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Survey: More than 40% of analysts expect the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates this month, but most think that January next year is the best time. According to the latest survey, observers of the Bank of Japan predict that January is the most likely time to raise interest rates next time, but more than 40% of the respondents still expect to take action next week. According to the survey, about 52% of the 52 economists surveyed expect the Bank of Japan to raise the policy interest rate from 0.25% in January, compared with 32% in the last survey. About 44% of the respondents expect the central bank to take action at the end of the two-day meeting on December 19, down from 53% in the last survey. The survey results show that observers believe that the Bank of Japan's policy meeting this month is likely to move or not to move to a large extent. About 88% of the respondents said that the earliest possible time to raise interest rates in their risk scenarios is next week. Another equally high data shows that Japan's economic and price environment will justify raising interest rates this month.Supreme Law: If the heir abandons the decedent, he shall lose the right of inheritance. On December 12th, the Supreme People's Court released the typical cases of inheritance disputes (the second batch). In case 4, Gao Moujia and Gao Xiaomou are related to each other, and Gao Xiaomou is an only child. In 1992, Gao Xiaomou (at the age of 20) left home after a dispute with his parents, and he never cared about his parents. Mother didn't take care of her when she was ill, and she didn't go to her funeral when she died. When Gao Moujia was seriously ill, he needed transportation, nursing and care for major surgery, but Gao Xiaomou did not appear. After Gao Moujia died, Gao Xiaomou ignored the burial of his ashes, but as the only legal heir, he received some bank deposit certificates under Gao Moujia's name. According to the Supreme Law, the people's court ruled that his behavior constituted abandonment according to law and sentenced him to lose the right of inheritance, which demonstrated the positive guidance of the law to social values, was conducive to carrying forward the traditional virtues of filial piety and respect for the elderly of the Chinese nation, and improved the mechanism for giving play to the role of family education and family style construction in grassroots governance.The personal pension system has been extended to the whole country. On December 12th, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System. Since December 15th, the personal pension system has been extended to the whole country from 36 pilot cities (regions). (Xinhua News Agency)

Malaysia established the National Office of Artificial Intelligence Policies and Regulations.Fourteen people have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the central part of the Gaza Strip. On the 12th local time, it was learned from the Palestinian side that the Israeli army bombed a house west of Nuseilet refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, killing 14 people and injuring many others. (CCTV News)The 10th anniversary of the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, today (12th) is the 10th anniversary of the middle route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Up to now, the project has transferred more than 10.6 billion cubic meters of water to Beijing. In the past decade, Beijing has greatly reduced the amount of groundwater exploitation and shut down more than 1,300 self-prepared wells. The groundwater level in the plain area of Beijing has risen for nine consecutive years. The groundwater depth has risen from 25.75 meters in 2015 to 12.61 meters today, and the groundwater reserves have increased by 7 billion cubic meters compared with 2015. There are 81 springs in Beijing that have re-flooded. Since 2019, the five major rivers in Beijing, Yongding River, Chaobai River, North Canal, Juma River and Chanhe River, have all been "flowing rivers" after a lapse of 26 years, and have been flowing into the sea for four consecutive years. (CCTV News)

Xinwei launched the Intel Eagle Stream platform 4U8 card server P5500G5H. Recently, Xinwei launched the Intel Eagle Stream platform 4U8 card server P5500G5H, which has the characteristics of leading architecture, super computing power and flexible expansion, and provides strong computing support for different AI applications. Xinwei P5500G5H server can support running hundreds of billions of parameter models. In terms of framework and algorithm, it supports mainstream AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, caffe, mxnet and popular development tools such as DeepSpeed.The Hang Seng Index rose more than 1%, the Hang Seng Technology Index rose 1.47%, and the technology stocks strengthened.Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments: Since December 15th, the personal pension system has been pushed from 36 pilot cities (regions) to the whole country, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other five departments have issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System. Since December 15th, the personal pension system has been extended from 36 pilot cities (regions) to the whole country. The so-called personal pension is a supplementary old-age insurance system with voluntary participation, market-oriented operation and national policy support. Individuals voluntarily deposit a sum of money in a specific account, which does not exceed 12,000 yuan per year. Different from ordinary bank wealth management, funds and commercial insurance, individual pensions can enjoy the preferential policy of deferred taxation. In order to promote the preservation and appreciation of individual pensions, the circular requires optimizing product supply, and on the basis of existing financial products such as wealth management products, savings deposits, commercial pension insurance and Public Offering of Fund, specific pension savings and index funds will be included in the catalogue of individual pension products. (Xinhua News Agency)