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Dear Shareholders,

Thank you for the trust and support you have given Dachan Food throughout the challenging year of 2025. It is this trust that has empowered us to steadfastly pursue transformation and advance steadily amid a complex environment.

Over the past year, the global economy has continued to face mounting pressure under multiple factors: recurring geopolitical conflicts, rising trade protectionism, and transition of the world economy into a low-growth cycle. Domestically, insufficient effective demand has coexisted with overcapacity in certain industries. The mutual impact of corporate operating pressure and subdued consumer confidence placed the recovery process under strain. The timely introduction of national policies to stabilize growth and stimulate consumption has renewed market confidence and provided policy support for industry transformation.

In the white feather broiler industry, the imbalance between supply and demand has been particularly pronounced. In recent years, the expansion on the supply side has far outpaced the growth in demand, which has intensified homogeneous competition, squeezed the profit margin along the industrial chain and placed sustained pressure on industry players.

Confronted with this complex environment intertwined with internal and external challenges, we chose not to wait passively for a cyclical rebound. Instead, we made a firm decision to unlock long-term development momentum through business model transformation. We deeply understand that only by strengthening our fundamentals and strengthening our internal capabilities can we build sustainable competitiveness during cyclical fluctuations. We pressed ahead with a strategic shift led by the food business, and continuously optimized the business structure and operation model. Firstly, we further optimized our business model, rebuilt our supply chain system around customer needs, and steadily improved our relative competitiveness by reducing costs and increasing efficiency through refined management. Secondly, we focused on the adjustment of our industrial chain layout, increasing our investments in the expansion of processed food production capacity, research and development of core technologies, optimization of the end-to-end supply chain and precise marketing strategies, while moderately reducing the resource allocation to broiler breeding, slaughtering and feed processing segments – thereby strengthening a growth engine led by processed food. Thirdly, we promoted strategy implementation and organizational capability upgrades, integrating business model transformation with holistic enhancements in organization, systems, talent and culture, to ensure that all strategies can be effectively implemented.

Encouragingly, our transformation efforts have begun to bear fruit in the second half of the year. In the second half of 2025, the Company successfully reversed the losses recorded in the first half of the year and returned to profits, demonstrating operational resilience and recovery momentum. In particular, the processed food segment has continued to serve as a “ballast stone” – in the fourth quarter, the operating income and gross profit of the food business increased by 13% and 17% year-on year, respectively, accounting for 76% of the Company’s gross profit, and has become the most stable profit source and core growth engine of the Group.

RESHAPING THE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN COMPETITIVENESS WITH FOOD AS THE CORE

We recognize that extending deeper into downstream food processing is essential to effectively mitigate cyclical fluctuations in the poultry industry chain and establish a sustainable profit model. Therefore, we continued to increase investments in food production capacity, research and development and supply chain enhancement while moderately reducing resource allocation in breeding and slaughter operations, supporting our business model transformation from “production-driven” to “customer demand-driven.” In 2025, we further solidified the two major food base layouts centered in Bengbu (in the Yangtze River Delta region) and Dalian (in the Northeast region) and continued to advance planning and construction of the Phase III intelligent food plant in Bengbu to meet the rising market demand for higher value-added chicken products through large-scale and intelligent production. Meanwhile, we deepened the “sales-driven production” supply chain model and stimulated upstream production by downstream orders to enhance responsiveness and cost controllability across the entire chain.

CHANNEL SPECIALIZATION AND SCENARIOBASED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TO BUILD DIFFERENTIATED ADVANTAGES

As consumption upgrades and lifestyle changes continue, consumer expectations for food safety, tastiness and convenience have risen, and diversified consumption scenarios keep emerging. The Company has deeply cultivated the domestic meat and food market for over a decade, and has accumulated industry-leading advantages in terms of channel setup and team building. We will strengthen the investment in research and development of food sales channels, continuously promote channel specialization, and design differentiated product combinations according to different consumption scenarios, in order to flexibly cope with the ever-changing consumption trends. At the same time, we are committed to developing healthier and tastier fully-cooked products that meet quality standards, promoting supply chain upgrades towards antibiotics free, additive-free and clean label measures, and continuously satisfying the emerging market and consumer needs.

MAINTAINING STRONG CASH FLOW TO SUPPORT STRATEGIC ADVANCEMENT

Throughout our transformation journey, we have consistently maintained financial prudence and strengthened cash flow management. In 2025, the Company recorded a net operating cash inflow of RMB340 million, with debt ratios kept at a safe level. This solid financial foundation enables sustained investment in food production capacity and digitalization even by us during industry downturns, and positions us to seize opportunities and steadily expand amid industry consolidation.

DIGITALIZATION AND ESG: LAYING A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In response to demographic shifts and industrial upgrading trends, we have continued to increase investment in automation and digitalization. Smart equipment has been widely introduced in new food plant, while ERP system upgrades and exploratory AI applications are steadily advancing. These efforts aim to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making quality through data driven insights.

Meanwhile, we have consistently integrated the concept of sustainability into our corporate governance and daily operations. In 2025, the Company was rated AA in the Wind ESG rating, reflecting market recognition of our long-term efforts in environmental, social, and governance aspects. ESG is not only a safeguard for risk management but also a crucial pillar for empowering business growth and building a responsible corporate brand.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026: PURSUING STEADY PROGRESS WHILE FOCUSING ON THREE KEY DIRECTIONS

Looking ahead to the new year, uncertainties in the international political and economic environments and the domestic economy will persist. We will continue to pursue progress while maintaining stability, and focus on three core directions: 1) concentrating resources on accelerating the growth of the food segment so as to drive the synergized development of the entire industrial chain with food products as the lead; 2) promoting the diversification of feed products and channels in order to hedge the impact of fluctuations in the hog cycle and the changes in the market landscape; 3) deepening the business model adjustment of meat products and focusing on product differentiation and product value enhancement to lower the impact of market fluctuations on the results.

As an enterprise dedicated to meeting consumers’ demands for high-quality food products, we will face challenges with stronger determination and closely focus on the market with more practical actions. We will continue to improve product quality and the service standard, and adhere to the concept of honesty and integrity in our operations, so as to provide tasty, safe and healthy food products targeting different consumption scenarios, and will strengthen our corporate governance system, proactively assume our corporate social responsibilities, and withstand the uncertainties of the external environment with sustainable and high-quality development.

Once again, thanks for the trust and support from our stakeholders! We strongly believe that, only by taking root in the industry and further cultivating values, we will be able to start a new chapter in the changing landscape and steadily increase shareholders’ returns, while witnessing the sustainable development of the industry and the enterprise together with all of you.

Chairman
James Chun-Hsien Wei

Hong Kong
March 2026

 
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