Qingming Holiday Travel Reaches Peak Popularity! Many Scenic Spots and Museums "Sold Out"During the Qingming holiday, with the warm spring weather, people's enthusiasm for travel was fully ignited, and major popular scenic spots and museums welcomed peak passenger flow, with some areas even experiencing a "sold out" situation for tickets.Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo, Maijishan Grottoes, and other places successively issued warnings of ticket sell-outs, and the online reservations for Longmen Grottoes were also sold out early.Well-known venues including the Palace Museum and Suzhou Museum showed that reservations were full even before the holiday.On social media, photos shared by tourists showing "crowds of people" were everywhere, using the phrase "feeling of being pushed from behind" to describe the degree of congestion.Reports show that the weather during this year's Qingming holiday was fine, and short-distance travel around the area was particularly popular, with bookings significantly increasing compared to the same period last year, and the spring outing activities of young people born after 2000 also injected new vitality into the cultural and tourism economy of counties.

Good News for Allergic Rhinitis Sufferers! China's Innovative Biologic Drug Launched, Quickly Relieving SymptomsThe research team of Beijing Tongren Hospital, affiliated with Capital Medical University, released important news in "Nature Medicine" that their developed novel biologic drug "Supkipebart" has been approved for marketing, becoming the world's first IL-4Rα monoclonal antibody drug specifically for the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis.Clinical studies have shown that the drug can significantly improve nasal and eye symptoms in patients with moderate to severe conditions, with most patients experiencing significant relief within four days of use and reaching the best efficacy on the fourteenth day.Supkipebart, by precisely targeting IL-4Rα, can dually block key interleukins that trigger allergic reactions, showing great potential to surpass traditional therapies.At the same time, the drug has good safety, with the incidence of adverse reactions comparable to the control group, and this groundbreaking research marks a milestone in China's field of allergic rhinitis treatment.

US Stocks Experience "Black Friday"! Nasdaq Plunges Nearly 6% and Officially Enters Bear MarketU.S. stocks experienced a sharp decline for the second consecutive trading day, with the Nasdaq index falling nearly 6% and officially entering a technical bear market.This is the largest two-day drop experienced by the three major U.S. stock indexes since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index also fell by 5.5% and 5.97% respectively, and investors' concerns about the global economic outlook are rapidly spreading, triggering panic selling in the market.Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell had previously warned that tariff policies would impact inflation and could potentially curb economic growth.The S&P 500 index saw a weekly drop of 9.1%, with the banking and semiconductor sectors being hit hard; meanwhile, multiple Chinese concept stocks, including JD.com and Alibaba, also suffered significant declines, with drops exceeding 7.7%, and international crude oil and precious metal markets were also affected, with WTI crude oil prices plummeting by 7.41%.The global market generally showed a downward trend, and the future direction is full of uncertainty.

Gamers Eagerly Await! Nintendo Officially Releases the New Switch 2 Game ConsoleThe highly anticipated new generation of Nintendo's game console, the Switch 2, has finally been officially released.It is reported that the new game console has launched dedicated and multi-language versions in Japan, priced at 49,980 yen (approximately RMB 2,427) and 69,980 yen (approximately RMB 3,398) respectively.In the U.S. market, the price of the Switch 2 is set at $449.99 (approximately RMB 3,270).This news quickly sparked widespread attention and enthusiastic discussion among gamers worldwide, who are full of anticipation for the improvements in gaming performance and user experience of the Switch 2.

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清明出游热度爆棚！多地景区博物馆“一票难求” | 美股遭遇“黑色星期五”！纳指暴跌近6%正式进入熊市