Morning Report

Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Lunar Calendar: March 5, Good morning!
1. The Chinese Air Force's Y-20B aircraft made its first trip to South Korea to receive the remains of the 13th batch of volunteer soldiers back home.
2. The National Medical Products Administration, Ministry of Public Security, and the National Narcotics Control Commission jointly issued a notice: further strengthening the full-chain regulation of addictive drugs such as pregabalin oral monotherapy preparations and Yumei preparations, resolutely curbing the spread of drug abuse.
3. In March, the Shanghai Gold Exchange's gold trading volume was 5,675.4 tons, down 6.3% year-on-year; during the same period, the Shanghai Futures Exchange's gold trading volume was 19k tons, up 8.8% year-on-year.
4. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced a new regulatory framework, allowing tokenized products to be traded in the secondary market.
5. Nearly 70 models of vehicles across the industry collectively reduced prices, with new energy vehicles averaging a 38k yuan discount, and fuel vehicles' discounts reaching 14.3%; China's first domestically developed advanced process multi-domain integrated chip "Red Flag No. 1" was successfully produced.
6. Liaoning Province allocated 410 million yuan to support elderly disabled individuals with moderate or higher levels of disability in elderly care services.
7. Jinan introduced 19 new policies for the real estate market, with the maximum housing provident fund loan reaching 1.3 million yuan, exploring the optimization and improvement of the "sell old and buy new" mechanism; Qingdao's housing provident fund allows households to borrow up to 2.4 million yuan, supporting withdrawals for property fees, deed tax, and other payments.
8. Shanghai police dismantled a cross-provincial scam gang that specialized in luring victims with online part-time jobs and demanding high training fees, arresting over 100 suspects including Li Mou, with case amounts exceeding 25 million yuan. Currently, 12 main suspects have been approved for arrest by the procuratorate.
9. A 4.5-magnitude earthquake occurred in Zizhong County, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, with a depth of 7 kilometers.
10. Japan experienced a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, and a tsunami warning has been issued; similar-scale earthquakes may occur in the coming week.
11. Spain's Prime Minister: Will formally propose that the European Union terminate the association agreement with Israel.
12. Over 30k Japanese citizens gathered in front of the National Diet to protest against the Takashi government’s destruction of the peace constitution.