China

  • CCTV News: As of September 18, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have reported a total of 2.174 billion doses of new crown virus vaccines. The total number of vaccinations exceeds 1.1 billion, accounting for 78% of the country’s total population. The total number of vaccination doses and the number of people covered rank first in the world, and the population coverage rate ranks among the highest in the world.
  • IiMedia Consulting: From 2015 to 2020, China’s moon cake sales rose from 13.18 billion yuan to 20.52 billion yuan, and it is expected to reach 21.81 billion yuan in 2021. The rise of the domestic high-end moon cake market, and the trend of high-end and high-quality moon cake industry development, have increased the overall moon cake price and drove the growth of sales. In addition, as Generation Z has become a new force in market consumption, the development trend of novel mooncake flavors has become more obvious.
  • National Railway Group: On September 19, the national railways are expected to send 10.5 million passengers. It is estimated that during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the national railway will send 40 million passengers; the national highway network has an average daily flow of about 33 million vehicles, which is basically the same as in 2019.
  • IResearch: In 2020, China’s game live broadcast market will reach 34.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.1%. It is expected that the overall market size will exceed 43 billion yuan in 2021; the number of game live broadcast users in China will reach 355 million, an increase of 18.3% year-on-year, of which , The mobile user penetration rate has exceeded 80%, and the development of the mobile terminal in the future will be an important direction for the game live broadcast platform.

Company

  • SpaceX: The astronauts of Inspiration4X, the first all-civilian space tour group, have returned to Earth. Earlier, its manned spacecraft set off from the Kennedy Space Center launch site and sent four ordinary American citizens into space to begin a three-day space travel around the earth. This is an “all-civilian team space orbit tour” without any professional astronauts.
  • Business Korea: Apple is expected to release its first foldable smartphone in 2023.