Combining Diverse Activities in Sports Tech to Help Youth Fulfil Their Potential

HONG KONG, Sept. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As one of the highlight events of 2025 youthfest@HK, “YS School Cultural Festival 2025” featured both summer and winter editions. The summer edition kicked off with a focus on basketball, introducing a series of exciting activities that combine urban sports, dance, and art elements to inject positive energy into the city. The summer edition “SWISH! YS Basketball Fest” took place in mid-August, introduced sports technology for the first time, the event used artificial intelligence to create a brand-new experience for young people and enhance their sports performance.

Youth Actively Participate in a Series of Exciting Activities to Create Their MAX Level Formula
“YS School Cultural Festival 2025” carries the theme of “Creating My MAX Level Formula”, which encourages young people to unleash their fullest potential through diversified development and exploration, crafting their unique growth journey and exploring their new frontiers with positivity and pioneering spirit. The series of exciting activities of “SWISH! YS Basketball Fest” are now in full swing, attracting numerous young participants, including the highly anticipated return of the “3 on 3” YS Summer Basketball Competition, a three-day two-night Greater Bay Area Basketball Camp, a basketball-themed exhibition, Sports & Chill-experienced workshops, and a basketball challenge arena. The unique photo spots set up inside the venue have been well received by public, including a 3-meter-tall giant inflatable basketball installation and a feature jersey display wall.

Sports & Chill-experienced Workshops (15-20 August) Enhancing Sports Performance Through Technology, Leaving Participants Inspired
This year marks the first integration of sports technology and artificial intelligence, the event offering young people a groundbreaking sports experience. The professional tutors utilised advanced equipment to analyse participants’ jumping ability, while AI technology automatically detected shooting posture and provided precise as well as personalised guidance. These innovations helped young basketball enthusiasts to improve their explosiveness and refine their shooting technique, boosting scoring accuracy. The basketball training workshops featured elite instructors, including Lee Ki, a renowned sharpshooter, Hong Kong A1 League basketball player and assistant coach of the Hong Kong Men’s National Basketball Team and Liang Man Hung, celebrated basketball figure and head coach of Hong Kong A1 League basketball team Tycoon. Participants gained valuable skills in offensive techniques, ball control, team strategies, and signature basketball moves. To further energise the community, a cheerleading experience workshop was also held, promoting dancing skill and the positive spirit of cheerleading to the society. Meanwhile, the Sports x Arts workshop combined creativity with sustainability, allowing participants to craft personalised card holders using recycled basketball leather. Adding a stylish twist, the jersey workshop enabled participants to heat-press their own personalised jerseys, creating a unique and fashionable sports identity.

YS Summer Basketball Competition (16-17, 23–24 August) A Strong Lineup of Young Players, Demonstrating Their Full Potential in Spirited Competition
3on3 basketball competition is one of the star attractions of the event. The competition featured junior and youth categories, divided into men and women groups. Professional basketball players from Oltron Basketball which is a professional basketball team in Macau and had participated in the “Super3 League”, including Fang Xiao Qiang, Sun Li Chen, Li Kuan Ting, along with Sun Ming Ze were invited in the exchange session with Duncan Reid, Fong Shing Yee, Cheung Kwok Chuen and Chan Wai Pong, the basketball players from Hong Kong A1 League basketball team Tycoon on 24 August. All talented basketball players were gathered at Youth Square to deepen youngsters’ understanding of sports careers and promote urban sports in Hong Kong. The event also featured cheerleading performance to energise the players, showcasing the vibrant energy and talent of the youths on stage, and spreading positive vibes.

Basketball-Themed Exhibition (16 August – 30 September) Over a Dozen Signed NBA and Hong Kong Memorabilia on Display
Basketball fans are in for a treat with the immersive Basketball-Themed Exhibition, designed to captivate young enthusiasts through a star-studded showcase. The exhibition features over a dozen signed collectibles from legendary NBA and Hong Kong basketball players, elevating the experience to a truly premium level. Highlights include signed jerseys, shoes, and basketballs from NBA icons such as Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell, Dennis Rodman, Gary Payton, Jeremy Lin, Yi Jian Lian, and Jordan Clarkson. Apart from that, a dedicated Hong Kong Basketball Players Zone is also featured, displaying jerseys from professional and Hong Kong A1 League basketball players including Ricky Yang, Chan Siu Wing, Glen Joe, Liang Man Hung, and Fong Shing Yee. A rare gem in the collection is the signed commemorative jerseys of Winling Basketball Club, which representing the champions of the Hong Kong A1 Division Championship for three consecutive years (2009 – 2011), a must-see for basketball lovers.

Basketball Challenge Arena (16 August – 30 September) Test Your Limits
The Basketball Challenge Arena invites young individuals to test their skills through a series of exciting basketball challenges. Players must complete three key tasks—dribbling through obstacles, precision passing, and layup execution—to win attractive prizes. The challenge not only evaluates all-round basketball techniques but also emphasises speed and accuracy, encouraging participants to push their limits. Those who successfully completed the challenge and made it onto the leaderboard would receive a special gift, adding an extra layer of excitement to the experience.

Greater Bay Area Basketball Camp (22–24 August) with Professional Guidance from coach Milos Milosevic on Game Tactics and Encouragement from Mr. Chan Sui-wai, Eric, JP, Commissioner for Youth
A three-day two-night summer camp that brought together young people from the Greater Bay Area has successfully concluded. Led by the professional basketball coach Milos Milosevic from Serbia, he selflessly shared his expertise, providing professional guidance on game tactics to participants, fostering basketball cultural exchange among the youth from Greater Bay Area. The event was also graced by the presence of Mr. Chan Sui-wai, Eric, JP, Commissioner for Youth, Home and Youth Affairs Bureau to motivate the young players. During the exchange session, he encouraged the youth to embrace challenges and adversity, maintain a positive mindset, identify the goals and chart their own course, have diverse development.

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YS School Cultural Festival 2025
The “YS School Cultural Festival 2025” aims to provide young people with platforms and spaces to explore their potential and break boundaries. Youth Square encourages young people to unleash their fullest potential through diversified development and exploration, crafting their unique growth journey and exploring their new frontiers with positivity and pioneering spirit. The spirit of youth progress is precisely the driving force behind social innovation. The “YS School Cultural Festival 2025” hopes to inject abundant positive energy into society by showcasing the positive power of young people.

About Youth Square
Youth Square is a government venue, and a youth development initiative launched by the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau. Facilities include the 643-seat Y Theatre, Y Studio, Y Platform, multi-purpose area, office, retail shop and the Y loft which has 148 guest rooms. Youth Square has been conducting events under various themes, including music, dance, arts and culture.

We welcome youth to use our facilities and participate in our activities. As the “Youth Development Blueprint” has pinpointed its vision to nurture a new generation of young people with an affection for our country and Hong Kong and equipped with global perspective, an aspiring mind-set and positive thinking, cherishing hope for the future and strive for continuous growth, so that they can unleash their full potential in society and contribute to Hong Kong, our country and the world.

Official website: http://www.youthsquare.hk

Y Loft
Y Loft is conveniently located, 3-minute walk from Chai Wan MTR Station. The 148-room Y Loft is located in Youth Square’s Main Block and Hostel Block. Room selection includes Twin, Twin Room with Balcony, Triple, House of Six, Duplex and Accessible Rooms. Accessible Rooms, with widened corridor and more space, are designed to deliver the same comfort and peace of mind to visitors with disabilities.

HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, Sept. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Hang Seng Indexes Company recently announced the 2025 sustainability ratings for listed companies. Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (“Ping An” or the “Group”; HKEX: 2318; SSE: 601318) has been upgraded from “A-” to “A” in recognition of its outstanding achievements in sustainable development. This upgrade fully demonstrates Ping An’s continued progress and industry-leading position in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. 

Since 2014, Hang Seng has annually assessed the sustainability performance of listed companies. The latest review covered approximately 500 Hong Kong-listed constituents of the Hang Seng Composite Index and over 1,300 A-share constituents of the Hang Seng China A (Investable) Index. The evaluation framework is based on the three core pillars of environmental, social, and governance, using both general and industry-specific criteria with weightings adapted to different sector characteristics.

Key Results:

• Ping An (601318) placed in the top 10% among China A-share (Investable) index constituents, with both corporate governance and environmental performance ranking in the top 10% of all companies assessed.
• Ping An (02318) ranked in the top 30% among H-share constituents and in the top 20% within the financial industry. Its environmental metrics were in the top 10%, and corporate governance in the top 20%.

Robust Governance Drives Stable Growth and Over a Decade of Dividend Growth

With 37 years of operations, Ping An has established a clear board positioning, a professional board structure, and standardized operating procedures to ensure the Group’s long-term, stable, and rapid growth. The Group is committed to creating value for all stakeholders, including customers, shareholders, employees, and society. In the first half of 2025, Ping An maintained solid business operations, demonstrating strong resilience and innovation. The Group achieved an operating profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 77.732 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%. Cash dividend continued to rise, with an interim dividend of RMB0.95 per share, up 2.2% year-on-year. The Company’s dividend has now grown for more than ten consecutive years, underscoring Ping An’s commitment to rewarding shareholders and creating long-term value.

Deepened “Integrated Finance + Health and Senior Care” Strategy to Meet Senior Care Demands

With China’s aging population, customer’s needs for wealth management, health and senior care services is diversifying. Ping An continues to deepen its “integrated finance + health and senior care” strategy, providing one-stop services including wealth management, insurance protection, and consumer credit through its “one customer, multiple accounts, multiple products, and one-stop services” model. As of June 30, 2025, the Group had nearly 247 million retail customers, with an average of 2.94 contracts per customer; 26.6% of customers held four or more contracts with Ping An. In addition to traditional insurance, Ping An is actively integrating medical and senior care resources to manage customer health and provide cost-effective services. As of June 30, 2025, nearly 63% of customers were also entitled to service benefits in the health and senior care ecosystem. In the first half of 2025, over 13 million Ping An Life customers used health management services. Nearly 210,000 customers were entitled to home-based senior care services, which covered 85 cities nationwide.

Committed to Green Development and Low-carbon Transition

Ping An actively promotes green and low-carbon development, leveraging insurance, credit, and investment to support green industries and industrial transformation. As of June 30, 2025, Ping An’s green investment of insurance funds reached RMB144.482 billion, and its green loan balance stood at RMB251.746 billion. In the first half of 2025, green insurance premium income totaled RMB35.836 billion. The Company also actively promotes green operations to meet its carbon neutrality goals. In the first half of 2025, Ping An’s operational carbon emissions decreased by 13,000 tons year-on-year, with total greenhouse gas emissions at approximately 195,000 tons of CO2 equivalent, a 11% reduction year-on-year.

Empowered Risk Reduction and Enhanced Service Efficiency with Technology

To address the increasing frequency of extreme weather and natural disasters caused by climate change, Ping An P&C launched its proprietary “EagleX” risk mitigation platform in 2017. The platform pioneers the use of big data, meteorological disaster models, satellite remote sensing, and machine learning, integrating over 2 trillion data points covering geography, disasters, meteorology, and insurance. It assesses risks of nine types of natural disasters, including typhoons and extreme rainfall, and provides 15 types of disaster alerts. Since its launch, the platform has been widely applied across various insurance lines, including agricultural, property, and auto insurance, effectively helping governments, businesses, and individuals reduce disaster-related losses by hundreds of millions of RMB. In the first half of 2025, the “EagleX” system issued warnings for 259,000 disasters and sent 4.26 billion alert messages, covering 64.02 million corporate and individual customers.

Fulfilled Social Responsibility and Supported Community Development

Ping An leveraged its “integrated finance + health and senior care” capabilities to support rural revitalization in the key areas of industry, health, and education. In the first half of 2025, Ping An provided funding amounted to RMB32.809 billion for rural industrial vitalization. The Group also invested heavily in public welfare and volunteer activities. The “San Cun Hui” welfare platform has 3.51 million registered users, including over 490,000 Ping An employees and agent volunteers. In the first half of 2025, “San Cun Hui” initiated 1,033 public welfare activities.

Sustainable development remains a cornerstone of Ping An’s development strategy and core competitiveness. The Group will continue to focus on customer needs, deepen its “integrated finance + health and senior care” dual-pronged strategy, enhance corporate governance and risk management, and actively promote green and low-carbon initiatives to drive sustainable development for both the Group and society. Ping An is committed to creating long-term and steady value for its customers, employees, shareholders, and society.

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About Ping An Group

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (HKEx:2318 / 82318; SSE:601318) is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. It strives to become a world-leading provider of integrated finance, health and senior care services. Under the technology-driven “integrated finance + health and senior care” strategy, the Group provides professional “financial advisory, family doctor, and senior care concierge” services to its nearly 247 million retail customers. Ping An advances intelligent digital transformation and employs technologies to improve financial businesses’ quality and efficiency and enhance risk management. The Group is listed on the stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai. As of the end of December 2024, Ping An had more than RMB12 trillion in total assets. The Group ranked 27^th in the Forbes Global 2000 list in 2025 and 47^th in the Fortune Global 500 list in 2025. 

For more information, please visit www.group.pingan.com and follow us on LinkedIn – PING AN.

POTSDAM, Germany, Sept. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Data4Life announces that the Hasso Plattner Foundation, as the supporting foundation of the organization, has appointed Dr. Ben Illigens as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He succeeds Christian Weiss, who has shaped the development phase of Data4Life since 2017 and will continue to advise the organization in a consulting role.

With more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of clinical research, digital transformation, and global health initiatives, Dr. Illigens brings extensive expertise in neurology, oncology, digital health strategies, and data integration. His focus is on leveraging health data to advance precision medicine and public health—fully aligned with Data4Life’s mission.

“Digital technologies and artificial intelligence are fundamentally transforming health research and care. They hold enormous promise but also raise important questions of ethics, equity, and bias. My goal is to strengthen Data4Life as a bridge between clinical research, technology, and practice, ensuring that innovations are implemented fairly, responsibly, and sustainably,” said Dr. Ben Illigens.

Dr. Rouven Westphal, member of the Executive Board of the Hasso Plattner Foundation, added:

“Christian Weiss has made an important contribution to building Data4Life and establishing the organization within the digital health ecosystem. We are deeply grateful to him. With the appointment of Dr. Ben Illigens, we are ensuring that Data4Life can take the next steps in its development and further expand its international role.”

Strategic Focus of Data4Life

Data4Life aims to make health research more efficient, transparent, and inclusive. Its priorities include:

• Expanding Data2Evidence as an international open-source platform
• Advancing D4L Collect for the standardized, interoperable collection of wearable data, Clinical Outcome Assessments (COAs), and Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs)
• Actively contributing to the OHDSI community to promote open standards and tools for global scientific collaboration

Since 2017, Data4Life has been collaborating with leading institutions such as Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam to accelerate the translation of research results into clinical practice.

About Data4Life

The D4L data4life gGmbH is a nonprofit health tech organization founded in 2017 and headquartered in Potsdam, Germany. It is funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation as sole shareholder. Data4Life’s mission is to make health data available for research in the fields of public health and precision medicine, with the goal of significantly improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

More information: www.data4life.care

About Hasso Plattner Foundation

The Hasso Plattner Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Potsdam. It was founded in 2015 by Hasso Plattner. The foundation is active in the fields of science and education, social affairs and nature conservation, as well as art and culture. Among other initiatives, it supports the Hasso Plattner Institute as an independent Faculty of Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam, cultural institutions in Potsdam such as the Museum Barberini and DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, as well as projects on the African continent and international education initiatives.

More information: www.plattnerfoundation.org/en/ 

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Daniela Wilberg
media@data4life.care
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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ZEEKR Intelligent Technology Holding Limited (“Zeekr Group” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ZK), the world’s leading premium new energy vehicle group, today announced its delivery results for August 2025.

In August, Zeekr Group delivered a total of 44,843 vehicles across its Zeekr and Lynk & Co brands, reflecting increases of 10.6% year-over-year and 1.5% compared to the previous month. Specifically, the Zeekr brand delivered 17,626 vehicles, while Lynk & Co delivered 27,217 vehicles. This achievement was made possible by the trust and support of over 2 million cumulative users.

About Zeekr Group

Zeekr Group, headquartered in Zhejiang, China, is the world’s leading premium new energy vehicle group from Geely Holding Group. With two brands, Lynk & Co and Zeekr, Zeekr Group aims to create a fully integrated user ecosystem with innovation as a standard. Utilizing its state-of-the-art facilities and world-class expertise, Zeekr Group is developing its own software systems, e-powertrain and electric vehicle supply chain. Zeekr Group’s values are equality, diversity, and sustainability. Its ambition is to become a true global new energy mobility solution provider.

For more information, please visit https://ir.zeekrgroup.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

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Investor Relations Contact

In China:

ZEEKR Intelligent Technology Holding Limited
Investor Relations
Email: ir@zeekrlife.com

Piacente Financial Communications
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
Email: Zeekr@thepiacentegroup.com

In the United States:

Piacente Financial Communications
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
Email: Zeekr@thepiacentegroup.com

Media Contact

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