LIANYUNGANG, China, May 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After its mascot "Monkey Baby" (Hou Bao) gained unexpected online attention following a playful wardrobe mishap, the coastal Chinese city of Lianyungang is moving quickly to convert viral attention into economic opportunity. On May 6, the city unveiled the "Golden Cudgel" Plan — a commercial partnership initiative tied to its role as host of The 21st Jiangsu Provincial Games.
Drawing on the symbolism of the Monkey King's legendary weapon, the Golden Cudgel — associated with bold ambition and scale — the plan positions Lianyungang as a platform for shared commercial growth. Its tagline — "Every ounce counts. Let's win as one." — invites global partners to participate in what the city describes as a symbolic "13,500-jin opportunity", referencing the cudgel's mythical weight.
The "Golden Cudgel" Plan introduces four tiers of partnership with a structured benefits framework, designed to engage both corporate and individual participants:
- Dinghai Shenzhen – Strategic Partner
- Bailian Jingu – Co-Creation Partner
- Zhenchang Shenqi – Growth Partner
- Ruyi Xiuzhen – Dream Chaser (entry level, from RMB 3,000)
The benefits package spans city branding, honorary recognition, service access, consumer incentives, and business engagement opportunities.
In 2026, Lianyungang will host The 21st Jiangsu Provincial Games, coinciding with the Jiangsu Football League ("Su Chao"), creating a dual-event cycle expected to accelerate the city's event-led economic activity.
Hu Zhu, a senior official of Lianyungang, outlined the city's positioning through three illustrative narratives — each highlighting a different dimension of its economic and cultural profile. The story of "Monkey Baby" reflects the city's openness and resilience; a story centered on a cup of milk tea captures its fast-growing consumer economy; and a story about handmade press-on nails illustrates how Lianyungang connects with global markets through creativity and light manufacturing. "We sincerely invite you to become our City Partner and join us in capturing the opportunities of the sports economy for shared, long-term growth," Hu said.
At the launch event, Zhu Yaohui, Chairman of Jiangsu Tanggou Liangxianghe Liquor Co., Ltd., and Fang Hao, founder of the fresh fruit tea brand Zuoxinfang, shared their entrepreneurial journeys and business ambitions. Together, they contributed symbolic energy to the Golden Cudgel, reinforcing the city's role as a collaborative commercial platform.
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Lianyungang Launches "Golden Cudgel" Plan to Drive Sports Economy
SINGAPORE, May 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On a recent afternoon in Kuala Lumpur, a trade consultant opened a contract on her phone during a cab ride, flagged key clauses, then picked up where she left off on her office laptop an hour later — no file transfer, no reformatting, no version mismatch. Tools like this used to require a patchwork of apps. Increasingly, they don't.
WPS Office (www.wps.com), the document software platform used on 678 million active devices monthly, rolled out a major global update on April 30, adding cross-device cloud synchronization and a suite of embedded AI tools — translation, proofreading, and stylistic rewriting — all accessible without leaving the document.
The update reflects a clear shift in how productivity software is being evaluated: the next frontier isn't raw AI capability, but how invisibly that capability fits into the workflows users already have.
The seamless cross-device continuity feature ensures that a document opened on a phone, tablet, or desktop reflects the same editing state in real time. For mobile workers navigating multiple devices across a workday, that removes a persistent source of small but cumulative friction.
The AI features address a parallel pain point: language. Knowledge workers in multilingual environments — particularly prevalent across Southeast Asia — often toggle between a document and a separate translation or grammar tool, losing focus with each switch. WPS now keeps all three steps — translate, check, polish — inside a single interface, supporting over 100 languages with context-aware output rather than word-for-word substitution.
The new version also adds support for Malay, Vietnamese, Korean, and Italian, signaling a deliberate push into markets where language switching is a daily operational reality, not an edge case.
The update also marks a structural expansion of WPS Office's international product. The personal collaboration workspace now includes online documents, spreadsheets, and forms, alongside a layer of application services — multidimensional tables, AI-generated slides, and a resume builder — none of which were previously available in the international version.
The broader contest in AI office software is shifting. As large language model capabilities converge across providers, the differentiator is moving toward integration depth — how invisibly a tool fits into existing work patterns. WPS Office's update is a clear move in that direction: fewer tabs, fewer interruptions, fewer reasons to leave the document.
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