Company News - GuoDun Quantum's chairman, Lv Pin, unexpectedly passed away [7] - CICC announced a cash dividend of 434 million yuan for the first half of 2025, with the record date set for December 26 [8] - Haitian Flavoring announced that its cash dividend ratio will not be less than 80% annually for the next three years (2025-2027) [9] - Sichuan Road and Bridge announced that China Post Insurance has increased its stake to 5% [10] - Zhongwei Company announced plans to acquire Hangzhou Zhonggui's equity, leading to a stock suspension [11] - WuXi AppTec reported that 18 shareholders, including the third, fourth, and sixth largest, collectively reduced their holdings by 29.5 million shares between November 26 and December 17 [11] - Lida Xin announced that shareholder Li Chunhua reduced his stake by 1.56% between December 10 and December 17 [12] - Visionox plans to sign an investment cooperation agreement to advance the Hefei 8.6-generation AMOLED production line project, with a second-phase capital of 9.443 billion yuan [12] - Western Mining announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Geermu West Mining Resources, has obtained a mining license, with gold reserves of 2.86 tons [13] - Yidong Electronics announced that a related party reduced its holdings by 2.3463 million shares between December 10 and December 17 [14] - Shandong Highway plans to provision for a long-term equity investment impairment of approximately 690 million yuan in Dongxing Securities [15] - GuoAo Technology's former actual controller, Chen Chongjun, was sentenced to six years in prison for manipulating the securities market, with a fine of 4 million yuan [16] Industry News - The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is consulting market opinions on optimizing the framework for trading units, with potential adjustments affecting about 25% of issuers [5] - The Ministry of Commerce responded to the latest developments in export controls on rare earth-related items, indicating that some Chinese exporters have met the basic requirements for applying for general licenses [5] - The National Digital Exchange System Engineering Technology Research Center, in collaboration with China Mobile and China Unicom, has achieved breakthroughs in resource scheduling efficiency and reliability through a "multi-modal on-the-fly computing" model [5] - The scale of China's biomanufacturing industry has continued to grow, reaching a total scale of 1.1 trillion yuan, with biopharmaceutical product output accounting for over 70% of the global total [5] - Platinum has become a highly sought-after asset, with the price of pure platinum reaching 815 yuan per gram, and futures contracts seeing a significant increase of 5.32% on December 18 [6]