CCTV News:China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing released the prosperity index of China logistics industry in March on April 2nd. The data shows that with the upstream and downstream activities of the supply chain becoming more active, the recovery of logistics demand accelerated in March, and the prosperity index rebounded significantly, returning to the expansion range.
In March, the prosperity index of China’s logistics industry was 51.5%, up 4.4 percentage points from last month, and returned to the expansion zone. From the perspective of sub-indices, the main sub-indices rose in an all-round way, with the total business index, new order index and inventory turnover index rebounding obviously.
In terms of industries, the total business index of major industries has rebounded from the previous month. In the field of household consumption and commercial logistics, the super-retail demand of physical merchants has achieved a recovery growth, which has accelerated the circulation of commerce and trade, and the business volume of LCL transportation of FMCG and e-commerce express delivery has increased significantly. In March, the total business index of road transport industry and postal express industry rebounded by 4.7 and 3.7 percentage points respectively.
After the Spring Festival, the transportation volume of railway bulk materials increased. In March, the railway transportation business volume index was 53.5%, up 1.8 percentage points from the previous month. Enterprise research shows that in March, the average daily loading volume of railway freight was 1-mdash; In February, the cumulative daily average loading capacity increased by more than 5%.
Judging from the employment situation, in March, the employee index rebounded by 2.7 percentage points from the previous month, which was a significant improvement. From the perspective of industry, the employee index of transportation industry and postal express delivery industry is in the expansion range. Some enterprises reported that since the start of construction after the holiday, the difficulty of recruiting workers has decreased compared with the same period of last year, but the labor cost has also increased to some extent.
From the perspective of corporate expectations, in March, the expected index of corporate business activities was 55.3%, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous month, and the overall enterprise remained optimistic about the future development.
State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China issued a number of tax measures for the convenience of the people.
On April 2nd, State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China released a number of tax measures for the convenience of the people, including the comprehensive promotion of the online unified and standardized electronic taxation bureau.
It is understood that in 2024, the "Convenient Tax Spring Breeze Action" focused on high-frequency issues in tax payment and outstanding problems reflected by taxpayers. We will introduce measures such as comprehensively promoting the online unified and standardized electronic tax bureau, optimizing the electronic tax bureau of natural persons, helping newly established business entities to improve their credit rating as soon as possible, and improving the annual starting score of A-level taxpayers with tax credit, so as to consolidate the supply base of tax and fee services.
In terms of improving the response to tax service demands, efforts were made to open up tax payment blocking points, introduce measures such as expanding the scope of preferential tax refund for tax settlement, and compiling guidelines for tax preferential policies to support the development of manufacturing industry, so as to improve the efficiency of tax-related and fee-related demands.
At the same time, through "promoting data sharing" and "strengthening the application of digital technology", we will promote the optimization of tax payment process, data simplification and cost reduction, introduce measures such as improving the pre-filling function of special additional deduction information for serious illness medical care, optimizing the "one-stop" declaration function of personal pension pre-tax deduction, and accelerating the electronic reform of railway and civil aviation invoices.
In addition, tax authorities at all levels will further innovate and upgrade integrated service scenarios such as cross-domain service, cross-border service, batch service and one-window service, and promote the upgrading of tax and fee services.
The Ministry of Finance released the ranking of the openness of local budgets and final accounts in 2022.
In order to continuously promote the publicity of local budgets and final accounts, from September to November, 2023, the Ministry of Finance organized a special inspection on the publicity of budgets and final accounts of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities with separate plans in 2022, focusing on the publicity of budgets and final accounts of local governments and departments in 2022 and comprehensively scoring all localities, forming a ranking of the openness of local budgets and final accounts in 2022. In this ranking, Guangdong, Henan, Hunan, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong, Gansu, Hubei, Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces rank in the top ten. It is understood that this is the seventh time since 2015 that the Ministry of Finance has conducted public inspections of local budgets and final accounts nationwide.
The cumulative turnover of the futures market in the first quarter increased by 2.70% year-on-year.
According to the latest data released by China Futures Association on April 2nd, the cumulative turnover of the national futures market in the first quarter was 124.16 trillion yuan, up 2.70% year-on-year. Among them, energy futures performed brilliantly.
The data shows that the cumulative turnover of lithium carbonate futures in the first quarter of this year was 13.8949 million lots, with a cumulative turnover of 1,523.745 billion yuan. Lithium carbonate is mainly used to produce lithium batteries for automobiles. With the rapid development of China’s new energy automobile industry, China has become the largest producer and consumer of lithium carbonate in the world. In a company producing lithium carbonate in Guangxi, the reporter saw that about 1.5 tons of lithium carbonate products went offline every 10 minutes.
In the interview, the reporter learned that lithium carbonate generally takes three months from the preparation of raw materials to the output of products. China launched lithium carbonate futures in July 2023, and more than 1,500 industrial enterprises have participated in the transaction. In order to reduce the transaction cost of enterprises, the futures exchange also provides a series of targeted preferential measures.
During the Qingming holiday, the average daily customs clearance will reach 1.78 million.
The reporter learned from the National Immigration Bureau that during the Qingming holiday this year, the daily average number of people entering and leaving the country will reach 1.78 million, an increase of 74.5% over the same period last year.
It is estimated that the daily average number of passengers entering and leaving Beijing Capital, Shanghai Pudong, Guangzhou Baiyun, Hangzhou Xiaoshan and Chengdu Tianfu will be 35,000, 84,000, 41,000, 13,000 and 16,000 respectively. The number of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents who are adjacent to the land ports of Hong Kong and Macao and return home to worship their ancestors at the direct ports of Taiwan Province will increase significantly. Among them, Zhuhai Gongbei, Qingmao, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Hengqin Port are expected to reach 337,000, 105,000, 103,000 and 65,000 person-times, and Shenzhen Luohu, Futian, Shenzhen Bay and Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway West Kowloon Station are expected to reach 225,000, 197,000, 133,000 and 106,000 person-times.
Erenhot Highway Port implements 24-hour freight customs clearance.
From April 1st, the cargo passage of Erenhot Highway Port in Inner Mongolia was cleared 24 hours a day for six months, which became the first highway port in China to clear 24-hour cargo from Mongolia.
As a comprehensive hub port opened by China to Mongolia, the reporter learned that the cargo passage of Erenhot Highway Port was tried out for half a month in December last year, which made full preparations for the implementation of this customs clearance policy. The 24-hour customs clearance measures will be implemented from April 1st to September 30th.
In the cargo passage of Erenhot highway port, the imported goods are mainly iron ore and coal, and the exported goods are mainly daily necessities, household appliances, auto parts and other products. In the first three months of this year, Erenhot Highway Port inspected more than 460,000 entry-exit personnel, a year-on-year increase of nearly 2 times; There were 119,000 vehicles (trains) entering and leaving the country, an increase of 2.5 times compared with the same period in 2023.
Xinjiang Hongqi Lafu Port April 1 switch
In addition, the reporter learned from Urumqi Customs that on April 1, Xinjiang Hongqi Lafu Port was opened and closed to welcome inbound and outbound passengers, vehicles and goods. Due to the influence of high altitude and snow and ice weather, China and Pakistan agreed to open and close from April to November every year, and close from December to March the following year.
Hengqin Port Macao Port was handed over to Macao in the third stage.
According to the relevant reply of the State Council, the reserved space of the Macao Light Rail at the third stage of the Macao Port at Hengqin Port was extended to Hengqin Port, which was officially delivered to the Macao SAR Government for use at 0: 00 on April 1, and was under the jurisdiction of the Macao SAR Government. So far, the Australian port area of Hengqin Port and related extension areas have all been handed over to the jurisdiction of the Macao SAR Government.
Aksu, Xinjiang: Video surveillance captured the travel picture of snow leopard.
Two days ago, the police at the border police station in Shenmuyuan, Aksu, Xinjiang, found two snow leopard travel pictures during the video inspection. That night, two snow leopards appeared in the surveillance video. They were strong, with thick tails, and their black ring spots were particularly eye-catching. Sometimes they walked and patrolled, and sometimes they walked and sniffed. According to the analysis of relevant departments, the snow leopard in the video is a male and a female adult snow leopard, which is in the breeding period, and the probability is a couple. It is understood that snow leopard is a national first-class protected animal, which often moves near the snow line and between the snow. In recent years, with the ecological environment in Aksu getting better and better, the images of snow leopards have been recorded many times.
The weather is getting warmer and groups of capra ibex frequently appear in Kunlun Mountain.
As the weather gets warmer, groups of "plateau elves" — — Capra ibex frequents here. In the picture, these capra ibex are plump and strong. They sometimes run quickly in the Shan Ye, and sometimes climb on the steep cliff, prancing and jumping, showing amazing stunts of "flying over rocks and walking over walls". Capra ibex is a national second-class protected wild animal, which is very good at climbing and jumping. It often lives in bare rocks and mountainsides on the plateau at an altitude of 3,500 to 6,000 meters.
Yangtze finless porpoise group "Spring Tour"
Recently, the Yangtze finless porpoise investigation team observed the "spring tour" of the finless porpoise group during its spring field trip in Jingjiang, Jiangsu.
On March 29th, when the research ship was about 500 meters downstream of Jiangyin Bridge, groups of finless porpoises jumped out of the river, including a "expectant mother" finless porpoise. It is understood that the Yangtze finless porpoise is a national first-class protected animal, and the breeding season of the finless porpoise is from March to June every year. The waters where finless porpoises were found this time are near the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River. The local ecological and environmental department said that they would send information reminders to ships that have recently entered this area and guide them to slow down when sailing in this area.