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On March 18, the "Opinion of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on Doing Well the Pilot Work of Further Extending 30 Years After the Second Round of Land Contracting Expires" was released, emphasizing the protection of farmers' rights and interests, steady pilot implementation, and comprehensive rollout across 29 provinces and municipalities, which concerns the interests of hundreds of millions of farmers.

People Finance News, March 17 — According to information obtained from reporters, CloudWalk Technology has launched the OpenClaw intelligent agent runtime environment at the National Cybersecurity Talent and Innovation Base. The deployment is a system space designed for continuous training and debugging of AI intelligent agents. CloudWalk Technology stated that by leveraging the cybersecurity environment and computing resources provided by the national cybersecurity base, the OpenClaw intelligent agent can operate within a complete security framework, ensuring that AI always runs within security rules, with all task execution processes being monitored and recorded, cultivating intelligent agents capable of continuous growth in real-world environments.

Sanfang Lane Announcement: The company's stock experienced consecutive daily limit-up moves from March 12 to 18, with cumulative gains of 61.33%. Affected by geopolitical situations and rising raw material prices, increased product prices have led to weakened downstream customer purchasing. Meanwhile, the controlling shareholder's shares have been pledged and subject to judicial freezing, which may result in a change of actual control.

TheFinance March 17 News - As of press time, southbound funds net outflow exceeded 4 billion Hong Kong dollars.

People's Finance News, March 17 — Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi stated at a press conference held in Tehran on March 16 that Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is only targeted at "enemies" and "those countries that have launched unjust aggression against our nation and their allies." Araghchi stated that the United States and other countries have launched large-scale attacks on Iran, opening with demands for "unconditional surrender." Now, they are seeking help from others on security issues in the Strait of Hormuz — and since the conflict began, Iran has not transmitted any messages to the United States. (CCTV International News)

People Finance News, March 16 - According to a CINNO Research report, as March arrives, the post-Lunar New Year holiday effects are fading, and the smartphone panel market continues to face severe challenges. Upstream memory and bulk raw material costs remain elevated, while downstream terminal procurement sentiment remains cautious, with panel prices across all technology roadmaps under widespread pressure. In the competition between "high costs" and "weak demand," buyers' bargaining power has significantly strengthened. To compete for limited orders, panel and module manufacturers continue to pursue a "trading volume for price" strategy, with overall prices expected to decline further.

The National Development and Reform Commission issued a document to advance child-friendly development, including improving free public service policies for children, promoting preschool education, providing free HPV vaccination, and building child-friendly hospitals, facilitating children's travel, and encouraging scenic areas and transportation institutions to provide discounts and convenient services for children.

On March 16, the three major A-share indices showed divergent performance, with technology sectors becoming the focus of capital attention, particularly notable net inflows in electronics and telecommunications. Despite continued net outflows of main force capital, the outflow scale narrowed. Cyclical sectors experienced capital withdrawal. Leading stocks such as BYD attracted capital, with evident capital inflows into technology stocks.

People's Finance News, March 17 – According to Qicha APP, recently AVIC Electrical Measurement Instrument (Xi'an) Co., Ltd. underwent business registration changes, with registered capital increased from 180 million yuan to 1 billion yuan. Qicha information shows that the company was established in 2011, with business scope including research and development of intelligent robots; sales of intelligent robots; software development; artificial intelligence application software development, among others, and is wholly owned by AVIC Chengfei.

# RMB Finance News March 16
The Shenzhen Municipal People's Government has issued the "Shenzhen Housing Provident Fund Management Measures." The Management Measures clarify that the contribution ratio for employees' personal housing provident fund contributions shall in principle be consistent with the ratio contributed by the employer, and employees who voluntarily increase their contribution ratio may select a ratio higher than that contributed by the employer, but shall not exceed the upper limit stipulated by the state. Within each housing provident fund year, employers and employees may adjust the housing provident fund contribution ratio once.

The National Development and Reform Commission and other departments released opinions to promote child-friendly construction, improve public service facilities such as education and healthcare, focus on age-appropriate renovation of public spaces, increase children's activity venues, promote construction models such as "block+" and "community+", ensure coverage of child-friendly spaces, and encourage localities to optimize the approval process for children's facility construction.

People Finance News March 16 — Huiyu Pharmaceutical (688553) announced on March 16 that shareholder Wang Xiaopeng, holding 3.94% of shares, plans to reduce holdings of no more than 12.708 million shares of the company through a combination of centralized competitive bidding and block trades due to personal capital needs, with a total reduction ratio not exceeding 3% of the company's total shares.

China Finance News, March 17 - Trading volumes on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges exceeded 2 trillion yuan for the 16th consecutive trading day, with a contraction of over 130 billion yuan compared to the same time on the previous day.

People Finance News, March 16 - China Rock and Soil (002542)announced on March 16 that recently, its wholly-owned subsidiary Beijing Changdao Municipal Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Changdao") signed a "Flight Area Infrastructure Maintenance Framework (Ancillary Facilities Maintenance) Project Construction Contract" with Shanghai International Airport Co., Ltd. The contract value is 66,239.55 million yuan. The winning bid amount for the above project accounts for 4.08% of the company's audited operating revenue for 2024.

People Finance News, March 18 — Local time March 17, the U.S. Federal Reserve began a two-day monetary policy meeting. The meeting is taking place as Middle East conflicts have driven up international oil prices, with markets expecting the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged. (CCTV News)

International oil prices surged significantly due to Israeli strikes on Iran and Lebanon, with WTI crude breaking through $98 and Brent approaching $105. Iran's Foreign Minister stated they will not cease fire, warning the US not to deploy ground troops.

People Finance News on March 16 reported that China Eastern Airlines (600115) announced on March 16 that the company's passenger capacity input (measured in available seat kilometers) for February 2026 increased 12.79% year-over-year; passenger turnover volume (measured in revenue passenger kilometers) increased 14.68% year-over-year; passenger load factor was 86.54%, up 1.42 percentage points year-over-year. Cargo and mail turnover volume (measured in cargo and mail revenue ton kilometers) for February 2026 increased 33.88% year-over-year.

Multiple attack incidents have recently occurred in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters, including unidentified attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, and drone and missile attacks on gas fields in the UAE and oil fields in Iraq. Despite the tense situation, multiple countries including Germany and Italy have explicitly refused to participate in escort operations, leading to sharp increases in international oil prices. Financial markets are concerned about the impact of the conflict on oil supply.

The essence of modernization is human modernization. An important goal of advancing Chinese-style modernization is to promote comprehensive human development and high-quality population development. Following the 2025 government work report's first inclusion of "investment in people," proposing to redirect more financial resources to "investment in people" and serve the livelihood of the people. This year's government work report further points out that fiscal expenditure will maintain a considerable scale, continuing to optimize the expenditure structure with greater emphasis on supporting consumption stimulus, investment in people, and safeguarding livelihood. The 15th Five-Year Plan outline also emphasizes closely integrating benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption with investment in physical assets and investment in people. This marks a major strategic shift and transformation in investment development strategy and corresponding financing and investment policy orientation in advancing Chinese-style modernization.
"Investment in people" is a key pathway in the process of advancing Chinese-style modernization to promote comprehensive human development and high-quality population development from