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1. Tickets for the 2023 railway Spring Festival travel rush will go on sale on December 24. 2. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced anti-sanction measures against two Americans (Yu Maochun and Todd Starn): to cease interfering in Tibetan affairs. 3. CBIRC: Actively meet the reasonable financing needs of high-quality leading real estate companies, and increase investment in stocks of high-quality listed companies. 4. House prices across the country have returned to their levels from two years ago, with prices in 29 cities such as Harbin and Taiyuan being even lower than they were then. 5. **Health Insurance Bureau: Conduct a thorough review and eliminate unreasonable restrictions on health insurance.** (Aiming at unreasonable practices in some medical institutions, such as refusing to admit patients who are insured, forcing patients to be discharged midway, and refusing to issue \"long-term prescriptions\" for patients with eligible chronic diseases.) 6. The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges will continue to waive the listing fees for listed companies next year, resulting in a total reduction of over 800 million yuan. 7. Olympic weightlifting champion Lu Xiaojun responds to positive doping test: Will cooperate with the investigation to prove his innocence. 8. The giant panda in Japan, “Xiangxang,” is scheduled to return to China on February 21 next year, but the date has been postponed four times. 9. Shanghai Disney: Starting from June 23 next year, the prices of four types of tickets will increase by 30 to 60 yuan each. 10. Huawei and Nokia have renewed their patent licensing agreement; 45% of global data communication connections are covered by Huawei’s licenses. 11. Russia’s only aircraft carrier catches fire again; Putin: Willing to end the war through negotiations, but it is Ukraine that refuses to negotiate. 12. South Korea **reviews the list for New Year’s amnesty: Lee Myung-bak is on it and is likely to be pardoned. 13. Research: Approximately 65% of native species in Antarctica are likely to disappear by the end of this century. 14. Merck’s oral COVID-19 drug trial: did not reduce the incidence of severe illness in vaccinated individuals, but accelerated recovery. 15. After Afghan women were barred from universities, male students refused to take exams and male teachers resigned in protest.