Category: Flash News

On February 15th, the “Several Measures to Accelerate the Construction of a Global Influential Artificial Intelligence Industry Highland in Zhongguancun Science City” was officially released on February 14th at the 2025 Haidian District Economic and Social High Quality Development Conference. The Measures plan to allocate over 1 billion yuan annually in funding support for research and development, computing power subsidies, data rewards, scenario support, etc., to build a globally influential innovation source and industrial highland, and create a world-class artificial intelligence industry cluster.

On February 15th, the release of three Israeli detainees is expected to take place around 9:00 am local time in Khan Younis. It is reported that the location is near the destroyed house of former Hamas leader Sinwar, who was killed by the Israeli army. Abu Ubaida, spokesperson for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affiliated military organization Kassan Brigade, stated on the 14th that according to the Gaza ceasefire agreement, three detainees will be released on the 15th. The Palestinian prisoner affairs department stated that as part of the sixth batch of detainees exchange program, Israel will release 369 Palestinian detainees on the 15th, including 36 who will be sentenced to life imprisonment.

On February 15th, at the 2025 Haidian District Economic and Social High Quality Development Conference held on February 14th, the Zhongguancun Science City Science and Technology Growth Phase III Fund was released, with a scale of 10 billion yuan, and the total scale of the Science and Technology Growth Fund increased to 20 billion yuan. The third phase fund will adhere to investing early, small, long-term, and hard technology, and moderately expand to the growth and mid to late stages, closely focusing on the cultivation of the “1+X+1” modern industrial system, and achieving full coverage of the fund’s Haidian industrial track.

On February 15th, the “Guidelines for Applying for Integrated Circuit Chip Subsidies in Zhongguancun Science City” were officially released at the 2025 Haidian District Economic and Social High Quality Development Conference on February 14th. It is aimed at enterprises engaged in integrated circuit design business in Haidian District, and supports integrated circuit design enterprises to carry out multi project wafer (MPW) or engineering product first round chip (full mask), with a maximum subsidy of 15 million yuan for a single enterprise. In terms of supporting integrated circuit design enterprises to carry out the first round of wafer fabrication (full mask) of engineering products, domestic enterprises that carry out advanced process (14nm and below) engineering product first round wafer fabrication (full mask) will be rewarded with no more than 30% of the product wafer fabrication cost, with a maximum limit of 8 million yuan per enterprise; For enterprises that carry out the first round of film production (full mask) of mature process (above 14nm) engineering products within the country, a reward of no more than 20% of the product film production cost will be given, with a maximum limit of 5 million yuan per enterprise; For enterprises that carry out the first round of wafer fabrication (full mask) of advanced process (14nm and below) engineering products overseas, a reward of no more than 15% of the product wafer fabrication cost will be given, with a maximum limit of 5 million yuan per enterprise.

On February 15th, the unveiling ceremony of the National Medical Security Administration’s Big Data Center was held at the 2025 Haidian District Economic and Social High Quality Development Conference. After landing, it will support the research and application of medical insurance big data in the field of medicine and health, enhance the ability of medical insurance data to empower medical insurance reform, management, and services, support Haidian District to optimize medical services, medical insurance supervision, etc., and promote the high-quality development of the medical and health industry with “data”.

On February 15th, several city commercial banks including Hangzhou Bank, Nanjing Bank, and Jiangsu Bank have successively lowered their US dollar deposit interest rates. After the reduction, the interest rates have generally dropped from the previous “4” to “2” and “3”. On February 12th, a staff member of Nanjing Bank told reporters that Nanjing Bank will adjust the US dollar deposit interest rate from February 8th, with 3-month and 1-year terms reduced to 2.1% and 2.5% respectively, which is a “halving” of the previous interest rate. Lou Feipeng, a researcher at China Postal Savings Bank, told reporters that the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates in September last year, lowering the federal funds target rate by 1 percentage point three times. The market has high expectations for the Fed’s subsequent interest rate cuts. Faced with the Fed’s interest rate cuts, banks have lowered their US dollar deposit rates to stabilize their debt costs. (Beike Finance)

On February 15th, the “Action Plan 8.0 for Optimizing the Business Environment in Xuhui District” and a new round of industrial policy system were successively released on February 14th. In 2024, the gross regional product of Xuhui District will reach 393.12 billion yuan, ranking first in the central urban area of Shanghai center. It will focus on key areas such as cross-border investment facilitation, digital governance standardization, and internationalization of intellectual property protection, and launch 34 task measures in the “Ten Actions”. In addition, by 2025, Xuhui District will invest another 5 billion yuan in special funds for attracting and doing business, closely following the “perception” of enterprises. In 2025, we will take artificial intelligence as the leading force to vigorously promote the development of key industries such as digital economy, life and health, cultural creativity, modern commerce and trade, science and technology innovation finance, professional services, and high-end manufacturing. We will actively cultivate X new industries such as low altitude economy, blockchain, synthetic biology, and embodied intelligence, seize the “nuclear explosion point” of industries, and accelerate the growth of new quality productivity.

On February 15th, according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, the Director of the Policy Office of the North Korean Ministry of National Defense issued a statement saying that enhancing North Korea’s self-defense forces is an inevitable requirement for containing enemy provocations and ensuring national security. The conversation said that the United States is vigorously pursuing risky military expansion and radical modernization of nuclear forces, which poses a serious threat to the security environment of the Korean Peninsula region and the world. However, the US has recently claimed that North Korea has the capability to use nuclear weapons to strike the entire North American region, accusing North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile force of posing a threat to US domestic security and anti missile systems, which is a “black and white robber’s sophistry”. The conversation said that the US hyped up and exaggerated the non-existent “threat” from North Korea, using it as an excuse to justify its military ambitions. North Korea expresses serious concern over the confrontational behavior of the United States. If the United States does have concerns about domestic security, it should completely abandon military threats and hostile policies towards independent sovereign countries. The conversation stated that North Korea’s strategic armed forces are the defense forces that ensure national security and regional strategic balance. Recently, the public entry of US nuclear submarines into the Korean Peninsula and the planned joint military exercises between the US and South Korea have provided ample reasons for North Korea to strengthen its defense capabilities. Continuously enhancing and improving self-defense forces, containing security threats, and ensuring national security and regional strategic balance are the self-defense rights of sovereign states. Xinhua News Agency

On February 15th, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova stated at a press conference that Russian officials will not attend the current Munich Security Conference because Russia has not been invited. Previously, US President Trump stated that senior representatives from Russia, Ukraine, and the United States would meet during the Munich Security Conference. (CCTV News)

On February 15th, silicon-based mobility partnered with Beijing Ascend Artificial Intelligence Computing Center to support the private cluster deployment of hundreds of mainstream models based on Ascend’s computing power, including DeepSeeker R1&V3 series models, Qwen, FLUX. 1, etc., helping enterprise customers achieve intelligent upgrades. Specifically, based on the 16 card Ascend Atlas 800I A2, silicon-based mobility provides a single exclusive instance of DeepSeek-R1&V3 with full health, supporting over 100 concurrent instances; Based on the Ascend Atlas 800I A2, silicon-based flow supports adaptation to the 70B, 32B, and 14B distillation versions of DeepSeeker R1; Based on the Ascend Atlas 300I Duo, silicon-based flow supports adaptation to the 14B, 8B, and 7B distillation versions of DeepSeeker R1; Based on the Ascend Atlas 300V, silicon-based flow supports 1.5B adaptation of DeepSeek R1.