2024-2025学年寒假高中英语外刊时事新闻：阅读理解3篇（含解析）

2025年寒假高一英语专项训练之阅读理解 中国推出计划，利用长期资金提振A股市场】 China has launched a multiyear plan to ensure a continuous inflow of long-term funds into the A-share market, aiming to support the steady performance of the world’s second-largest stock market. The plan, unveiled by six central agencies including the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), is set to inject around 1 trillion yuan ($137.2 billion) annually in medium- to long-term funding. According to Wu Qing, chairman of the CSRC, starting in 2025, large state-owned insurance companies will strive to invest 30 percent of their annual new premiums in the A-share market. This is expected to bring in hundreds of billions of yuan in new long-term funds annually. Additionally, mutual funds will increase their holdings of free-float A shares by at least 10 percent each year over the next three years. The second phase of a pilot program that facilitates the launching of long-term stock investment funds by insurers will be implemented in the first half of 2025, with an initial size of no less than 100 billion yuan. The plan also extends the performance evaluation cycles for medium- and long-term funds, with mutual funds, state-owned commercial insurance companies, the basic pension fund, and annuity funds to be evaluated over a cycle of more than three years. The national social security fund’s evaluation period will be more than five years. Wu noted that this is a significant institutional breakthrough, as long-term performance evaluations can smooth out the impact of short-term market fluctuations on investment performance. The CSRC is also attracting long-term investments by encouraging listed companies’ dividend payouts and share buybacks, with the dividend yield of the CSI 300 Index reaching 3 percent, significantly higher than the yield on 10-year Chinese treasury bonds. In December and January, the total dividend distributions of A-share listed companies are expected to exceed 340 billion yuan, which is 7.6 times the amount seen in the same period last year. Yang Delong, chief economist at First Seafront Fund, stated that the high dividend yields will attract other types of funds, such as residential deposits, to enter the stock market, further boosting its performance. “A rise in stock asset prices would boost consumption, driving a virtuous cycle for economic recovery,” Yang added. Xiao Yuanqi, vice-minister of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, said the administration will approve 50 billion yuan before the Spring Festival holiday to expand the second-phase pilot program for insurers’ stock investment funds. Experts agree that swift implementation of the plan is crucial to prevent further market adjustments and restore investor confidence. Feng Jianlin, chief economist at Beijing FOST Economic Consulting, emphasized that both immediate and systemic solutions are necessary to improve expectations for China’s medium- to long-term economic tra ... ...