The dragon bids farewell to the old year, and the snake ushers in the new spring. Partners of EKUN, Happy New Year!

In Year of the Dragon, EKUN focused on the work principle of "keeping up with trends, strengthening fundamentals, and pursuing innovation." Guided by the mission of being a "trustworthy logistics manager for customers," we actively perceived customer needs in our interactions with them. We also actively paid attention to technological advancements, policies, and market directions, and systematically considered the interplay between external variables and EKUN's fundamental management for innovative purposes. By continuously accumulating key elements such as safety management, equipment upgrades, management system certifications, information technology innovation, and personnel training, we consistently meet customer demands for safe, reliable, convenient, efficient, and personalized services.

This year marks the Year of the Snake and EKUN's 27th year of development. The world is currently undergoing significant changes unseen in a century. Although we have encountered a relatively prolonged downturn, businesses, especially private enterprises, have faced difficulties. However, in this challenging environment, EKUN will uphold the annual focus of "maintaining resilience and continuous innovation" in 2025. From mindset, cognition, to fundamental management, we will strengthen EKUN's unique traits as the "most vibrant new-type long-standing logistics enterprise in Qingdao Comprehensive Bonded Zone." We will continue to strive from internal management to market expansion to maintain a stable and sustained development trend. This focus is a continuation of our past legacy and also reflects the essence of the industry and the requirements for transcending the enterprise's life cycle.

Maintaining Resilience. Whether it is EKUN as a commercial entity or its employees, we must always maintain a positive and proactive professional attitude, keeping our confidence and staying steadfast. The more intense the changes in the external environment, the more we need to consolidate our management foundation. The continuous consolidation of the management foundation is a prerequisite for maintaining innovation. Only by "strengthening the foundation" can we "continue to innovate." In terms of strategy, we adhere to the positioning of the bonded logistics development field and the mission of being a reliable logistics manager for customers without wavering. We continuously consolidate EKUN's steady growth, build a team with a shared vision, and establish long-term trust with our customers. At the tactical level of the middle circle, we continue to enhance process capabilities, solidify our management foundation, and achieve continuous innovation through the constant optimization of methods, ensuring safer production, more assured customers, and sustainable development. EKUN's nearly 30 years of development history is a journey step by step towards future vision goals, continuously learning, applying, innovating, improving, and harvesting in a positive development path. We have gone through several economic cycles, and especially during the downturn, EKUN should seek internal motivation, strive for significant breakthroughs based on accumulated efforts, and let history tell the future that every achievement is the fulfillment of past goals.

Continuous Innovation. Standing at the beginning of a new cycle, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, represented by artificial intelligence and new energy, is proceeding with great momentum. China has unveiled a large-scale economic stimulus, placing high hopes on new-quality productivity. Over the past year, we have identified and streamlined the key points for innovation. From strategic cognitive innovation, service product innovation, service field integration and expansion, institutional process innovation, equipment research and development innovation, talent development model innovation, information technology innovation, organizational structure innovation, to safety and green development, we have optimized new-quality productivity: we have innovatively improved strategic cognitive tools such as "EKUN's Three Circles" and "Competence Triangle," converting strategy into employees' independent actions through the path of "cognitive construction-practical innovation-behavior implementation"; starting from our mission, we focus on customers' new-quality products and needs, designing personalized logistics solutions to coexist and develop with customer value; we concentrate on the bonded logistics field, leveraging the regional vitality and development opportunities of the area to expand bonded logistics service functions and products, meeting customers' integrated logistics service demands; we are a learning organization, continuously innovating systems through integrated management system certification and supervisory audits, refining process management; we conduct research and development innovation and intelligent upgrades on production equipment based on customer needs, promoting a leap in productivity; we continue to optimize the application of an HR management system oriented towards competence, combining the standards of the task with the abilities of individuals to enhance the competency of stewards; we pay attention to new high-tech tools such as big data and artificial intelligence, and carry out information technology innovation in a timely manner to optimize traditional industry management and operation methods; we integrate the concept of safety and green development into daily safety work such as fire safety and employee labor protection to ensure the effective achievement of safety production targets; based on customer business needs, company size, and regional expansion requirements, we conduct personnel and organizational structure innovation in a timely manner to enhance service efficiency... Moving towards the new, this is the necessary path for EKUN to maintain vitality and dynamism in the future.

As a company that has developed in sync with the Qingdao Free Trade Zone, EKUN has crystallized into an ecological enterprise that is constantly evolving and capable of self-renewal. We follow trends, leverage opportunities, consolidate our foundation, and optimize our methods to achieve results, always maintaining vitality and innovation. Guided by a consistent set of values and vision, through each step of our steadfast collective efforts, we achieve our goals, win together in development, and over time, become the most vibrant new-quality evergreen logistics enterprise in the Qingdao Free Trade Zone.

Spring symbolizes vitality and heralds a burst of energy. EKUN wishes everyone a flourishing career, a bright future, and may everything go as smoothly as the Snake gliding. May good things come in pairs, and happiness be doubled!