BEIJING, Aug. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China Daily:

The 2026 Forum on Global Human Rights Governance opened in Beijing on June 11, bringing together government officials, experts, and representatives from around the world to discuss pathways toward joint development and shared human rights.

At the forum’s parallel session on “Green Development and the Protection of Human Rights”, representatives from Tianjin shared the city’s achievements and innovations in promoting sustainable development while safeguarding people’s rights and well-being. Their contributions highlighted Tianjin’s efforts to integrate ecological progress, technological innovation, and public services into a people-centered development model, offering valuable insights for international dialogue on human rights governance.

Prior to the forum, international delegates took part in a four-day visit to Tianjin from June 7 to 10. Officials and human rights experts from eight countries including Cuba, Austria, Gambia, Laos and Cote d’Ivoire, toured ports, residential communities, schools, museums, and markets to gain a firsthand understanding of China’s approach to improving people’s lives.

A key stop was the Tianjin Sino-Singapore Eco-City in Binhai New Area, a flagship intergovernmental cooperation project between China and Singapore and the world’s first eco-city jointly developed by two countries. Delegates learned how the city combines green urban planning with smart governance to create a livable and sustainable environment. With more than 12 million square meters of green space and a digital governance platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence, the Eco-City monitors environmental indicators in real time while providing efficient public services for residents.

The delegation also visited Tianjin Port’s Beijiang Port Area, home to the world’s first fully intelligent and carbon-neutral container terminal. Powered entirely by renewable energy and supported by technologies including 5G, the Beidou Navigation Satellite System, and autonomous vehicles, the terminal has significantly improved operational efficiency while reducing emissions. Visitors praised the project as an example of how technological innovation can support both economic growth and environmental protection.

Another visit took delegates to the Dazhigu Food Market, where they observed everyday community life and the role of public services in meeting residents’ basic needs. The market’s clean environment and vibrant atmosphere offered a glimpse into grassroots livelihood protection and community well-being.

Many delegates noted the close connection between sustainable development, technological advancement, and human rights protection. Their experiences in Tianjin provided practical examples for discussions in Beijing, enriching exchanges at the forum and contributing to broader global efforts to promote development-centered human rights governance.

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Recognition underscores Longbridge’s pioneering vision as the world’s first AI-native broker, setting a new benchmark for investing in the AI era.

SINGAPORE, Aug. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Longbridge Securities (Singapore) (“Longbridge Singapore”), an AI-powered online brokerage, has been named the winner of the InvestTech Initiative Award – Singapore at the Asian Banking & Finance Fintech Awards 2026.

The award recognises Longbridge Singapore’s sustained investment in AI innovation and its pioneering vision as the world’s first AI-native broker*, bringing together AI and investing in a fundamentally new way.

Organised by Asian Banking & Finance, the ABF Fintech Awards celebrate organisations that are advancing financial technology and reshaping the delivery of financial services across Asia. Longbridge Singapore was recognised for the AI innovations introduced over the past year, reinforcing its commitment to making investing more intuitive, contextual and accessible.

Pioneering a New Model for Investing

AI is changing more than how investors search for information. It is reshaping how they discover opportunities, interpret markets, make decisions and execute trades.

This requires more than adding AI to an existing brokerage. It calls for a fundamentally different model—one where AI is embedded across the entire investing journey, from discovery and research to decision-making and placing orders with investors’ confirmation.

That vision has culminated in the world’s first AI-native broker: an integrated platform where each AI-native product plays a distinct role while working together as one connected investing experience.

At its core is Longbridge AI, the intelligence layer that continuously interprets market developments, understands each investor’s portfolio and surfaces timely, personalised insights. Since its introduction in 2024, Longbridge AI has generated 57.3 million portfolio updates, responded to more than 557,000 investment-related queries and analysed over 28,000 earnings reports in 2025 alone, demonstrating Longbridge’s vision of AI as an integral part of the investing journey rather than a standalone assistant.

That intelligence is brought to life through the Longbridge App, where investors can engage naturally through voice, text and images instead of navigating traditional brokerage workflows.

Beyond the app, Longbridge Skill extends these capabilities into leading AI platforms, allowing investors to access Longbridge’s market intelligence, investment analysis and brokerage capabilities within the AI experiences they already use. Building on this foundation, the Longbridge Agent Platform enables investors to create, customise and deploy their own AI investing agents using natural language, supported by a governance framework with compliance guardrails, transparent disclosures and community ratings.

Together, these products represent a new model for investing — one where AI is no longer a standalone feature, but the intelligence layer connecting every stage of the investing journey while keeping investors firmly in control of every investment decision.

Bringing Investing Into Everyday AI Experiences

“This recognition reflects where we believe investing is headed. As AI becomes a natural part of how people learn, work and make decisions, investing should become just as seamless. Our vision has never been to build another AI assistant, but to embed trusted investing intelligence into the AI experiences people already use, making investing more intuitive, more contextual and more accessible,” Gavin Chia, CEO of Longbridge Securities Singapore and Southeast Asia, said.

“For investors in Singapore, that means institutional-grade investing capabilities delivered through experiences that feel natural, trusted and always keep them in control of every investment decision,” Chia added.

The recognition comes amid continued business momentum for Longbridge.

In 2025, the platform introduced more than 110 new features across 16 product releases, including multi-leg options strategies and recurring investments for US fractional shares.

User assets grew 220% year on year in 2025, following 450% growth in 2024, while the global user base expanded 120%. Total notional trading volume reached US$1.5 trillion across 55.7 million orders processed, and Longbridge ranked among Hong Kong’s fastest-growing fintech brokerages for two consecutive years.

About Longbridge Securities Singapore

Longbridge Securities is an AI-Powered online brokerage headquartered in Singapore. By building global trading infrastructure and a trading network, it delivers best-in-class trading experiences to investors worldwide. Founded in March 2019, Longbridge holds 22 financial regulatory licenses or qualifications across the U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore, and other markets, and has secured more than US$150 million in strategic investment from leading financial institutions and investment firms. Long Bridge Securities Pte. Ltd. is a licensed entity regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) (Capital Markets Services Licence No.: CMS101211), holding a Capital Markets Services Licence and operating under an exempt financial adviser status.

Disclaimer

Long Bridge Securities Pte. Ltd. (“Long Bridge Securities”) (UEN No.: 202111825D) is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and holds a Capital Markets Services Licence for dealing in capital markets products that are securities, collective investment schemes, and exchange-traded derivatives contracts, and is an Exempt Financial Adviser. All investments carry risk. Please refer to the Risk Disclosure Statement on our website for details. This advertisement has not been reviewed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

This commitment to innovation extends beyond AI — Longbridge made history in 2025 by launching the world’s first U.S. stock options pre-market trading, a milestone that underscores its position at the frontier of brokerage technology.

*”AI-Native” is defined as: AI that reshapes the product itself, rather than merely optimizing product efficiency. Based on our research, no other listed retail broker licensed to operate in Hong Kong, Singapore or the United States currently meets this standard.

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The company to invest 35.2 trillion won in Yongin “Y2” fab and 19.1 trillion won in the Cheongju “M17” fabTo execute mid-to-long-term investment strategy… Y2 to open cleanroom in June 2029 and M17 in December 2028 Expand production base for both DRAM and NAND and to increase capacity aligned with customer demand”Strategic investment decision to seize opportunities in line with the market’s growth speed and to contributing to the stability of the global AI semiconductor supply chain.”

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SK hynix Inc. (or “the company”, www.skhynix.com) announced today that it has decided to build new fabs in Yongin and Cheongju to respond to the continuously growing demand for memory in the AI era.

The company approved a total investment of approximately 54 trillion, 35.2 trillion won in Yongin “Y2” fab and 19.1 trillion won in the Cheongju “M17” fab, in a board meeting.

This decision represents execution of the mid-to-long-term investment strategy announced by the company last June. Under its master plan to invest 600 trillion won in the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster and 100 trillion won to expand its Cheongju production base, SK hynix is currently constructing its first fab in Yongin (Y1). With this latest decision, the company is embarking on the construction of subsequent fabs in both Yongin and Cheongju.

According to market research firm Omdia, both DRAM and NAND demand are projected to maintain a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% from last year through 2030. The company views this growth not as a temporary supercycle, but as a structural transformation in which memory transcends its role as a mere component to become core infrastructure determining AI performance itself.

SK hynix stated that in the AI era, technological competitiveness alone is not enough and the ability to supply the required volume at the exact moment customers need it is the ultimate competitive advantage. We reached this investment decision after a thorough review of market demand.

Yongin Y2 is the second of four fabs planned sequentially for the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster. It will serve as a DRAM production base spanning a total floor area of 341,000 pyeong (approximately 1,130,000m2). Construction is scheduled to break ground in July next year, targeting the opening of its first cleanroom in June 2029 to produce high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and other next-generation DRAM products. Meanwhile, construction on Y1 is progressing smoothly toward its initial cleanroom opening target of February next year.

SK hynix previously set a goal to advance the completion date of the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster by 12 years—from the originally planned 2045 to 2033—to finish constructing all four fabs. The Y2 construction serves as the second phase supporting this accelerated timeline and the investment spans to October 2031 sequentially.

The investment amount includes construction costs for “Business Support Building” with administrative and welfare facilities for Y2 personnel, an “Integrated R&D Center” to consolidate product development testing, analysis, and experiments, as well as auxiliary infrastructure[1]..

For the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster—sprawling over approximately 1.26 million pyeong(approximately 4,160,000m2) in Wonsam-myeon, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do—Phase 1 power and water infrastructure required up through Y2 operation is nearing completion, currently at a 99% progress rate. As fab construction and infrastructure setup have been carried out concurrently, the company plans to proceed with the Y2 construction according to schedule.

In the NAND market, demand is surging rapidly centered on enterprise SSDs driven by the full-scale expansion of AI services. This is further boosted by demand for key-value (KV) cache[2] storage in AI inference, with application fields expected to broaden further as Agentic and Physical AI are introduced.

SK hynix selected Cheongju as its new NAND fab base because it offers the fastest fab construction timeline. The Cheongju Campus already houses the M11, M12, and M15 fabs, enabling efficient production linked to existing operations on sites equipped with substantial pre-established power and water infrastructure. Cheongju M17 will be built across a total area of 206,000 pyeong(approximately 680,000m2), breaking ground in February next year with plans to open its first cleanroom in December 2028. The investment period runs through April 2031 according to the master plan.

SK hynix plans to proactively secure production infrastructure based on mid-to-long-term demand discussed with customers, while expanding actual production capacity in alignment with the timing of customer needs. Fabs will be constructed according to the master schedule, whereas cleanroom expansions and equipment installation will take place sequentially in line with demand trends to maximize capital efficiency.

The company expects this investment to secure future growth foundations while strengthening the competitiveness of the domestic semiconductor ecosystem and boosting local economies. The large-scale simultaneous investments in Yongin and Cheongju are anticipated to expand joint growth opportunities for supply chain partners, generate employment, and revitalize local commercial districts, thereby contributing to the sustainable growth of the national economy. 

An SK hynix official stated that “This investment is a decision made to seize opportunities in line with the market’s growth speed. By proactively securing production capabilities, we aim to establish ourselves as a key partner in AI infrastructure, contributing to the stability of the global AI semiconductor supply chain.”

About SK hynix Inc.

SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world’s top-tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (“DRAM”) and flash memory chips (“NAND flash”) for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company’s common shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, its American Depositary Shares are traded on NASDAQ, and its Global Depository Shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.

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