From June 5438 to1October 10, 2008, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, etc./kloc. Among them, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Anhui and other six provinces and regions were the most seriously affected. By the end of June, 5438+1end of October, 365438+1end of October 18, the direct economic loss caused by the disaster has reached 53.79 billion yuan.
May 12: Wenchuan earthquake
On May 28th, 2008, an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province at/0/2 14: 28. The earthquake involved Sichuan 18 cities (states) and parts of Gansu, Shaanxi and Chongqing, with the affected area exceeding 654.38+million square kilometers and the directly affected population exceeding100000. As of June 9, 2008 12, the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan has caused 69 142 deaths, 374,065 injuries, and 1755 1 missing, and the cumulative number of people affected is 46,249,048. In addition, the infrastructure of transportation, electricity, communication, water supply and gas supply in the disaster-stricken areas was damaged and suffered serious losses. In addition, as of July 3 1 day 12, the country has received donations from all walks of life at home and abroad totaling 59.249 billion yuan.
August 8: Beijing Olympic Games
From August 8 to 24, 2008, the 29th Olympic Games was held in China. This Olympic Games has established three concepts: green Olympics, high-tech Olympics and people's Olympics. Held 28 major events and 38 sub-events, resulting in 302 gold medals. More than 20,000 athletes, coaches and officials participated in the Beijing Olympic Games. Except for most of the competitions held in Beijing, sailing competitions were held in Qingdao, equestrian competitions were held in Hong Kong, and some football preliminaries were held in Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao. On July 8, 2005, at the117th plenary meeting of the International Olympic Committee held in Singapore, it was decided that Hong Kong would co-host the equestrian events of the 2008 Olympic Games, which was the second time in the Olympic history that Olympic committees from different regions co-hosted the equestrian events.
September 16: Poisoned milk powder incident.
At the beginning of September 2008, many months-old babies were found to have urinary calculi in hospitals all over the country. What these babies have in common is long-term consumption of the same brand of milk powder, which was later proved to be Sanlu brand infant milk powder. The tainted milk powder incident broke out. Since then, milk from Shengyuan, Mengniu, Yili, Guangming and other brands has been found to have exceeded the standard of melamine. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, from September 12 to September 17 at 8: 00, there were 6,244 clinically diagnosed children and 4 infants died. On October 7th, 65438/KLOC-0, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standardization Administration approved and issued the national standard "Detection Method of Melamine in Raw Milk and Dairy Products" (GB/T22388-2008), which stipulated the detection limit of melamine detection method.
September 16: the central bank lowered the loan interest rate for the first time in six years.
Since September 6, 2008, the benchmark interest rate of one-year RMB loans has been lowered by 0.27 percentage point, and the benchmark interest rates of other term loans have been adjusted accordingly according to the principle of short-term multi-adjustment and long-term multi-adjustment; The benchmark deposit interest rate remains unchanged. From September 25th, 2008, except for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of Communications and Postal Savings Bank, the deposit reserve ratio of other deposit-taking financial institutions was reduced by 1 percentage point, and the deposit reserve ratio of local corporate financial institutions in the hardest hit areas of Wenchuan earthquake was reduced by 2 percentage points.
September 25th: Shenzhou VII flies.
On September 25th, 2008, at 2 1: 10: 04.988 milliseconds, Shenzhou VII was launched. The spacecraft landed successfully at the main landing site of Siziwangqi, Inner Mongolia, China on September 28th, 2008 17: 37. Shenzhou VII spacecraft flew for 2 days, 20 hours and 28 minutes. The "first step" of Chinese astronauts into space will lead an era and open a new century. From February 8 to February 8, 2008, the 2008 Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting put forward the key tasks of economic work next year: First, strengthen and improve macro-control, and implement a proactive fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy. Second, consolidate and develop the good situation of agriculture and rural economy, ensure the effective supply of agricultural products, and promote the continuous increase of farmers' income. The third is to accelerate the transformation of development mode and promote the strategic adjustment of economic structure. The fourth is to deepen reform and opening up and improve the institutional mechanisms conducive to scientific development. Five, focus on solving difficult and hot issues involving the interests of the masses, and earnestly safeguard social stability.
65438+February 18: Fuel tax reform finalized.
On June 5438+February 65438+August 2008, the State Council announced that it would implement the reform of refined oil tax and fee from June 5438+ 10/in 2009, and cancel six fees, such as road maintenance fee, waterway maintenance fee, road transportation management fee and road passenger and freight surcharge, which were originally charged in addition to the price of refined oil, and gradually and orderly cancel the government's repayment of secondary roads. At the same time, the State Council decided to increase the unit tax of gasoline consumption tax levied in the price by 0.8 yuan per liter, that is, from 0.2 yuan per liter to 1 yuan per liter; The unit tax of diesel consumption tax is increased by 0.7 yuan per liter, that is, from 0. 1 yuan per liter to 0.8 yuan; Other refined oil consumption tax unit tax increased accordingly.
Xinhua News Agency selected the top ten international news in 2008.
1. The ups and downs of oil prices are affecting the nerves of the world. 2. Myanmar suffered heavy losses due to the storm. 3. The political situation in Thailand continues to be turbulent. 4. The North Korean nuclear issue is full of twists and turns. 6. The conflict between Russia and Georgia has deepened the opposition between Russia and the United States and Europe. 7. The financial crisis has severely hit the world economy. 8. Obama was elected president of the United States. 9. Mumbai, India suffered a terrorist attack. 10. Israeli air strikes have put the Palestinian-Israeli peace process in a dilemma.