Morning Report

Friday, April 17, 2026, Lunar Calendar March 1, Morning!

1. National Bureau of Statistics: GDP in the first quarter was 33.4193 trillion yuan, up 5.0% year-on-year, accelerating by 0.5 percentage points compared to the previous quarter; the per capita disposable income of residents nationwide in the first quarter was 12,782 yuan.

2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Reminder: Chinese citizens traveling to the U.S. should be aware of entry safety risks and avoid entering through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

3. State Administration for Market Regulation: Will carry out in-depth special actions to uphold bottom-line standards for CCC certification, crack down on false CCC certification marks, dynamically adjust the CCC certification catalog, and prevent low-price, low-quality "involution-style" competition.

4. Beijing's 2026 point-based residence permit application officially launched on April 16, with a 30-day application period, a scale of 6,000 people, and the policy of same points, same approval.

5. Nanjing, Jiangsu: Expanding the scope of cross-region housing provident fund loans to cover all of Anhui Province.

6. The ChiNext Index surged over 3%, reaching an 11-year high, with a total trading volume of 2.34 trillion yuan across the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets.

7. After 35 years, the classic Hong Kong film "The Swordsman" will have its first mainland screening on May 3.

8. The country's first cross-border e-commerce B2B direct export of live pets has cleared customs in Shenyang.

9. In the first quarter, China-Europe freight trains operated 5,460 trains, transporting 546k TEUs, with year-on-year increases of 29% and 22%, respectively.

10. Iran states it will fully promote post-war reconstruction, claiming the U.S. has become Israel's "seventh administrative district"; Iran announces that schools at all levels nationwide will switch to online teaching.

11. The U.S. has launched an operation codenamed "Economic Fury" against Iran, applying maximum economic pressure; the U.S. military states it has expanded the scope of sanctions on Iranian shipping materials, including weapons, ammunition, crude oil, refined oil, steel, and aluminum.

12. France unanimously passed a bill to return cultural relics, simplifying the process of returning artifacts looted during the colonial period.