Kandi Technologies Group, Inc.

Greetings. Welcome to Candy Technology's second quarter 2024 financial results call. This time all participants are in listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero from your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. At this time, I'll now turn the conference over to Ki-Hwa Liu. Ki-Hwa, you may begin.

Thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you all for joining us today's conference call to discuss Candidate's results for the second quarter 2024. Earlier today, we issued a press release covering the results. You can find the press release from the Newswire services. Please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the US Private Security Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. As such, the company's actual results may be materially different from the expectations expressed today. Further information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the company's public filings with the SEC. The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement. except as required under applicable law. Additionally, unless otherwise stated, all figures mentioned during the conference call are in U.S. dollars. Before we continue, I would like to introduce the team joining me on today's call. We have Mr. Xiaoming Hu, Chairman of the Board, Dr. Xueqing Dong, Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Alan Lin, Chief Financial Officer, and for the first time on our call, Mr. Johnny Tai, CEO of Candy America, and Mr. Olin Rice, CEO of Northern Group. Dr. Dong will deliver his prepared remarks in Chinese, which I will then translate. Following that, we will have a Q&A session with Chairman Hu, Johnny, and Olin, and CEO to answer. Now, let us start with brief greetings from each of our executives.

Hello, this is Hu Xiaoming. Thank you for joining us today. Hello, everyone. I'm Xueqing Dong.