Youlife Group Inc. announced that its vocational education brand, Tiankun Education, has entered into a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with Dazhou Technician College. The ten-year collaboration, established on July 20, 2026, aims to strengthen Youlife's nationwide vocational education network by integrating education, talent recruitment, and workforce services into a unified blue-collar ecosystem. This partnership is designed to cultivate highly skilled technical talent aligned with China's rapidly evolving industrial economy.

Strategic Framework

The agreement establishes a long-term framework covering several key operational areas:

• Enrollment and curriculum co-development
• Industry-oriented training and faculty development
• Internship programs and employment placement
• Operational management

By combining Tiankun Education's nationwide operational capabilities with Dazhou Technician College's established educational resources, the parties intend to create a scalable industry-education integration model. This model seeks to directly connect vocational education with enterprise workforce demand, thereby improving graduate employability and strengthening the regional talent supply.

Supporting Industrial Transformation

Dazhou City, located within the Chengdu-Chongqing economic region, is accelerating the development of advanced manufacturing, new energy, and intelligent equipment industries. Management believes that sustained industrial upgrading will continue to increase the demand for technically skilled workers. The partnership targets these sectors by aligning educational outputs with regional industrial priorities.

Management Commentary

"This partnership demonstrates our long-term commitment to building the leading blue-collar lifetime service platform in China," said Wang Yunlei, founder and chairman of the board of directors of Youlife. "Vocational education represents the foundation of our ecosystem. By integrating education, talent cultivation, recruitment and workforce management, we are creating a closed-loop service platform capable of generating long-term value for students, enterprises and regional economies."

Strategic Significance

The agreement expands Youlife's national school-enterprise cooperation platform and enhances its presence in Western China. The project is expected to improve cross-business synergies among vocational education, recruitment, employee management, and future AI-enabled workforce solutions. Management believes these integrated capabilities position Youlife to capture long-term structural growth opportunities as vocational education reforms deepen.

Youlife Group Inc. Overview

Youlife operates a global blue-collar lifecycle service platform, utilizing data, training, and AI-driven workforce solutions. The company manages a network of 180 domestic branches and over 10 overseas offices, partnering with more than 10,000 enterprises worldwide. Under its "School-Enterprise Cooperation" model, Youlife maintains a nationwide network of vocational schools, including 37 schools and 146 curriculum development programs across 16 provinces in China.

Youlife Group Inc. has entered a strategic partnership with Anhui Thingo Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd to provide AI-powered workforce solutions across China. The collaboration aims to integrate AI agent capabilities into Youlife's ecosystem, evolving from labor-intensive services to a platform for human-AI collaboration. This partnership is expected to address the growing demand for AI-enabled workforce solutions and digitally skilled workers in China.

The agreement outlines cooperation across three key domains: AI agent business development and ecosystem collaboration, joint construction of AI-powered recruitment systems, and vocational education partnerships. Under the AI agent business development, the companies will focus on developing AI-powered solutions across office operations, finance, marketing, legal services, and human resources. They will also explore AI agent-enabled outsourcing services and embed Thingo Technology's capabilities into blue-collar service scenarios such as invoice processing and contract review.

In the recruitment domain, Thingo Technology's AI agent technologies will be integrated into Youlife's recruitment infrastructure to enhance job matching efficiency and process automation. The companies plan to jointly develop an end-to-end intelligent recruitment platform featuring AI-powered candidate sourcing, RPA-driven automation, and integration with mainstream recruitment platforms. The goal is to establish an intelligent, automated, and closed-loop recruitment ecosystem.

The vocational education partnership aims to support the development of workers skilled in understanding, using, and collaborating with AI systems. The companies will jointly identify or help establish AI industry colleges, vocational training programs, and socialized workforce training initiatives. They will also introduce products and services such as AI learning companions, teaching assistants, and joint curriculum development.

Wang Yunlei, founder and chairman of the board of directors of Youlife, emphasized that the partnership allows Youlife to integrate AI agent capabilities into its ecosystem. He stated that as AI technologies become further embedded across China's vocational education, talent recruitment, and workforce management sectors, the partnership's competitive advantages are likely to grow, creating substantial new revenue opportunities.

Fu Lei, chairman of Thingo Technology, highlighted Youlife's comprehensive ecosystem serving the entire lifecycle of blue-collar talent. He noted that Youlife's market leadership, nationwide infrastructure, and full-chain service capabilities make it an ideal partner for innovative technology companies. The partnership aims to explore the human/AI workforce solution market together.

Key Partnership Areas