BEIJING, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Yiren Digital Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) (“Yiren Digital”), an AI-powered platform providing a comprehensive suite of financial and lifestyle services in China, today announced that its proprietary “Zhiyu Large Model” (智语大模型) has received regulatory approval for commercialization through the successful filing under Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services. This milestone highlights Yiren Digital’s leadership in AI innovation, enabling the commercial deployment of secure and efficient intelligent solutions across diverse business applications.

The Zhiyu Large Model, a versatile foundation model, leverages Yiren Digital’s advanced AI capabilities to deliver a range of solutions, including real-time content processing and analysis, automated contract review, multilingual translation, intelligent Q&A and code generation capabilities. These features have been integrated into the company’s core workflows such as meeting management, legal document review, and tax/financial operations, driving measurable efficiency gains and fostering a smarter digital workplace.

Building on this success, Yiren Digital will actively broaden the model’s applications across diverse business scenarios, with particular focus on enhancing consumer-facing (2C) interactions. The goal is to deliver more natural and human-like engagement through AI-powered interfaces. Future integration with customer service systems will further elevate responsiveness and overall service quality.

Since its inception, Yiren Digital has consistently prioritized technological innovation and has developed a suite of seven proprietary AI systems that form the backbone of its operations, including the DiTing intelligent decision-making system, LingShu intelligent marketing platform, QingNiao smart customer service solution, and ZhuQue intelligent fund routing platform. The ZhuQue platform exemplifies the company’s technological prowess, employing sophisticated algorithms to optimize fund allocation based on dynamic analysis of borrower credit profiles, partner risk parameters, and cost structures. This system alone generated annual cost savings of RMB 44 million for the year 2024. With the commercial approval of the Zhiyu Large Model, Yiren Digital anticipates accelerated enhancement of its existing systems and smoother realization of its comprehensive AI commercialization strategy.

The regulatory approval positions Yiren Digital among an elite group of innovators. As of April 10, 2025, only 128 generative AI services in Beijing had successfully completed the filing process. Earlier this year, Yiren Digital became a member of China’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), recognized for its cutting-edge advancements in AI development and applications. The company was also recognized among 2024 “Beijing’s Top 100 Software and Information Services Enterprises” and won the 2024 “Golden FinTech” Excellence Award by CAICT.

About Yiren Digital

Yiren Digital Ltd. is an advanced, AI-powered platform providing a comprehensive suite of financial and lifestyle services in China. Our mission is to elevate customers’ financial well-being and enhance their quality of life by delivering digital financial services, tailor-made insurance solutions, and premium lifestyle services. We support clients at various growth stages, addressing financing needs arising from consumption and production activities, while aiming to augment the overall well-being and security of individuals, families, and businesses.

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GUANGZHOU, China, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 137th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), one of the world’s largest trade events, will kick off on April 15 and run through May 5 in Guangzhou, China. At the press conference hosted by China’s Ministry of Commerce, key highlights of the Fair were unveiled. Covering approximately 1.55 million square meters, the Fair will feature around 74,000 booths and welcome about 31,000 exhibitors. Notably, the number of National Pavilion exhibitors will surpass 30,000 for the first time, up nearly 900 from the previous session.

The 137th Canton Fair will present a broader scope of exhibition themes, with each of its three phases spotlighting a distinct focus: “Advanced Manufacturing,” “Quality Home Life,” and “Better Life.” The event will feature 55 exhibition sections and 172 product zones in total. A dedicated service robot zone will debut in the first phase, showcasing a diverse array of robotic solutions for personal, domestic, and professional use. A new section for integrated housing will also be introduced.

Furthermore, the Fair boasts higher quality participation with over 4,200 new exhibitors. Among all the exhibitors, more than 9,700 participating companies have earned national titles, such as specialized and sophisticated small and medium enterprises, manufacturing single champions, national high-tech enterprises, marking a 20% increase from the 136th session. Nearly 3,700 companies focus on new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, solar cells, digital technology, and intelligent manufacturing. Additionally, more than 17,000 exhibitors will showcase their own brands, and nearly 22,000 companies have obtained various international certifications.

The Canton Fair App, an essential tool for both onsite and online engagement, has been widely downloaded since its launch. This year, the App will be upgraded with separate versions for buyers and suppliers, offering more targeted features and improved functionality. In parallel, the online platform’s service offerings have been enhanced, and the trade matchmaking system has been restructured to streamline the matchmaking process, boosting both efficiency and accuracy.

To better serve exhibitors and buyers, the Fair will host over 1,000 trade promotion activities during the Fair. Highlights include 18 industry-focused conferences and forums, around 400 new collection events, more than 590 “Trade Bridge” matchmaking events, and 20 “Discover Canton Fair with Bee and Honey” livestreaming activities.

To download the Canton Fair App, please visit https://cief.cantonfair.org.cn/en/app/appintro.html.

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BEIJING, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Weibo Corporation (the “Weibo” or “Company”) (Nasdaq: WB and HKEX: 9898), China’s leading social media platform, today published a notice to announce that it will hold an annual general meeting (the “AGM”) of shareholders (the “Notice of AGM”) at 5809-5810, Two International Finance Centre, 8th Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time), for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the proposed resolutions set forth in the Notice of AGM. The Notice of AGM and proxy card for the AGM are available on the Company’s website at ir.weibo.com. The board of directors of Weibo fully supports the proposed resolutions listed in the Notice of AGM and recommends that shareholders and holders of ADSs vote in favor of the resolutions set out in the Notice of AGM.

Holders of record of Class A ordinary shares of the Company (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”) and Class B ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on April 30, 2025, Hong Kong time, are entitled to attend and vote at the AGM and any adjourned meeting thereof. Holders of record of American Depositary Shares (the “ADSs”) as of the close of business on April 30, 2025, New York time, who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares must give voting instructions to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the depositary of the ADSs. 

Weibo’s Form 20-F can be accessed on the Company’s website at ir.weibo.com, as well as on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

About Weibo

Weibo is a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content online. Weibo combines the means of public self-expression in real time with a powerful platform for social interaction, content aggregation and content distribution. Any user can create and post a feed and attach multi-media and long-form content. User relationships on Weibo may be asymmetric; any user can follow any other user and add comments to a feed while reposting. This simple, asymmetric and distributed nature of Weibo allows an original feed to become a live viral conversation stream.

Weibo enables its advertising and marketing customers to promote their brands, products and services to users. Weibo offers a wide range of advertising and marketing solutions to companies of all sizes. Weibo generates a substantial majority of its revenues from the sale of advertising and marketing services, including the sale of social display advertisement and promoted marketing offerings. Weibo displays content in a simple information feed format and offers native advertisement that conform to the information feed on our platform. We are continuously refining our social interest graph recommendation engine, which enables our customers to perform people marketing and target audiences based on user demographics, social relationships, interests and behaviors, to achieve greater relevance, engagement and marketing effectiveness.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology, such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “confidence,” “estimates” and similar statements. Weibo may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in the Company’s periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), in announcements, circulars or other publications made on the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Hong Kong Stock Exchange”), in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company’s beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Weibo’s limited operating history in certain new businesses; failure to sustain or grow active user base and the level of user engagement; the uncertain regulatory landscape in China; fluctuations in the Company’s quarterly operating results; the Company’s reliance on advertising and marketing sales for a majority of its revenues; failure to successfully develop, introduce, drive adoption of or monetize new features and products; failure to compete effectively for advertising and marketing spending; failure to successfully integrate acquired businesses; risks associated with the Company’s investments, including equity pick-up and impairment; failure to compete successfully against new entrants and established industry competitors; changes in the macro-economic environment, including the depreciation of the Renminbi; and adverse changes in economic and political policies of the PRC government and its impact on the Chinese economy. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Weibo’s annual reports on Form 20-F and other filings with the SEC and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. All information provided in this press release is current as of the date hereof, and Weibo assumes no obligation to update such information, except as required under applicable law.

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Weibo Corporation
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Email: ir@staff.weibo.com

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