A number of data to understand ＂China’s self-confidence＂ The steady and positive trend of the economy has been continuously consolidated

CCTV News:According to the data released by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on the 7th, by the end of April 2024, the scale of China’s foreign exchange reserves was US$ 3,200.8 billion, down by US$ 44.8 billion or 1.38% from the end of March.

The relevant person in charge said that in April 2024, the US dollar index rose and the global financial asset prices generally fell. The scale of foreign exchange reserves decreased in the month due to the combined effects of exchange rate conversion and asset price changes.

In April, the turnover of the national futures market increased by 28.49% year on year.

China Futures Association released data on May 7th. In April, the turnover of the national futures market was 56.74 trillion yuan, up 28.49% year-on-year. Among them, silver, soda ash, soybean meal, industrial silicon and other futures transactions are active.

In April, the prosperity index of China logistics industry was 52.4%.

China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing announced on May 7th that in April, the prosperity index of China’s logistics industry was 52.4%, up 0.9 percentage points from the previous month. In April, the upstream and downstream of the supply chain maintained a trend of linkage recovery, the logistics demand for equipment manufacturing and transportation equipment manufacturing was released in an orderly manner, and the logistics demand for daily fast-moving consumer goods and durable consumer goods such as furniture and household appliances increased rapidly.

In addition, investment in the logistics field has accelerated, and the index of fixed assets investment completion rebounded to the expansion range of more than 50% in April. The index of warehousing, multimodal transport and loading and unloading industries rose by more than 2 percentage points.

China’s advertising industry grew strongly in the first quarter.

Advertising is a "barometer" of economic development, and the development of advertising industry largely reflects the vitality of consumer market and enterprise investment confidence. The General Administration of Market Supervision announced on May 7 that a statistical survey of 857 head institutions and enterprises above designated size engaged in advertising business showed that the advertising industry grew strongly in the first quarter.

According to the data released by the General Administration of Market Supervision, in the first quarter, 857 head enterprises and institutions realized a total advertising business income of 274.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.6%.

In the first quarter, the Internet advertising revenue of 857 head enterprises and institutions was 137.52 billion yuan, up 20.6% year-on-year, accounting for 77.0% of the total advertising revenue. Thanks to the development of information technology, the Internet plays a leading role in all kinds of advertising media and is the main channel for the promotion of goods and services. Traditional media accelerated the digital transformation. The advertising business income of institutions represented by radio and television stations and newspapers was 7.85 billion yuan, up by 3.1% year-on-year, but its Internet advertising business increased by 135.4% year-on-year.

It is understood that 857 head enterprises and institutions are mainly platform enterprises, and the data shows that their advertising business income in 2023 accounted for 91.8% of the total number of institutions and enterprises above designated size in China. Among them, the advertising business income of head platform enterprises accounts for more than 50% of its operating income. The advertising business of platform enterprises not only drives the majority of small and medium-sized micro-advertising enterprises to build industrial chains, but also provides financial guarantee for them to carry out technological innovations such as artificial intelligence, new energy and cloud computing.

In 2024, the national cultural relics protection fund budget was 6.383 billion yuan.

A few days ago, the central government issued a national cultural relics protection fund budget of 6.383 billion yuan in 2024, which was used for the expenses of cultural relics maintenance and protection, cultural relics security, archaeology and movable cultural relics protection. Among them, the general project budget is 5.372 billion yuan, giving priority to revolutionary cultural relics, cave temple cultural relics, archaeology, and cultural relics protection related to the construction of national cultural parks.

The food safety situation in the first quarter was generally stable.

The reporter learned from the General Administration of Market Supervision on May 7 that in the first quarter of 2024, the national market supervision department completed nearly 770,000 batches of food safety supervision and sampling, and conducted inspection according to relevant national food safety standards. The unqualified rate of supervision and sampling was 2.36%, up 0.18 percentage points from the same period in 2023.

From the sampling food varieties, the unqualified rates of food processed with high consumption, such as edible oil, grease and its products, meat products, egg products and dairy products, were 0.36%, 0.37%, 0.69%, 0.07% and 0.05% respectively, which were lower than the overall unqualified rate. Compared with the same period of last year, the unqualified rate of 14 categories of food such as catering food and frozen drinks decreased, but the unqualified rate of 18 categories of food such as special catering food and condiments increased.

From the categories of unqualified items detected, some unqualified items accounted for 46.45% of the total unqualified samples, including pesticide residues exceeding the standard, 16.29% of food additives exceeding the limit, 11.75% of microbial pollution, 8.78% of organic pollution, 6.35% of veterinary drug residues exceeding the standard, 5.53% of quality indicators failing to meet the standard, and 3.50% of heavy metal pollution.

In view of the unqualified samples found in the supervision and sampling inspection, the market supervision department has announced the results of the supervision and sampling inspection to the public, and urged the relevant production and operation enterprises to take off the shelves and recall the unqualified batches of products in time, strictly control the food safety risks, and conduct verification and disposal according to relevant regulations.