On April 27, the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Polishing Materials Branch of the China Rare Earth Industry Association and the China Rare Earth Polishing Materials Industry Development Forum were successfully held.

The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) continued its streak of rate hikes for more than a year, raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 5-5.25%.

The International Copper Study Group (ICSG) said last Friday that the global copper supply is expected to be in deficit this year due to improving demand in China.

According to the "Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2023" report released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday, global electric vehicle sales exceeded 10 million last year, and the industry trend of continuous growth has not changed, of which China's sales accounted for 60%.

The Ministry of National Defense held a regular press conference on the afternoon of April 27. The spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, answered reporters’ questions and said that China’s policy on the South China Sea Islands and its China has indisputable sovereignty over the adjacent waters and has sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the relevant waters.

At the digital economy sub-forum of the Digital China Construction Summit, Sun Wei, deputy director of the High Technology Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the first is to promote top-level design In line with the implemented policies, speed up the establishment of a "1+N" basic system of data elements.

 Yu Jiadong, deputy minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said at the meeting that since the beginning of this year, the employment situation has risen steadily, and the main employment indicators have gradually stabilized. The month stabilized, and the employment of needy groups was guaranteed accordingly.

Recently, some media reported that individual real estate agencies participated in or assisted consumers in leasing real estate and degrees separately, which aroused social concern and had a great negative impact on the industry.

Recently, a number of key indicators point to a recession in the US economy, and the latest ominous signal comes from the commodity market.

Shaanxi Heimao announced that its subsidiary Xinjiang Heimao signed an Investment Framework Agreement with the Kuqa Municipal People's Government on the construction of the new coal chemical circular economy industry and supporting coal mine mining project in Kuqa Economic and Technological Development Zone.