside the park, demanding better working conditions.

The death toll from the eruption of Mount Semeru in Indonesia rose to 40.

On December 9, 2021, a man stood outside the damaged house in Lumajiang, East Java, Indonesia.

The latest report from the Disaster Relief Agency in Lumajiang, Indonesia shows that the death toll caused by the eruption of Semeru volcano in East Java, Indonesia has risen to 40, and another 105 people have been injured.

The chimney of Long garnett coal power station in England was demolished, which was once the largest coal power station in Europe.

On December 9, 2021, local time, the chimney of Long garnett Coal Power Station was demolished in Scotland, England. The Long garnett Power Station, completed in 2016, was once the largest coal-fired power station in Europe.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched with the goal of studying black holes.

On December 9, 2021, local time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the launch site 39A of Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, USA. This is a space mission to study black holes.

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