According to a post on the Xiong'an Release WeChat public account, on November 11, Zhang Guohua, member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Party Secretary and Director of the Xiong'an New Area Party Working Committee and Management Committee, visited PDD Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PDD) to inspect the company's presence and surrounding support facilities, and convened an on-site meeting.

Zhang Guohua visited PDD Information Technology Services (Xiong'an) Co., Ltd., where he inspected the office environment and surrounding supporting facilities on site and gained a detailed understanding of the company's development needs.

He noted that PDD Holdings Inc, as a well-known domestic internet enterprise, established a dedicated Xiong'an company at exactly the right time, providing the company with an opportunity to integrate into the broader Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy and expand its own development space, while also injecting vitality into Xiong'an's efforts to gather market resources and advance internationalization. He expressed hope that PDD Holdings Inc would further strengthen its development confidence, leverage its advantages in digital economy resources, deeply participate in Xiong'an's reform and innovation practices, and achieve high-quality corporate development while serving the implementation of major national strategies.

Subsequently, Zhang Guohua chaired an on-site meeting, during which Zhu Zheng, Executive President of PDD Holdings Inc and President of Xinpinmu, expressed gratitude for the long-term care and support given to PDD Holdings Inc by the Xiong'an New Area Party Working Committee and Management Committee, and briefly introduced the company's operations. He stated that PDD Holdings Inc adheres to the philosophy of taking root in Xiong'an and serving Xiong'an, focusing on core businesses such as platform product compliance review, data annotation and analysis, and intelligent transformation of traditional industry data, continuously increasing investment in facility construction and personnel recruitment, striving to set a benchmark for promoting high-quality employment, and taking concrete actions to support Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development. PDD Holdings Inc will continue to solidify its core businesses, engage in deep strategic cooperation with Xiong'an in digital services, explore new business formats and scenarios such as cross-border operations, empower the digital transformation of local industries, and contribute to advancing the construction of Xiong'an New Area as a modern city with high standards and high quality.

Relevant departments spoke on topics including PDD Holdings Inc's business layout and policy environment, local services, public services, and housing security.

After listening to everyone's remarks, Zhang Guohua pointed out that PDD Holdings Inc has taken the initiative and acted proactively, with substantial investment and rapid implementation, and through a series of concrete arrangements has become the private enterprise with the largest employee scale in Xiong'an, playing a demonstrative role in promoting private economy participation in Xiong'an's construction and development. He said the prospects for cooperation between the two sides are very broad and will certainly be highly promising. He emphasized the need to focus on the functional layout of a regional headquarters, expand the core business segments already established, leverage the chain-leader role of the digital economy platform, and drive chain development and cluster formation to create a benchmark for digital economy innovation and development in North China. He called for focusing on the integrated development of education, science and technology talent, and industry, utilizing the resource advantages of relocated central state-owned enterprises and universities as well as the platform advantages of Xiong'an Zhongguancun Science Park and the artificial intelligence training base to attract and cultivate high-end professional talent and build collaborative innovation networks. He also stressed the need to focus on strengthening counties and enriching the people through industry, carrying out targeted skills training and career advancement programs, and promoting local employment and income growth. He further emphasized focusing on openness and innovation leadership, increasing the layout of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses, and cross-border digital trade to help Xiong'an enhance its international influence. All relevant departments in Xiong'an must make every effort to provide service guarantees, adhere to problem-oriented and demand-oriented approaches, optimize supporting functions, and wholeheartedly help enterprises resolve difficulties, so that employees feel it is very convenient, safe, and comfortable, and enterprises can better take root and develop.

Previously, on September 24 of this year, a report published on the Hebei Daily client introduced that in the Dianjian Smart City in the Rongdong area of Xiong'an New Area, a modern building quietly stands — this is the location of PDD Information Technology Services (Xiong'an) Co., Ltd. In May of this year, PDD Holdings Inc decided to register and establish a subsidiary in Xiong'an New Area. With the help of relevant departments in the new area, the PDD Xiong'an company completed registration in just one day. Subsequently, the company vigorously pushed forward employee recruitment, team building, and business implementation. In just over three months, its employee scale exceeded 5,000, successfully launching two business centers — the Traditional Industry Data Processing Service Center and the Traditional Manufacturing High-Quality Development Comprehensive Service Center — achieving "accelerated development." As the operational center of PDD Holdings Inc in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the establishment and rapid development of the PDD Xiong'an company not only injected strong momentum into the digital economy industry of Xiong'an New Area but also created a large number of employment opportunities, allowing many young talents to enjoy a wonderful "big tech company life" in the city of the future.