BEIJING, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, at a closed-door seminar themed “Chinese Companies Going Global: An Open World, Coexistence and Co-prosperity,” held during the Beike Finance Annual Conference, Simon Lan, Co-founder of eclicktech, said that fluctuations in China–U.S. tariff policies have had a limited impact on service-trade sectors such as gaming and short-form dramas. He said this has created a favorable window for companies in these industries to accelerate overseas growth. Meanwhile, rapid shifts in the global geopolitical landscape are also encouraging companies already operating abroad to diversify beyond the U.S. market and tap into new growth opportunities across broader regions.

Lan said that amid ongoing uncertainties in global expansion, companies must work together—not only with one another, but also with Chinese enterprises at home—to better understand and address the genuine needs of local consumers. “Only through such collaboration can companies build sustainable operations, achieve long-term profitability, and strengthen their foothold in local markets,” he said.

As more Chinese companies expand into emerging markets such as South America and the Middle East, Lan said he favors strategies focused on deepening engagement within a specific region. “When a company truly commits to one market and its products solve real local needs, it builds lasting competitiveness and resilience,” he said. “Even amid factors such as trade disputes, local consumers will still be willing to pay for products that deliver genuine value.”

Using headphone exports as an example, Lan said that if higher tariffs were to reduce sales, companies could shift their approach by enhancing the product’s value proposition—for instance, developing and selling AI-powered headphones. “In the United States, Spanish-speaking users, including those of Mexican heritage, account for roughly 20% of the population. If a headset can provide AI-enabled features such as real-time translation between Spanish and English, it significantly increases perceived value, helps offset the impact of tariffs, and protects business profitability,” he said.

Lan said that many employees relocate with their families and take root in local communities, investing in long-term market development. “These companies are effectively becoming local players,” he said. “When local governments see that a company meets compliance requirements and contributes through taxes and job creation, they are more willing to provide support.”

GUANGZHOU, China and SHENZHEN, China and HONG KONG, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On March 31, OnTime, a leading mobility technology and service company in China, announced its annual results for the fiscal year 2025. During the reporting period, the company’s key financial metrics showed broad-based improvement, with total revenue reaching RMB5.286 billion, a year-on-year increase of 114.6%. Annual order volume and transaction value both more than doubled, while net profit improved by 48.1%. Gross profit for the period stood at RMB628 million, up 395.3% from a year earlier, with gross margin doubling to 11.9%.

The results reflect OnTime’s dual strengths of rapid business expansion and sustained operational improvement. The company’s core ride-hailing business continued to expand steadily, with order volume climbing 106.2%. Technology services revenue surged 487.4%, with a gross margin of 14.8%. The Robotaxi business scaled up operations, and AI data services have moved into commercial deployment across a range of scenarios, forming a new driver of future growth for the company.

Strong Performance Growth and Improved Profitability
Revenue Up 114.6%, Gross Profit Nearly Quintuples

Total revenue rose from RMB2.463 billion in 2024 to RMB5.286 billion, an increase of 114.6%. This performance was driven largely by deeper partnerships with third-party mobility platforms, as well as its regional expansion, which increased transaction value for mobility services from RMB2.979 billion to RMB6.426 billion.

Notably, the company’s profitability saw a significant improvement in 2025. Gross profit rose from RMB127 million in 2024 to RMB628 million, a year-on-year increase of 395.3%. Gross margin expanded from 5.1% to 11.9%, a jump of 6.8 percentage points, while net profit improved by 48.1%.

OnTime’s main businesses include mobility services, technology services (including AI data and model solutions and high-precision maps), and vehicle sales and maintenance services. All three segments recorded double-digit gross margins in 2025.

The company noted that higher user traffic, which drove increased order volume, together with other factors, contributed to the improvement in gross margin for mobility services from 5.0% to 11.7%.

Economies of Scale Drive Operational Efficiency Gains
Order Volume and Transaction Value Double; Multiple Expense Items Post Double-Digit Declines

Data show that in 2025, OnTime’s core business operations recorded broad-based momentum. For mobility services, annual order volume reached 233 million, up 106.2% year-on-year. Transaction value rose to RMB6.426 billion, a roughly 115.7% gain, while average transaction value per order edged up from RMB26.4 to RMB27.6.

As the company’s main revenue source, mobility services generated RMB5.097 billion in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 131.8%. These figures reflect how OnTime—focusing on core markets through a “ripple model,” enhancing operational efficiency, and replicating that model in new regions—is delivering measurable commercial results.

Even as the business scaled rapidly, OnTime continued to strengthen cost controls, with multiple expense lines declining by double digits—a sign that scale is already translating into operational leverage. According to the announcement, general and administrative expenses fell 18.1% year on year to RMB111 million, while finance costs dropped 48.9% to RMB905,000.

Robotaxi Fleet Expands Significantly
AI + Data Emerges as New Growth Engine

As part of OnTime’s second growth curve, the Robotaxi business made significant progress in 2025. The company operates a hybrid model combining traditional ride-hailing with Robotaxi services, ensuring a consistent user experience while enabling the commercial deployment of autonomous driving technology.

On March 19, OnTime announced a major upgrade to its Robotaxi operations, with the fleet it oversees growing to approximately 600 vehicles. Under its “Robotaxi+” plan, OnTime intends to collaborate with partners to build a Robotaxi fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles over the next five years, extend operations to 100 cities, and invest RMB1 billion to establish 1,000 maintenance networks across those cities to support the operation and maintenance of up to 100,000 Robotaxis.

OnTime’s technology services business posted revenue of RMB160 million, a substantial year-on-year increase of 487.4%, making it the company’s fastest-growing business segment, with a gross margin of 14.8%.

According to company disclosures, AI data service products and solutions accounted for the majority of the revenue in this segment.

OnTime Data, a full-stack AI data production, service and management platform, has already been deployed across AI use cases in several key industries, including autonomous driving, intelligent cockpits, large language models, consumer electronics, financial services, healthcare, and research.

OnTime said it will continue to channel resources into its technology services business, supporting the company’s long–term growth.

NINGDONG, China, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On March 27th, to meet the construction needs of the Yizheng Chemical Fiber user connection project, State Grid Ningdong Power Co., Ltd. organized Party member backbones from the construction sector to carry out a themed Party Day activity. They conducted an in-depth re-survey of the project route on-site and advanced the preparation of construction drawings simultaneously, deeply integrating Party building initiatives with on-site project construction to further accelerate the implementation progress of the Yizheng Chemical Fiber project.

The Yizheng Chemical Fiber project is a key investment promotion project supported and guaranteed by the autonomous region and the Ningdong Base Management Committee. Its cable route needs to cross the Changshang Line of Ningdong Railway, then run along the east side of Zhongtai Furui Technology Co., Ltd. to the north side of Guoneng Avenue, pass through the reserved square culvert to the south side, and then lay along the planned steam pipe gallery bridge of Yizheng Chemical Fiber to the newly-built cable well outside the user’s wall. The project route is complex, involving multiple coordinating units, and requires multi-party collaboration in project advancement and construction technology.

Since the convening of the User Supporting Project Promotion Meeting by the Ningdong Base Management Committee, the company has responded promptly to the meeting arrangements. Focusing on the time node requirements of the project supporting works, the company has taken “Party Building + Infrastructure Construction” as the starting point and actively integrated into the project promotion working group of the Ningdong Base. It has established a government-enterprise joint construction and coordination mechanism with units such as the Construction and Transportation Bureau, Economic Development Bureau, and Natural Resources Bureau, integrating the handling of preliminary procedures for power supporting projects with the overall project approval process in both planning and advancement, and optimizing the handling links from the source.

After the start of the feasibility study, the company organized Party member technical personnel to conduct on-site investigation and surveying, accurately aligned with the needs of the Construction and Transportation Bureau, and comprehensively planned the construction of power lines together with the supporting pipe galleries and road construction of the project. It has strengthened collaborative cooperation with units such as Great Wall Water Affairs, Investment Company, and Pipe Gallery Company, accurately connected the power demand during the project’s construction period, commissioning period and production period, planned the power grid load allocation in advance, and took the initiative to optimize the pipeline connection design. This promotes the synchronous planning and implementation of power pipelines and pipe galleries, avoids pipeline conflicts and secondary excavation from the source, ensures the seamless connection of various processes, and effectively improves the overall construction efficiency of the project.

A Read-Only Isolation architecture that plugs compliance into institutional AI workflows — enabling instant financial reporting and proactive risk audits without touching funds.

SINGAPORE, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Safeheron, a leading open-source digital asset self-custody platform, today launched AI Connect. Powered by Remote MCP (Model Context Protocol), AI Connect connects institutional digital asset operations with AI workflows, transforming AI from a passive assistant into a proactive, security-aware data hub.

As the industry converges on one truth — “code is cheap; compliance is the moat” — institutions want AI-driven efficiency but fear hallucinations and unauthorized fund access. AI Connect solves this by acting as a compliance socket for existing AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, enabling deep data access under strict Read-Only Isolation.

“In the AI era, the greatest risk to digital assets comes not only from internal or external bad actors, but equally from AI with excessive permissions,” said CEO Wade Wang. “AI Connect redefines trust: it doesn’t touch your money, but it helps your team protect and manage it far more effectively.”

Key Highlights:

• Proactive Security & Policy Audits: Using natural language commands, teams can trigger AI analysis of recent transactions to surface stop-loss risks, whitelist anomalies, and potential threats before they escalate.
• Instant Custom Financial Reports: AI Connect aggregates platform data and generates Markdown documents, structured tables, or charts on demand — eliminating manual exports for CFOs and finance teams.
• Enterprise-Grade Compliance: Built on Safeheron’s SOC2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified RBAC architecture, AI permissions are strictly bound to the operator’s access level. No employee access means no AI access.
• Open-Source Safeheron Skill: Developers using Cursor or Claude Code can generate multi-language SDK code (Java, Python, Go, JS) via natural language, with built-in best practices for transactions and Webhook verification.

The launch of AI Connect marks a new chapter in Safeheron’s institutional digital asset management journey. As AI permeates every financial workflow, Safeheron is committed to ensuring that AI-driven operations remain proactive, compliant, and bank-grade secure. AI Connect will continue to evolve, expanding its MCP capability toolkit to deliver deeper intelligent insights across every facet of institutional operations.

To learn more about Safeheron AI Connect, visit Safeheron.