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Geely Xingyuan has been on the market for two years, breaking the world’s fastest sales record of one million

On November 6, the Geely Galaxy Global User Music Carnival and Geely Star’s One Million Dollar Fans Rights and Interests Conference were held in Hangzhou. 24 months after its launch, Geely Xingyuan’s cumulative sales exceeded 1 million units, with one sold in less than a minute, becoming the fastest new energy vehicle in the world to reach one million sales. It has rewritten the competitive landscape of the global pure electric car market with its phenomenal popularity. In response to the trust and expectations of millions of users, Geely Star has released a new version of the STAR limited series - STAR Ace and STAR Chill, with a limited-time rights price of RMB 88,800. At the same time, the "Million-Achieved Fan Rights" was also released at the conference. Users who log in to the Geely Galaxy App to participate in the lottery will have the opportunity to win Grandpa's No Tea milk tea coupons, Geely Star's million-sales commemorative badges, Geely Star's in-car ecological and practical products, Kapibala healing IP peripherals and other gifts. Geely Star is willing to respond to the trust and expectations of millions of users with continuously renewed product values ​​and always-on user rights. It will be launched in October 2024. In just two years, the cumulative sales of Geely Xingyuan exceeded 1 million units, with one unit sold in less than a minute. The choice of millions of users has made the reputation of the "national sacred car" more and more stable, and has also set a new benchmark for the global small car market. Geely Xingyuan's lead is not an accidental surge in a single month, but a stable performance throughout multiple sales cycles. After winning the sales championship of all vehicle categories in the Chinese auto market in 2025, Geely Xingyuan sold a total of 249,418 units in the first half of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 21%, and continued to be the best-selling model in the Chinese market. Entering the second half of the year, Geely Xingyuan's sales pace is still accelerating, with monthly sales exceeding 60,000 units in August and September, and exceeding 70,000 units in October, setting a record high in single-month sales. Regardless of brand, energy or grade, Geely Star is willing to dominate the Chinese automobile market as the sales champion without any attributions.

雷峰网
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Finance

Chinese Short Dramas Own Overseas Attention but Not Yet the Profits

Vertical micro-dramas from Chinese teams now command extreme mobile engagement abroad. The real product is a paid-hook, ad-bought industrial system, not cultural soft power. Thin margins, rising user-acquisition costs, and copycats will decide whether the boom becomes a lasting business.

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Military

ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman

What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own minds In August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. C

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International

China touts tech, AI cred at world Web Summit

China is flexing its technological muscles at the global Web Summit in Lisbon from Tuesday, showcasing dancing robots and low-cost artificial intelligence models as Beijing weathers claims that it spied…

France 24
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Military

Are walking pads worth it? We put the best under-desk treadmills to the test

Want to get your steps in while working or watching TV? Our expert puts walking pads through their paces to find the best for comfort, noise and ease of storage • The best treadmills for your home You don’t necessarily need to walk 10,000 steps a day to improve your health and wellbeing. In fact, the NHS encourages a slightly more manageable target of just 10 minutes of brisk walking daily to introduce more moderate-intensity physical activity and reduce your risk of early death by up to 15%. However, even squeezing in “brisk walks” can be a chore, with busy schedules and increasingly desk-bou

The Guardian
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