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Neutral Position Drives High-Quality Growth Across All Scenarios: SF Intra-city (9699.HK) Releases Positive Profit Alert for First Half 2026

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HONG KONG, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hangzhou SF Intra-city Industrial Co., Ltd. (“SF Intra-city” or the “Group”; Stock Code: 9699.HK), the largest third-party on-demand delivery service provider in China, is pleased to announce that the Group expects for the six months ended 30 June 2026 (the “Period”): (i) the profit attributable to owners of the Company for the Period is expected to be not less than RMB301 million, representing an increase of not less than 120% as compared with the corresponding period of last year;(ii) the adjusted net profit[1] for the Period is expected to be not less than RMB240 million, representing an increase of not less than 50% as compared with the corresponding period of last year; and(iii) the revenue of the Group for the Period is expected to be not less than RMB11,669 million, representing an increase of not less than 14% as compared with the corresponding period of last year.

The steady growth in the Group’s performance as mentioned above was mainly attributable to: (i) the Group has remained committed to its operating objective of achieving healthy and high-quality development, with both order volume and revenue continuing to grow; (ii) leveraging its positioning as an independent and open third-party platform, together with high-quality and reliable full-scenario fulfilment services, the Group has continued to earn the long-term trust of its customers and deepen its diversified and positive cooperation with customers, driving resilient growth in its business operations; (iii) benefiting from further enhancement of economies of scale, optimisation of resource input strategies, refined rider network operations and the application of AI technologies to improve coordination and efficiency across the value chain from front-end customer acquisition to network operations and back-end resource input, the Group achieved an improvement in gross profit margin, which in turn contributed to profit growth; and (iv) the Group’s core business maintained healthy growth momentum, and the Group’s investment-related income for the Period is also expected to rise.

In the first half of 2026, leveraging its neutral and open service positioning and full-scenario fulfilment capabilities, SF Intra-city catered to diverse demands covering food delivery, on-demand retail, intra-city errand services and terminal logistics, consolidating the Group’s growth foundation. Multiple consumption peaks overlapped in the period, including the 618 Shopping Festival, FIFA World Cup and Dragon Boat Festival. Demand for home shopping, event viewing, cultural tourism and festival gifts surged across all scenarios. During major promotion cycles, the average daily orders of SF Intra-city rose by 20% year-on-year during the 618 shopping promotion period; Exclusive Delivery orders on Dragon Boat Festival surged more than 120% year-on-year, personal delivery orders at major cultural tourism destinations multiplied, and fresh produce orders also climbed substantially. Meanwhile, the Group continued to expand all-round partnerships with live-stream e-commerce platforms, chain brands and private-domain merchants, expanding client coverage via a dual layout of public and private domain channels and achieving diversified upgrading of customer cooperation. It also deepened resource collaboration with SF Holding to provide partner brands with integrated supply chain solutions covering “warehousing + transshipment + intra-city delivery” and assisted the upgrading of traditional logistics systems with its terminal delivery capabilities.

While multi-channel operations maintained positive momentum in the first half of the year, SF Intra-city steadily consolidated its delivery capacity foundation and drove operational efficiency gains via digital and intelligent upgrades. Continued expansion of its footprint in lower-tier markets lifted network-wide order density, driving continuous improvements in average delivery mileage and per-order fulfilment costs. During the period, AI intelligent dispatching achieved full coverage, while unmanned delivery was rolled out at a faster pace, lifting the platform’s overall operational efficiency. The implementation of unmanned delivery technologies and expansion of applicable scenarios moved forward in an orderly fashion, continuously strengthening the Group’s underlying digital and intelligent technology capabilities. The Group’s order volume continued to grow in the first half of the year, enabling full release of economies of scale.

The medium- and long-term outlook for the on-demand delivery industry remains upbeat. Industry data indicates that China’s domestic on-demand retail market size will exceed RMB 1 trillion in 2026. Total order volumes are set to maintain rapid growth, and the “everything delivered to home” trend boasts broad long-term growth potential. As a leading independent third-party on-demand delivery service provider in China, SF Intra-city will continue to capture the dividends of full-scenario fulfilment for local life services, further expand intra-city delivery scenarios, deepen last-mile logistics synergies within the Group, and steadily advance the implementation of digital, intelligent and unmanned delivery technologies. The business is poised to sustain a pattern of high-quality growth.

[1] Adjusted net profit represents profit attributable to owners of the Company excluding share-based compensation expenses, share of profit of a joint venture accounted for using the equity method, fair value changes on financial assets at fair value through profit or loss and the related income tax effects.

About Hangzhou SF Intra-city Industrial Co., Ltd. (Stock code: 9699.HK)

SF Intra-city focuses on the emerging opportunities of intra-city on-demand delivery services. Since 2019, SF Intra-city has operated as an independent legal entity to capture the growth opportunities arising from new consumption trends. SF Intra-city adopts a multi-scenario business model, providing full coverage of delivery scenarios for all types of products and services. The Company’s extensive service coverage, ranging from mature scenarios such as food delivery to growth scenarios such as local retail, local e-commerce and local services, has enabled it to respond to evolving customer needs resulting from the development and upgrading of the local consumer market. For more details, please visit the Company’s website: https://ir.sf-cityrush.com/en/investor-relations/

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Tripo AI Releases Latest Model Tripo P2.0, Advancing AI 3D Generation with Production-Ready Assets

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tripo AI unveiled Tripo P2.0, its latest 3D-native foundation model enabling high-fidelity 3D assets generation with quad topology, marking a major breakthrough in generative 3D.

As an upgrade from Tripo Smart Mesh P1.0, P2.0 brings native quad mesh generation, a first for the AI 3D industry, representing a major advance in AI-powered 3D content creation. The model allows 3D creators to move AI-generated 3D content seamlessly into production, addressing one of the longstanding challenges in AI 3D generation.

Following the release of P2.0 Preview in August, the official launch of P2.0 added two new features: multiple versions generation per prompt and Mesh Edit. The model makes it easier than ever for creators to edit, rig, animate and integrate AI generated characters and props into production pipelines.

“Topology has been the wall between AI-generated 3D and real production: game and film pipelines are built on quad meshes, and until now AI got there only through slow, unstable retopology. P2.0 can quickly generate quad-dominant meshes natively, with clean part separation and the edge flow an artist would lay out manually. Production-ready is today’s bar; the longer-term goal for Tripo is to build models that understand, generate and interact with 3D environments,” says Dr. Yanpei Cao, Chief Scientist of Tripo AI.

The model supports both triangle- and quad-based 3D assets generation, offering up to 50,000 faces for triangle topology and up to 25,000 faces for quad topology. With one single prompt, P2.0 allows generation of a maximum of four versions of the same asset with different face counts, giving creators greater flexibility to produce assets with varying levels of complexity and details.

The newly added Mesh Edit feature gives creators direct control over the result. They can select and regenerate any region of a mesh without altering the rest of the asset. Instead of regenerating the whole asset and hoping for a better outcome, creators can refine the asset more precisely, step by step.

The model offers front, back, left and right views of the generated assets, allowing them to closely match users’ intentions.

P2.0 also supports Smart UV which enables creators to unwrap 3D assets into a 2D layout with a single click, making it easier for texturing and further editing.

Designed for games and interactive experiences, Smart Mesh P2.0 helps 3D artists, technical artists and game developers create assets ready for production. It is particularly well suited to generating game characters, hard surface objects such as vehicles, props and buildings, as well as creating 3D assets at scale.

About Tripo AI

Tripo AI is a global leader in the development of 3D-native foundation models and world models. Founded in 2023 by leading scientists in AI and computer graphics, the company has developed a comprehensive end-to-end product ecosystem, built around its proprietary 3D-native foundation models and world models. With Tripo Studio and Tripo API, Tripo AI has transformed 3D generation. Powered by a world-class AI 3D research team, the company is advancing AI toward understanding, generating, and interacting with 3D environments.

Tripo AI’s models and products have been widely adopted by individual users and enterprises globally, serving industries including intelligent manufacturing, virtual reality, interactive entertainment, and embodied AI, empowering enterprises to unlock new productivity and scale applications of generative 3D.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Chinese solutions for meteorological early-warning help more countries tackle climate challenges

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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2026 /CNW/ — For millennia, as her believers believe, the traditional Chinese sea goddess Mazu has been blessing safe voyages. Now, Chinese meteorological early-warning solutions named after her are helping more countries prevent meteorological disasters.

“MAZU”, released by the China Meteorological Administration at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), is a set of China’s homegrown AI-enabled meteorological solutions featuring universal multi-hazard early warning, alerting and zero-gap coverage.

Supporting cloud-based trials in more than 40 countries, “MAZU” has been applied in countries including Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Solomon Islands, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Djibouti, rapidly expanding its global presence.

As the first set of solutions under the UN Early Warnings for All initiative, “MAZU” integrates AI-based meteorological early-warning models, Fengyun meteorological satellite data, multi-source monitoring products and cloud computing power.

In May this year, “MAZU” was recommended by the World Meteorological Organization at the 11th Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals held at UN headquarters in New York.

Unsurprisingly, “MAZU” caters to the demand for both menu-style solution offerings and highly flexible customized solutions to help relevant countries prevent meteorological disasters caused by climate change.

In Pakistan, where monsoons and rainstorms usually cause torrential floods, an early-warning system co-developed by China and Pakistan was formally embedded in relevant platforms of Pakistan’s meteorological authority.

In Ethiopia, Chinese experts leveraged the integration of data from China’s Fengyun meteorological satellites and local meteorological stations to help local weather forecasters generate high-precision nowcasts via the Fenglei and Fengqing AI models.

In Sri Lanka, the meteorological bureau of southeast China’s Fujian Province is assisting the country in achieving high spatiotemporal resolution precipitation and temperature forecasting.

Apart from the application cases of “MAZU”, nearly 1,000 people from more than 100 developing countries and regions have come to China to receive technology training focused on early warning.

As China is a crucial partner of the Early Warnings for All initiative, its platforms, satellites and AI models have helped dozens of countries enhance their early-warning capacities, noted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the 2026 WAIC.

Such a mode of cooperation, involving technology transfer, joint R&D and local capacity building to help developing countries better protect their people, is exactly what the world needs now, added Guterres.

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Xinhua Silk Road: “My City, My Home” global visual submission campaign kicks off in Fuzhou for World Cities Day

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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A global call for “My City, My Home” visual submission campaign for the upcoming World Cities Day has officially kicked off in Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, inviting people around the world to submit photos and short videos to share stories of urban development.

World Cities Day, celebrated annually on October 31 since 2014, is the first UN-designated international day dedicated to cities. Fuzhou will host the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2026.

As part of the Observance, the “My City, My Home” campaign aims to enhance the global influence of World Cities Day, encourage greater public participation, and promote the concept of sustainable urban development through a campaign open to everyone.

According to the announcement for the campaign, individuals, families, communities, schools, social organizations and other groups are all welcome to participate. The submissions should closely reflect the annual theme of this year’s World Cities Day — Regenerating the City: Adequate Housing for All.

Participants should form a square frame with the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to frame scenes that showcase the livability and renewal of their cities, and then take photos or short videos. This signature gesture symbolizes houses that shelter people, evokes the outline of early walled cities, and represents a perspective through which to capture the beauty of cities.

Participants are encouraged to start their videos with opening lines such as “This is my city”. They are also encouraged to include in their photos and videos an introduction to the city and the filming location, the reasons why the selected scene reflects urban regeneration or livability, and personal stories related to the city.

The submission period runs from the date of publication until 11:59 p.m. on October 14 (Beijing Time). Photos and videos may be submitted via Douyin or to the designated email address Mycitymyhome@outlook.com .

Photos and videos may be submitted in either 9:16 vertical or 16:9 horizontal format. Each video should be at least 5 seconds long.

Outstanding submissions will be selected for inclusion in the official campaign video, which will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2026 in Fuzhou on October 31.

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