Business trips can also earn points to spend as money—hotel industry opens up new innovative ideas | Yike Business Review

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Jinjiang Hotels comprehensively upgrades corporate member points benefits, stepping up direct sales to build a large-member ecosystem

If you stay in a hotel for business travel, you can even “earn points to use like money.” On March 31, a leading domestic hotel group, Jinjiang Hotels (China), comprehensively upgraded its corporate member points benefits. Going forward, when corporate employees of businesses that have signed business travel cooperation with Jinjiang Hotels travel on business, as long as they book hotels with a “points benefits” label in the “Corporate Booking” section of the Jinjiang Hui app/miniprogram or on their company’s business travel platform, they can accumulate Jinjiang Hui points. These points will be credited directly to the employees’ individual member accounts. Later, when employees travel for personal reasons, they can not only directly deduct room charges, but also be used in other diversified consumption scenarios across “Food, Lodging, Transportation, Travel, Shopping, Entertainment.”

Commentary: In today’s highly competitive market environment, sustained growth in direct-sales channels is key to strengthening hotel business resilience and achieving sustainable development. Jinjiang Hotels (China) directly links corporate member points to individual accounts and expands usage scenarios—this is a crucial innovation in the hotel industry’s competition within membership systems. In addition to deepening the loyalty of enterprise customers and enhancing cooperation stickiness with employees’ tangible benefits, it also breaks through the limitations of traditional points, improves user conversion efficiency through cross-scenario application, and can help build a “points economy ecosystem” by integrating “Food, Lodging, Transportation, Travel, Shopping, Entertainment” needs to form a closed-loop consumption system. For the industry, it offers insights from innovation.

Yadea to raise prices by more than 300 yuan across all categories starting April 1

The media confirmed with Yadea’s dealers that Yadea has decided to uniformly adjust the ex-factory prices of products across all categories effective from 00:00 on April 1, 2026. The per-unit price increase will be more than 300 yuan. For the detailed price adjustment breakdown by specific model, refer to the “Product Price Execution Table” officially issued by the company on April 1, 2026. In the relevant price adjustment letter, Yadea states that major bulk raw-material prices have been continuously rising sharply, with the increases for metals such as aluminum, copper, and iron exceeding 40%, and chemical raw materials such as plastic pellets rising by as much as more than 80%. Faced with unprecedented cost pressure, it has consistently adhered to the business philosophy of “customers first,” voluntarily assuming operating cost burdens in the first quarter of 2026 to fully absorb the factors driving cost increases, without making adjustments to product prices.

Commentary: Yadea’s across-the-board price increases across all categories are a landmark event for the electric two-wheeler industry to bid farewell to “low-price competition” and move toward high-quality development. Behind it are the triple pressures of raw-material cost, the compliance cost of the new national standard, and changes in the industry’s competitive logic. In recent years, the industry has long been trapped in a vicious cycle of trading price for volume, with corporate profits thin and unable to support technological innovation and service upgrades. As a leading brand, Yadea’s first price adjustment is not merely a passive transmission of cost pressure, but a key move to proactively end the dilemma of “increasing production without increasing revenue” and to push the industry to shift from “price wars” to “value wars.”

Apple tests a new Siri feature that supports processing multiple instructions in one go

Insiders say Apple is testing a new feature that allows Siri to handle multiple requests in a single query, improving the performance of this digital assistant, which has been around for nearly 15 years. Apple is developing this feature as part of the iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 operating systems, which are expected to be released later this year. This move will bring Siri’s capabilities closer to those of new-generation AI assistants.

Commentary: Apple’s push to enable Siri to process multiple instructions in a single pass marks a new stage in the evolution of assistant technology toward “parallel multi-task processing,” breaking the traditional single-thread limitation of voice assistants. This move will reshape the user experience and improve efficiency, while also strengthening Apple’s differentiated competitive strength within its ecosystem. On the technical side, the feature needs to overcome bottlenecks in natural language understanding and task decoupling, highlighting Apple’s deep investment in underlying AI technologies. On the industry side, Apple’s upgrade will force competitors such as Google and Amazon to accelerate iteration to avoid falling behind. In the long run, multi-instruction processing may become a standard capability of AI assistants, driving the industry from “single interaction” to “compound services” and catalyzing smarter upgrades in scenarios such as smart homes and in-car systems.

China’s hard-tech makes another appearance in the international authoritative journal Cell《Cell》

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Recently, Innovent Biologics, a China-based innovative drug company, announced that its independently developed global first dual-receptor agonist for glucagon (GCG)/glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), the Maceidutide injection, released the results of a Phase II clinical study of a 9 mg dose conducted in obese subjects in China, which have been published in full online in Cell’s journal, MED. The study shows that Maceidutide 9 mg demonstrates strong weight-loss efficacy, achieving more than 30 jin (approximately 15 kg) of weight reduction over the year, bringing benefits to multiple cardiovascular and metabolic indicators, with safety being controllable.