Peng Zhao
Analyst · Morgan Stanley
[Interpreted] Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our company's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings conference call. On behalf of the company's employees, management team and Board of Directors, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our users and investors who have continuously believed in and supported us. Today's presentation will cover 4 main parts. First, our financial results for fourth quarter and full year of 2025. Second, the robust growth momentum we are seeing in both supply and demand during the spring recruitment season this year. Third, an update on our AI progress. And fourth, further strengthen our commitment to shareholder returns. First, let me briefly review the company's performance for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025. In fourth quarter, we generated a total revenue of RMB 2.08 billion, up 14% year-on-year. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, our adjusted operating profit reached RMB 900 million, up 37% year-on-year. The fourth quarter is traditionally a low season for recruitment in China. However, after adjusting for seasonality, the higher demand for our enterprises continued the steady recovery trend since the beginning of this year. The supply and demand ratio also remained within a healthy range. By sector, manufacturing, electronics, communications and semiconductor industries stood out. Urban service, automotive and consumer retail industries saw faster growth. The Internet technology industry achieved a faster year-on-year growth rate in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter. In full year 2025, the company generated a total revenue of RMB 8.27 billion, up 12.4% year-on-year. Net income reached RMB 2.7 billion. Excluding other income such as investment gains and share-based compensation expenses, our adjusted operating profit reached RMB 3.38 billion, up 45.7% year-on-year. Our adjusted operating profit margin reached 40.8%. The upward growth momentum in user continues. In 2025, the company acquired nearly 46 million newly verified users. As of the end of 2025, the platform had cumulatively served over 250 million job seekers and 36 million enterprise users with the total number of enterprises served exceeding 20 million. In 2025, the average monthly active users, the MAU of the BOSS Zhipin app reached over 60.7 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 14.5%. In 2025, the platform facilitated over 2.27 billion instances of mutually consented exchanges of resume or contact information, what we commonly refer to as mutual consent, representing a year-on-year growth of 22.4%. The average number of mutual consent per job seeker also rose by 7% year-on-year. This demonstrates our strong double-sided network effect on our platform. In 2025, the company continued its momentum in penetrating the blue-collar sector, lower-tier cities and small and medium-sized enterprises. The growth rate of blue collar users led overall user base with their contribution to revenue further increasing. Meanwhile, white-collar recruitment demand also recovered steadily with sectors such as Internet technology and communications, semiconductors achieved higher growth rates compared to 2024, reflecting a structural improvement. From a city tier perspective, revenue contribution from third-tier and low-tier cities approached 25% in fourth quarter, doubling compared to 4 years ago. This clearly demonstrates that our user penetration strategy in lower-tier markets is steadily gaining traction, while our brand awareness has continued to expand. In 2025, revenue contributed by enterprises was fewer than 100 employees exceeded 50% for the first time. The substantial contribution from SMEs became a key driver of the platform's continuous growth. On the monetization front, in the 12 months ended December 31, 2025, which is full year 2025, the number of paid enterprise customers reached 6.83 million, up 11.6% year-on-year and 1.3% quarter-on-quarter. The payment (sic) [ paying ratio ] among active users continue to see modest growth due to the increased revenue contribution from SMEs, the average revenue per paying user, which is the ARPPU, remained broadly stable. Second, we are seeing robust momentum in both supply and demand side during the spring recruitment season this year. As we know, the peak season for recruitment in China is after spring festival every year. Adjusted for the Chinese New Year holiday, the average daily newly verified users, including both job seekers and enterprise users, exceeded the same period last year and active users after spring festival reached at a record high. The average daily job postings in the 15 days after the spring festival grew by a double-digit percentage year-on-year. In terms of supply and demand dynamics, the ratio of job seekers to enterprise users, which is the [ C to B ] ratio, our platform remained within a healthy and reasonable range. By industry sectors, active job postings in areas such as manufacturing, electronics and communications, semiconductors, automotive, advertising and media and urban services grew at a faster pace compared to other industries. Given that the spring festival fell later this year compared to last year, and it has been only a few weeks since the holiday period ended, white-collar and large enterprises typically resume operations slightly later than blue-collar and SME sectors. However, based on our current data, both newly added and active job postings in fields such as Internet, AI and technology already showing signs of accelerated year-on-year growth compared to the same period last year. Third, our AI progress. First, with the empowerment of AI, the company now has significantly greater opportunities to deliver closed-loop services. For enterprise users, the goal is to bring the right people on board. For job seekers, it's about securing a stable position. In this sense, the value that online recruitment has provided since its inception represents only a small part of the big picture so far. In the past, online recruitment advertising platforms primarily offered value through information dissemination between supply and demand side. Now platforms like BOSS Zhipin focus on increasing the profitability and opportunity of establishing labor contracts between enterprise users and job seekers. Moving forward, the online recruitment industry has the opportunity to evolve towards a closed-loop model. AI can assist companies in completing the last mile of work. By 2025, with the support of AI capabilities, the revenue from closed-loop services has already reached the scale of hundreds of millions RMB. To date, this segment has been growing faster than other businesses on our platform. In fact, many have recognized that AI can improve the matching efficiency for any roles in the economy. In simple terms, AI enables large-scale closed-loop services by better digitalizing both sides of demand, enhancing the efficiency of frontline workers and reducing the maintenance costs of large teams. Another progress, I will describe it between the enterprise user side and job seeker side. The AI quick hiring tool developed for high-end users with demanding recruitment requirements and strong willingness to pay has achieved positive results and is now being scaled up for broader trials. The core function of the tool is to better remember and understand the specific needs and preferences of targeted client, automatically conduct searches within a database of 250 million job seekers and the continuous interaction with users to improve hit rate. The feature demonstrates high reusability, and we believe that it holds strong commercial potential. From the job seeker side, our AI-assisted interview feature experiment has been fully rolled out to users within BOSS Zhipin's interview rooms. This has significantly increased both the usage and reusability of the company's proprietary interview rooms, while also enabling the platform to collect a greater volume of high-value interview data. The third progress is that the company has adopted a proactive approach in applying AI agent to assist the specific enterprise users by leverage AI hosting and screening capabilities. [ Per capita ] delivery efficiency has significantly improved in a situation like hiring scenarios such as for manufacturing workers and live streamers. This progress makes a business model based on successful hires or interviews viable on a large scale. We consistently inform job seekers that they are interacting with AI agents. And we believe that the job seekers response is quite positive and enterprise user satisfaction rate is high. The last approach in terms of scientific research, the scientists at our company's Nanbeige lab have made some industry-leading exploration into the intelligence and capability ceiling of small models. Among this, the recently opened source, Nanbeige 4.1/3B model with only 3 billion parameters, surpassed models from the Qwen3 series ranging from 4 billion to 52 billion parameters on multiple evaluation tasks. We are not intended to compare with others on this scale. In late February, it ranked first in HuggingFace's trending list for the text generation models. Fourth, our plan for shareholder returns. Today, the Board passed a resolution approving a plan to allocate no less than 50% of the prior year's adjusted net income for dividend and share repurchase over the 3-year period starting from 2026. Meanwhile, the company will increase the share repurchase program upper limit from $250 million to $400 million initially approved in August 2025. We will scale up repurchase as appropriate in response to changing market conditions, and we believe that it fully demonstrates our confidence in the company's long-term growth as well as our long-run commitment to delivering value to our shareholders and friends who supported and believed in us. That concludes my part of the call. I will now turn it over to our Deputy CFO, Wenbei, for the review of our financials. Thank you.