SUNING issued a notice that Zhang Jindong resigned as chairman of SUNING, vice chairman Sun Weimin and director Meng Xiangsheng resigned from the board of directors together. Prior to the appointment of the new chairman, Ren Jun will temporarily perform the post of chairman. The board of directors unanimously agreed to appoint Mr. Zhang Jindong as honorary chairman of the company.。

According to the announcement, Huang Mingduan was nominated as chairman of the Strategy Committee of the next board of directors. The detailed rules for the work of SUNING's board of directors clearly stipulate that the chairman of the Strategy Committee shall be the chairman. Huang Mingduan, a Taiwanese in China, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gaoxin Retail since October 17, 2020.

Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce company, completed its latest round of financing at a valuation of about $40 billion, and its majority shareholder Wal-Mart, together with other investors, injected nearly $4 billion into the company.。

The latest round of financing is expected to be announced as early as this week. The round of financing is good for Flipkart and Wal-Mart, which bought a majority stake in Flipkart for $16 billion three years ago and has been planning IPO. Softbank Corp. had previously supported Flipkart, but later sold his stake to Wal-Mart at a handsome profit. This time, the company has re-invested in Flipkart.

According to the decision of the General Administration of Market Supervision, Huya, Douyu and Tencent signed a termination agreement on July 12, 2021, and the merger agreement signed by the three parties on October 12, 2020 will be terminated immediately.。

The six-month strategic merger, brokered by Tencent, could have created China's largest live game platform. On July 10, the General Administration of Market Supervision announced that it banned the merger of Huya and Douyu for anti-monopoly reasons, which is also the first phase of banned investment mergers and acquisitions in the Internet industry.

According to a report released by IDC, global PC shipments reached 83.6 million units in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 13.2% over the same period last year. Lenovo shipped 20.005 million units in the second quarter, an increase of more than 14.9% over the same period last year, with a market share of 23.9%.Ranking first in the global PC market share.

The second to fifth places were Hewlett-Packard (18.594 million, with a share of 22.2%), Dell (13.976 million with a share of 16.7%), Apple (6.156 million with a share of 7.4%) and Acer (6.088 million with a share of 7.3%).

Huawei and Verizon have agreed to settle two patent infringement lawsuits and keep the terms of the agreement confidential. In February 2020, Huawei sued Verizon, accusing it of unauthorized use of more than a dozen Huawei patents in areas such as computer networks, download security and video communications, seeking compensation and paying royalties for an unknown amount.

Huawei noted that it "has more than 100000 valid patents worldwide, including about 10, 000 US patents." Huawei's other lawsuit against Verizon patent infringement will be heard in Texas West District Court in October, mainly involving patents related to network infrastructure.

GAC GROUP announced that the board of directors recently examined and passed a motion on the joint development of the first medium-and large-scale intelligent pure electric SUV model by its new energy vehicle company GAC Ean and Huawei.The project has a total investment of 788 million yuan and is scheduled for mass production by the end of 2023

According to the cooperation agreement, the two sides will build a new generation of smart vehicle digital platform based on GAC GEP3.0 chassis platform and Huawei CCA (Computing and Communication Architecture), equipped with Huawei's full-stack smart car solution, jointly define and jointly develop, and jointly build a series of smart vehicles for the future.

Volkswagen has warned that the global shortage of semiconductors affecting car production will worsen in the next six months.Joined the ranks of car companies that lowered their forecasts for the rest of the year.

Previously, the auto industry chief executive and industry analysts had expected the chip crisis to bottom out in the second quarter and gradually improve over the next six months.

Car deliveries at GM's joint venture in China increased by 5.2% in the second quarter.It reached more than 750000, thanks to growing demand for its large luxury sports vehicles (SUV) and utility vehicles (MUV). Sales of its Cadillac XT6 three-row large luxury SUV rose 42 per cent to about 10000, while demand for its GL8 premium family vehicles rose 40 per cent to more than 45000.

Ford China releases sales figures in China for the first half of 2021. From January to June this year, the automaker sold a total of 306707 new cars in the Chinese market, an increase of 24% over the same period last year.。

Among them, sales in the second quarter, affected by the shortage of chips, fell slightly by 3.6% from the same period last year to 152885 vehicles. In the first half of this year, 116015 Ford passenger cars were sold, an increase of 6% over the same period last year, mainly due to the continued growth in demand for Ford-branded high-end cars and SUV models. Ford's premium car brand, with sales of 42259 vehicles, set a record for the first half of the year since it entered the Chinese market.

Eight global insurance and reinsurance companies, including Allianz Group of Germany, Axa Group of France, Zhongli Insurance of Italy, Aviva Group of the United Kingdom, Munich Reinsurance of Germany, French Reinsurance, Swiss Reinsurance and Zurich Insurance Group, established the "net Zero Insurance Alliance" on July 11.(Net-Zero Insurance Alliance,NZIA) to achieve the common goal of carbon neutrality and accelerate the transition to a net zero emission economy. According to the data disclosed by the alliance, the assets under management of the net Zero Insurance Alliance have now reached $2.4 trillion.

The European Commission has approved Aon's acquisition of peer Willis Towers Watson.But only if Aon meets some of its promises about possible anti-competitive behaviour.

These commitments include the sale of Wailai Tao Yue's core business to brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher, which will improve the broker's business in the European Economic area. Weilaitaoyue and Aon are both leaders in the insurance and reinsurance brokerage market.

Chinese battery manufacturer Yiwei LiNeng has announced that it will take a stake in a small lithium production company and set up a joint venture to build a lithium chemical project with a phased investment of no more than 1.8 billion yuan.。

Prior to that, the company had made moves in the raw materials for electric car batteries, taking a stake in cobalt maker Huayou Cobalt and holding a 17% stake in a $2.1 billion nickel-cobalt project in Indonesia. The company plans to acquire a 28.1 per cent stake in Jinkunlun Lithium, a lithium metal producer based in Qinghai province. The two sides plan to set up a joint venture in Qinghai, with Yiwei LiNeng holding 80% and Jin Kunlun holding 20%.

Pfizer (Pfizer) and BioNTech are preparing to start clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine specifically targeting the Delta variant next month.

There are concerns about a decline in the protection of existing vaccines against this highly contagious strain that spreads rapidly around the world. Two drugmakers are developing an upgraded version of COVID-19 vaccine that will be produced using the pedigree of the Delta variant. Pfizer and BioNTech are in discussions with US drug regulators to finalise plans for clinical trials expected to begin in August.

Fosun Industries, a subsidiary of Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group, has signed agreements with TSMC, Hon Hai and Yongling Foundation for the sale of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Under the agreement, Fosun will sell a total of 10 million doses of the vaccine to the above-mentioned purchasers.

In March 2020, Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical signed an agreement with BioNTech of Germany to participate in the research and development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and has exclusive commercial rights and interests in Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In January this year, the vaccine was approved for emergency use in the Hong Kong Special Administrative region. In February this year, the vaccine was licensed to be imported by the Health Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative region and used in Macao's COVID-19 vaccination program.

Goto Seiichi, president of Fuji Film Holdings (FUJIFILM Holdings) in Japan, said he would strengthen the development and commission production of biological drugs such as antibody drugs and COVID-19 vaccines.. Sales of the business are expected to reach 200 billion yen in 2024, about double that of 2020.

Goto believes that the field related to biomedicine has particular potential. Biological drugs with antibody drugs as the mainstream have attracted much attention because of their good therapeutic effects, and the market for gene therapy drugs in the most cutting-edge fields is also expected to expand.

The beer sales of Japan's four beer giants in the first half of 2021 (January-June) were all released on the 12th. Affected by the closure of restaurants and the suspension of alcohol supply under the epidemic of COVID-19, commercial beer fell into an uphill battle.All companies showed a year-on-year decline.

In terms of beer sales, including sparkling wine and category III beer, Kirin beer decreased by 2%, Suntory beer by 11% and Sapporo beer by 5%. Asahi Beer's sales fell 8 per cent. Compared with the first half of 2020, which was in the doldrums due to the epidemic, it declined further.

Richard Branson (Richard Branson) reached the edge of space and returned safely to Earth, marking a turning point in the billionaire's decades-old plan to create space tourism。

Branson and five other crew members completed the space trip on Sunday, giving credibility to the company's ability to provide safe space travel services to passengers. Virgin Galactic, founded by Branson, plans to launch a commercial service next year, with space trips costing $100, 000 per person, with the ultimate goal of providing at least one service a day.

贝Jeff Bezos's space flight company Blue Origin officially tweeted that the live broadcast of space flight activities next Tuesday will begin at 06:30 in the US central time zone (CDT).。

The space flight will last for 11 minutes, and the spacecraft will take Bezos 99 kilometers from Earth and "touch" to the edge of space. The spaceship will have a total of four passengers, including his brother Mark Bezos, another space tourist who paid a "ticket fee" of $28 million, and another passenger in addition to Bezos.

Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost airline, is about to launch the largest recruitment campaign among European airlinesIt plans to recruit 2000 pilots over the next three years to compete for market share from competitors hit by the epidemic. Ryanair said it needed pilots to fly the Boeing 737 Max, which it received last month, and will start training new recruits this year with a view to starting next summer.