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South Korea's Kospi index fell as much as 1.1% in early trading on Wednesday after rising for 11 consecutive trading days, hindering the upward momentum of chip stocks. The Kospi is one of the best-performing stock indices in the world this year, closing at a record high on Tuesday and setting a record for its longest winning streak in six years. In early trading on Wednesday, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were the biggest drags on the Kospi index; SK Hynix fell as much as 3.2% after rising for 11 consecutive days. Seo Sang-Young, a strategist at Mirae Asset Securities, said that US President Trump's statement overnight that imported chips and drugs may face higher tariffs than automobiles is expected to hit South Korean memory chip manufacturers.

[A total of 850.5 billion yuan has been invested in the country to support the development of poverty-stricken areas.] Yesterday, at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the theme of "High-Quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan," the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, my country has made positive progress in consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation, firmly maintaining the bottom line of preventing large-scale relapse into poverty. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun stated that the central government has specifically allocated subsidies for the connection and promotion of rural revitalization. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, a total of 850.5 billion yuan has been invested, representing real financial support. (CCTV)

[New Scientific Breakthrough: Chinese Scientists Solve the Century-Old Puzzle of Plant Cell Totipotency] On September 16th, Beijing time, the internationally renowned academic journal Cell published online the research findings of Chinese scientists, fully revealing the entire process of how a single plant cell develops into a complete plant. Using cutting-edge technologies such as single-cell sequencing and in vivo imaging, the research team of Professors Zhang Xiansheng and Su Yinghua from Shandong Agricultural University captured the entire division process of a single plant cell for the first time, directly confirming the "single-cell origin" of plant cell totipotency and resolving a long-standing question in the academic community.

[2025 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Symposium Held in Kunming] On September 15, the 2025 National Cybersecurity Publicity Week Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs Symposium was held at the Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center in Kunming. The meeting was chaired by Yang Jianwen, Deputy Director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Deputy Director of the National Cyberspace Administration of China. Yang Jianwen pointed out that at present, with the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, the demand for cybersecurity is accelerating the transformation from "compliance-driven" to "risk-driven". This is not only the core direction of industrial development, but also an inevitable choice for coping with complex network environments. It requires "three-party linkage and joint efforts." The competent industry departments should provide "real" support for industrial transformation, provide a better policy environment for cybersecurity companies, promote high-quality development of the industry, and encourage companies to participate in standard setting. Leading companies need to shoulder the responsibility of tackling "bottleneck" technologies, focus on key areas such as chips, and jointly build innovation alliances with universities and research institutes to accelerate the development of independent and controllable security chips to break the monopoly, and help small and medium-sized enterprises improve their security capabilities through "mentoring, helping and guiding". (Cyberspace Administration of China)

Singapore's exports continued to decline in August. Singapore's non-oil domestic exports fell for the second consecutive month in August, indicating that the impact of frontloading as US tariffs took effect continued to wane. Enterprise Singapore said Wednesday that the trade-reliant economy's non-oil domestic exports fell 11.3% from a year earlier. This compares to a revised 4.7% contraction in July, compared with a 1.1% growth forecast by a Wall Street Journal survey of nine economists. The decline in exports suggests that the boost to exports earlier this year from frontloading shipments to beat US President Trump's tariff deadlines has faded. Electronics exports, a key driver of Singapore's economic growth, fell 6.5% year-on-year in August, after a revised 2.7% increase in July. Non-electronics exports fell 13% year-on-year last month, after a revised 6.7% contraction in July. Non-oil domestic exports to the United States, China, and Indonesia contracted in August, while they rose to the EU-27 and South Korea. The government agency said exports of special machinery, food preparations and petrochemicals shrank by 29.1%, 51.4% and 23.2% respectively, with the biggest impact on the decline in non-electronics non-oil domestic exports. Enterprise Singapore said it is actively monitoring the evolving tariff situation and will adjust its 2025 non-oil domestic export forecasts, if necessary, to reflect changing market conditions.