On the evening of October 24, the lights at Beijing Workers' Stadium lit up as scheduled. This place once witnessed the highlight moments of professional powerhouses and star players, but this time, a group of ordinary campus football youth stood under the spotlight. The 2026 Dongrun Cup National Youth Football Final came to a close here, with Tsinghua University High School defeating Shijiazhuang No. 2 Experimental School 2:0 to lift the championship trophy. As the top strategic partner of the event, BYD's Li Yunfei joined hands with Kong Dongmei, founder and chairman of the Dongrun Public Welfare Foundation, appearing at the awards ceremony together to award the winning youth and witness the glorious night belonging to campus football.

This is not an ordinary final. 22 campus football teams selected from more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, and 352 schools gathered in Beijing, with nearly 5,000 players and coaches investing in this event. These children may not be gifted "chosen ones", but rather countless ordinary adolescents who love to play football. Letting them run, fight, and receive awards at the Workers' Stadium is itself a declaration: top-tier venues are never exclusive to the few, ordinary children's football dreams also deserve to be taken seriously. As Li Yunfei said when the two sides signed: "We cannot play for them, but we can bring them to the field."

This sentence is exactly the footnote to the collaboration between BYD and the Dongrun Public Welfare Foundation, and it also condenses BYD's long-termism towards the cause of Chinese youth football.

In fact, BYD's support for youth football has long ceased to be a "whim", but a long line extending over many years. As early as 2010, BYD established a charitable foundation, focusing deeply on education support, poverty alleviation, and disaster relief fields; upon its 30th anniversary, it established a 3 billion yuan educational charitable fund, currently covering 127 universities nationwide and motivating over 6,000 students. From education to sports, this public welfare gene remains consistent.

Focusing on football, BYD takes "Football Youth" as the overall IP, spreading support to both grassroots and overseas ends. On one hand, it continues to support youth training projects such as "China Football Youth" and "Future Selection", organizing over 200 football youth trips to Germany, Japan, Spain, Thailand, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, etc., starting from 2024, to enter overseas powerhouse clubs for exchange, visit top venues like the European Championship and World Cup to broaden horizons, giving potential children a chance to see a bigger world. On the other hand, it directs its gaze to neglected remote corners: it once organized football youth from Ili, Xinjiang to Japan for international exchange and donated equipment, allowing border teams to compete with overseas youth training teams on the same field; mobilized owner volunteers to enter Guizhou Yuanbao Women's Football Team, opened public welfare classes, donated materials, accompanying football girls in the mountains to chase their green field dreams. From equipment supply, public welfare teaching to international competition exchange, BYD continuously complements the resource gaps of grassroots football.

This time partnering with the Dongrun Public Welfare Foundation to land the Dongrun Cup is an important link new to this long line. The Dongrun Public Welfare Foundation is a national 5A-level non-public foundation registered and supervised by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It has focused on youth assistance for ten years, covering 31 provinces and 324 counties nationwide, possessing a mature county-level implementation network. Public welfare platforms and corporate forces "strong alliance", building high-quality events in county-level campuses, expanding the participation base, letting more ordinary children play football nearby and play high-quality matches. Considering both elite elevation and campus popularization, this is exactly the practice of respecting the growth laws of youth football — only when ordinary teenagers who love football also have a stage, will the soil of Chinese football become thicker and thicker.

More meaningfully, BYD's strategy in the international football world echoes domestic public welfare. Overseas, it has successively partnered with powerhouses such as Manchester City, Inter Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, appeared at the European Championship and Copa America, the "BYD Derby" Manchester City vs Inter Milan match once gained global fan attention, advancing brand globalization with football as a bond; Domestically, it continuously injects resources into campus football, assisting local youth growth. One leg goes global, one leg roots in the grassroots, BYD is using corporate power to accumulate the most solid strength for Chinese football.

When the final whistle sounded at Beijing Workers' Stadium, and the champions of Tsinghua High School embraced in celebration, the spotlight that once belonged to powerhouses and superstars also fell on this group of ordinary high school students. This match will end, but BYD's companionship will not. Just as that sentence "We cannot play for them, but we can bring them to the field" — from powerhouse stadiums to county-level campuses, from overseas exchanges to equipment donations, BYD is, through years of investment, bringing more Chinese football youth onto their own stages, and leading Chinese football towards a more hopeful tomorrow. The lights will shine for every teenager who plays football seriously, and for this beam of light, BYD is willing to keep it lit.