Daily Brief: Thursday, August 26, 2021, July 19th of the Lunar Calendar

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Thursday, August 26, 2021, the 19th day of the 7th lunar month: 1. Regular State Council meeting: Push to include childcare service fees for infants and toddlers under 3 years old in the special additional deductions for individual income tax. 2. Zheng Zhemin, an academician of the two academies, has passed away; he was once a student of Qian Weichang and Qian Xuesen. This year, 20 more academians have lost their lives. 3. Eight departments including the Ministry of Education: Private compulsory education schools are not allowed to recruit students under the name of public schools. 4. Failing to complete the required rectifications on time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology removed 67 apps, including Qingting FM, from the market. 5. Beijing has made it clear that, in the new semester, school principals and teachers will be rotated on a large scale across the city. 6. Major breakthrough! Shale oil with a predicted geological reserve of 1.268 billion tons has been discovered in our country. 7. Leading education companies such as Yuanfudao and Zuoyebang laid off tens of thousands of employees in August and closed multiple local offices. 8. Nanjing introduces new regulations to improve the quality of residential planning: ground-level parking spaces for motor vehicles are generally not allowed. 9. On the first day of the Tokyo Paralympics, the Chinese team won a total of 5 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 2 bronze medals. 10. Algeria announced that it is severing diplomatic relations with Morocco effective immediately. 11. Taliban: Aims to get assistance from countries such as the United States to have it removed from the UN’s list of terrorist organizations. 12. A bottle of water costs 260 yuan! A meal costs over 600 yuan! Prices at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan have soared. 【Microquote】Setbacks are the tuition fee to be paid for moving toward success.