Erinome: Hello everyone! Welcome to our daily news podcast. I'm Erinome, and sitting next to me is Enceladus. Let's dive into today's news stories, okay?
Enceladus: Sure! Let's start with the first one. What's up with travel for New Year?
Erinome: Oh, data shows New Year's Eve train tickets for some popular routes are already sold out! And flight bookings? They're more than 2 times higher than last year. Wow, so many people are traveling!
Enceladus: No surprise—everyone wants to celebrate the New Year away, right? Next, animation movies had a great year in 2025!
Erinome: Yes! The total box office for animation movies in 2025 broke 25 billion yuan. That makes it the highest ever in Chinese film history. Cool, huh?
Enceladus: That's amazing! So many good animations this year. Moving on to railways—how's their "report card" for the first 11 months?
Erinome: Oh, they did well! They sent 3.727 billion tons of goods, up 2.7% from last year. It's really supporting the national economy to run smoothly.
Enceladus: Nice! Now, good news for drivers: domestic oil prices.
Erinome: Right! The last oil price adjustment of 2025 will end with three straight drops. Filling a full tank? You'll save 6.5 yuan. And our biggest offshore oilfield? It produced over 40 million tons of oil and gas this year, a new record!
Enceladus: Wow, saving money and more oil—double good! What about Shandong province?
Erinome: Shandong will start a new rule in 2026: unified standards for traffic accident compensation. Now many compensation calculations have "hard rules"—no more guesswork!
Enceladus: That’s fair. No more arguments about money, right? Next, ads with "big words to catch eyes, small words to avoid responsibility"—is that ending?
Erinome: Maybe! The market regulator is asking for opinions on new ad rules. If it passes, that tricky "big font吸引, small font免责" thing might become history. Haha, finally!
Enceladus: About time! Those ads are so confusing. Now, government reforms—how are coordination agencies doing?
Erinome: Many places showed results. Like Guizhou’s Qiannan area—they cut over 80% of prefecture-level coordination agencies. That must make work more efficient!
Enceladus: 80%? That’s a lot! Good job. Now, sports news: Zhejiang has a new football league?
Erinome: Yes! The first Zhejiang City Football League is coming soon. They’ll learn from the "Zhe BA" model. You know "Zhe BA"—the popular basketball league? Maybe football will be as fun!
Enceladus: Can’t wait to watch! Next, a sad story about scams targeting the elderly.
Erinome: Oh no, state media exposed a bad trick. Stores use free eggs to get old people into groups, then brainwash them in live streams to sell expensive "magic medicine". In 3 months, over 10,000 people joined, and sales hit over 1 million yuan. That’s so mean!
Enceladus: Sad, really. Old people need to be careful. Now, a missing Chinese woman on a European cruise—what happened?
Erinome: She was on a cruise, but now she’s missing. During the trip, she only bought one glass of orange juice. She didn’t do formal disembarkation, and we still don’t know if she fell into the water. Hope she’s safe, you know?
Enceladus: Hope so too. Let’s switch to foreign news. Musk—his money is crazy now?
Erinome: Oh yeah! Foreign media says his 56 billion USD salary plan ruling is done. Now he’s the first person with over 700 billion USD wealth—500 billion more than the second richest! 700 billion… that’s hard to imagine!
Enceladus: Haha, 500 billion more than the next? That’s a huge gap! Now, US visa problems for foreign workers?
Erinome: Yep, US media says visa review time is way longer. Google and Apple told their foreign employees: don’t leave the US, or you might get stuck outside for a long time. Oh no, that’s tough—can’t even visit family?
Enceladus: That must be stressful. Last one: Epstein case files.
Erinome: US Justice Department released two more batches of files, but over 550 pages are fully blacked out. People are questioning it, but the department says it’s legal. Hmm, why so much black?
Enceladus: Maybe secrets? Who knows. Well, that’s all the news for today!
Erinome: Yep! Thanks for listening, everyone. I’m Erinome,
Enceladus: and I’m Enceladus. See you next time! Bye!
