Krstar Evening News | The movie "Zootopia+ 2" ranks among the top two in the annual box office list; Xiaohongshu makes another adjustment to its community structure; Chow Tai Fook raises prices again
Large Companies:
Meg O'Neill, the CEO of Australia's Woodside Energy, will succeed Murray Auchincloss to lead this London-based energy company. Auchincloss, who has held the position for less than two years, is about to leave.
Xiaohongshu Readjusts Its Community Structure Again
Xiaohongshu carried out a deep adjustment to its community organizational structure a few months ago with the intention of achieving "integration of product, operation, and R & D." A person familiar with the matter said that in the newly divided responsibilities, Yunfan (Xiaohongshu user name) and Xindao (Xiaohongshu user name) will be in charge respectively. Among them, the part under Yunfan's charge is named "Live" and will report directly to Conan (Xiaohongshu user name), the COO of Xiaohongshu; the part under Xindao's charge is named "Village" and will still report to Paru, the person in charge of the community business. "In the past, we operated based on vertical categories. Now, we divide according to different business goals," the aforementioned person familiar with the matter said.
The 30,000th New NIO ES8 Is Delivered
36Kr learned that on December 18, the 30,000th new NIO ES8 was delivered in Chengdu. Since reaching the milestone of delivering the 20,000th new car on November 29, the new ES8 only took 19 days to complete the delivery of the 30,000th car, setting the fastest record for a domestic pure - electric vehicle priced over 400,000 yuan to reach 30,000 deliveries.
36Kr learned that China Energy Engineering said on the interactive platform that the company has laid out industrial robot manufacturing. Currently, it has successfully developed PV panel cleaning robots, automatic PV panel paving robots, etc. In terms of hydropower construction, it has jointly developed intelligent equipment such as the integrated intelligent inclined shaft excavation and drilling protection system.
Is Sony's Huizhou Factory Closing? Industry Insiders Say It Was Sold Last Year
On December 18, in response to the rumor that Sony was closing its factory in Huizhou, Guangdong, an industry insider told a reporter from Yicai that Sony (China) Co., Ltd. transferred the equity of Sony Precision Components (Huizhou) Co., Ltd. to Japanese recycled wafer manufacturer RS Technologies last year. The transaction was completed at the end of December last year.
SpaceX Completes 165 Launch Missions This Year, with Two More Before the End of the Year
Kiko Dontchev, the vice - president of launch at SpaceX, posted on X that SpaceX has completed 165 launch missions this year. Although the initial target was set at 170, according to business and demand, the target was revised to 165 this summer. There will be two more Falcon launches in 2025, bringing the total number of launches to 167. Elon Musk reposted the post and congratulated the SpaceX team.
BOCOM Securities Responds to App Removal: Effective Measures Have Been Taken to Ensure Rectification
The Shanghai Communications Administration announced on December 17 that due to violations of user rights and interests, the BOCOM Securities App (SDK) was forcibly removed from the market, raising questions about its compliance management capabilities. In response to the app removal incident, a relevant person in charge of BOCOM Securities said that after receiving the notice of problems from the Shanghai Communications Administration, the company quickly carried out rectification and submitted a rectification and self - assessment report as required. Regarding the issue of the app being removed from some app stores, the company is actively communicating with relevant parties to understand the situation and strive to resolve it as soon as possible.
Chow Tai Fook Raises Prices Again
Chow Tai Fook's official Tmall flagship store posted a notice in an inconspicuous position on its homepage on December 17, stating that due to market factors, the prices of some products will be increased. The price adjustment will take place on December 19. On social platforms, sales staff at Chow Tai Fook stores in many places said they have successively received new price tags. On the 18th, a salesperson at a Chow Tai Fook store in Beijing's Jingxi Joy City said, "The price of fixed - price gold will indeed increase tomorrow. Currently, only a very small number of products have updated price tags."
New Products:
36Kr learned that Meituan's LongCat team officially released and open - sourced the SOTA - level virtual human video generation model, LongCat - Video - Avatar. Based on the LongCat - Video base, this model continues the core design of "one model supporting multiple tasks" and natively supports core functions such as Audio - Text - to - Video (AT2V), Audio - Text - Image - to - Video (ATI2V), and video continuation. At the same time, it has been comprehensively upgraded in the underlying architecture, achieving breakthroughs in three dimensions: motion realism, long - video stability, and identity consistency.
Investment and Financing:
Momenta announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with the travel and lifestyle service platform Grab and received strategic investment from Grab. The two sides will jointly promote the application of autonomous driving technology in the Southeast Asian market.
"Hesheng Technology" Completes Pre - A Round of Financing
36Kr learned that the AstraZeneca CICC Healthcare Industry Fund announced today that it has completed a Pre - A round of financing for "Hesheng Technology." This round of financing was led by the AstraZeneca CICC Healthcare Industry Fund, with participation from institutions such as Zhongxin Juyuan, Hangzhou High - tech Jintou, and Shanghai Zhuopu.
Other Noteworthy News:
Study: AI's Water and Electricity Consumption to Soar in 2025
A new study has evaluated the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and called on technology companies to improve the transparency of their pollution emissions and water consumption. According to the latest estimates, the carbon emissions generated by AI this year are equivalent to the annual emissions of New York City, and the water consumption is comparable to the total amount of bottled water consumed globally.
The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Cracking Down on Tobacco - Related Illegal Activities across the Whole Chain," proposing a series of targeted policy measures to solve prominent problems such as tobacco counterfeiting, selling counterfeit products, and smuggling, continuously purify the tobacco market environment, and effectively safeguard national interests and consumer rights.
Trump: Nomination for New Fed Chair to Be Announced Soon, Will Support "Substantial" Rate Cuts
US President Donald Trump said in a televised address to the nation on the evening of the 17th that the nominee for the next Fed chair will be announced soon, and this candidate will support "substantial" interest rate cuts. "I'm about to announce our next Fed chair," Trump said. "This person supports substantial rate cuts, and mortgage payments will drop further."
China's First National Standard in the Field of Virtual Digital Humans Is Officially Released
China's first national standard in the field of virtual digital humans, "General Technical Requirements for Customer - Service - Type Virtual Digital Humans in Information Technology," was officially released recently. The introduction of this standard fills the gap in industry technical specifications and provides unified technical requirements and evaluation standards for the R & D, production, and application of customer - service - type virtual digital humans.
Movie "Zootopia 2" Enters the Top Two on the Annual Box Office List
36Kr learned that according to data from Maoyan Professional Edition, the cumulative box office (including pre - sales) of the movie "Zootopia 2" has exceeded 3.613 billion yuan, entering the top two on the 2025 annual box office list.