Listen only mode. Please be advised that today's webinar is being recorded. The company's financial and operational results were issued earlier today and are posted online. You can also view the earnings press release by visiting the IR website at ir.huya.com. A replay of the call will be available on the IR website in a few hours. Participants of the management on today's call will be Mr. Junhong Huang, Acting Co-CEO and Senior Vice President of Huya, and Ms. Ashley Xin Wu, Acting Co-CEO and Vice President of Finance. Management will begin with prepared remarks, and the call will conclude with a Q&A session. Before we continue, please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements made under the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. As such, the company's results may be materially different from the views expressed today. Further information regarding this and other risks and uncertainties is included in the company's prospectus and other public filings, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required under applicable law. Please also note that Huya's earnings press release and this conference call include discussion of unaudited GAAP financial information, as well as unaudited non-GAAP financial measures. Huya's press release contains a reconciliation of the unaudited non-GAAP measures to the unaudited, most directly comparable GAAP measures. With that, I'm pleased to turn the call over to our Co-CEO and SVP, Mr. Huang. Please go ahead. Okay. Hello, everyone, thank you for joining our earnings conference today. Against the backdrop of persistent uncertainty in the macro environment and industry landscape, we were pleased to resume quarter-over-quarter growth in total net revenues in the second quarter, up 2.5% from the previous quarter to reach RMB 1.54 billion, driven by the rapid revenue growth of our game-related services, advertising, and other businesses. Notably, game-related services, advertising, and other revenues reached a milestone, contributing 20% of our total net revenues for the first time. We also sustained our profitability with non-GAAP net income of approximately RMB 97 million. Solid strategic execution across business and commercialization transformation, content and platform ecology upgrades, and technology and product advancement supported this quarter's positive outcomes. Now, let's take a detailed look at our recent operational and strategic progress. First, some user metrics. For the second quarter of 2024, Huya Live's average mobile MAUs reached 82.5 million, 83.5 million, up from 82.6 million for the previous quarter and 82.9 million for the same period last year. The growth was mainly driven by the success of several self-organized esports events. Various recent new game launches and our continuous user experience improvement also contributed to enhanced user engagement. As we mentioned on our last call, we are strengthening our cooperation with various platforms and products to enhance our platform ecology and reach a wider range of users. This includes professionally-generated content, co-production, broadcaster across platform streaming, and joint promotion initiatives. As a barrier-breaking industry pioneer, we believe we can further increase the Huya platform's influence within this more open content ecosystem. We have already started to selectively bring our live streaming and video content to other content platforms, as well as various product lines within the Tencent ecosystem. In June, Huya content reached a total of approximately 120 million mobile users. We are confident this broadened reach will facilitate the creation of more commercialization opportunities. Moving on to our strategic transformation, our game-related services continued to expand rapidly as we collaborated with more game titles, leverage our live streaming content and PGC programs, and employed innovative operational approaches to drive business development. In the second quarter, revenues from our game-related services, advertising, and other segment increased by 152.7% year-over-year, and 26.6% quarter-over-quarter to RMB 308.5 million. In terms of game distribution, we continue to expand evergreen games coverage and drive improvement in their user return rates. We also participated in the promotion and distribution of newly launched DNF Mobile in the second quarter. Specifically, we set up a special pre-download area for this game in the game center section of Huya Live app, promoted the game with specially designed programs and exclusive props and gifts, and recruited broadcasters for the game's live streaming, all of which helped to increase the game's exposure and popularity on our platform. DNF Mobile not only ranked top among this year's new games in live streaming viewership indicators, but also achieved better than expected result in game distribution. In particular, early data shows that in-game spend per user of the Huya distribution channel user for this game was significantly higher than that of broader game channels, highlighting our platform's deeply engaged base of high-value gamer users. We also commenced in-game item sales for League of Legends: Wild Rift and VALORANT in the second quarter, innovatively combining game prop sales with corresponding tournaments to fully leverage these games' rich esports content. For example, we sold League of Legends Champion skins through our Legend Cup live streaming channel, which generated great purchase interest. In terms of game advertising, in addition to gearing up for the promotion of this summer's upcoming games, we recently produced Yi Jing Dao Di, or Competing to the End, an interactive gameplay variety show, and that integrates game promotion and entertainment content under a different game theme in each episode. The program successfully engaged users on our platform and proved effective in driving active new players to corresponding games. It is worth mentioning that our game-related services have also opened up in new income sources for our content creators, gradually improving their income levels. In the first half of this year, several thousand of our broadcasters received revenue sharing and commissions from game distribution and prop sales. As esports content represents one of our core offerings, we continuously refine Huya self-organized esports content events. Our Legend Cup, held in the second quarter, is a perfect example of our progress in upgrading tournaments, products, and operational strategies. Legend Cup is our premium self-organized tournament in cooperation with League of Legends game. This event brought together outstanding retired and active professional players and introduced bold innovations in the competition format and schedule. We live streamed the entire event, beginning with player selection and team formation, and distributed highlight videos across multiple platforms. This enhancement helped attract widespread interest from League of Legends gamers and esports viewers, both within and outside Huya's platform. We also introduced a number of special features for the Legend Cup on our Huya Live app. For example, we set up designated event discussion area to aggregate event hot topics, player news, short videos, and official tournament information. In addition, a new rating card function allowed viewers to comment on multiple aspects of players' performance, showcasing players' diverse characteristics and increasing users' interaction and enjoyment. In terms of event presentation, we created a voice capture live broadcast room for this tournament. Powered by cutting-edge automatic speech recognition technology and an esports professional vocabulary library, this feature instantly converts oral communication between players into text, immersing the audience in the players' game experience. Furthermore, our Legend Cup was seamlessly integrated into LOL's professional league schedules to complement and enrich the LOL esports content ecosystem. Legend Cup also provided opportunities for retired professional players to return to the top arena and quickly attract attention, while its entertaining elements drew a diverse crowd of fresh viewers, expanding the esports and the audience. We were pleased to see this event's viewership set a new record for Huya's in-house produced content. Its popularity index on our platform was also comparable to that of top-tier licensed professional events. More importantly, through events like this one, we hope to enhance the influence and monetization of esports event IPs and promote the esports industry's sustainable development.... Our successful sale of League of Legends Champion skins at the Legend Cup demonstrated Huya's prowess in esports event monetization. Legend Cup's high popularity across platforms and sold out offline finals also underscore our self-organized events commercial value. Inspired by this success, we will continue to develop self-produced content and create more influential and commercially valuable event IPs. In summary, we have made solid progress despite some external challenges. We will continue to consolidate our foundation and actively develop our business as we explore the industry's long-term possibilities. While maintaining our core competitiveness in game live streaming, we will drive game-related services development with content and platform ecology upgrades, technology advancement, and product innovation, expanding Huya's presence in the game industry value chain. With that, I will turn the call over to our Acting Co-CEO and VP of Finance, Ashley Wu, to share more details on our results. Ashley, please go ahead. Thank you, Vincent, and hello, everyone. I'll start with an update on our professional content enrichment. In terms of licensed content, we broadcasted over 80 licensed professional esports tournaments in the second quarter of 2024. The LOL Mid-Season Invitational attracted great attention, and the LPL, KPL, and CFPL professional leagues remain among our most popular events. The VALORANT Champions Tour CN and ESL Pro League Season 19 for Counter-Strike 2 were also welcomed by our users. In addition to covering extensive leading licensed esports events in China, we are expanding the range of international esports content available on our platform. For instance, we are broadcasting the inaugural Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia starting in July, further enriching our high-quality esports content library. On the in-house content front, we broadcasted over 20 self-organized esports tournaments and entertainment PGC shows during the quarter. In addition to the LOL Legend Cup and the Yi Jing Dao Di program that we mentioned earlier, we also co-hosted the first Thunder Honor Cup for Honor of Kings with another game live streaming platform in the second quarter. This event brought together professional teams from KPL to participate, capture massive viewer attention, and demonstrated Huya's increased cooperation with other game players- with other industry players in professional content co-creation. For esports events targeting community participation, we successfully hosted the Nanning Village Game for Honor of Kings and the Shandong Village Game for Peacekeeper Elite in the second quarter. By combining this esports event with local cultural elements, such as traditional costume and food themes, we brought more immersive cultural experiences to a broader audience, while also promoting esports popularity. Furthermore, we held our annual gala event, Huya Boom Night, in April to recognize and reward our broadcasters. The year's event featured on-stage performances by renowned singers and our popular streamers, as well as an all-star esports competition. We also introduced upgraded interactive features for this event to engage both online and offline audience. The number of viewers for this event on our platform once again set a new record. Turning to our financial performance, despite the decline in live streaming revenues, rapid growth in game-related services, advertising, and other business revenues drove a quarter-over-quarter increase in our total revenues for the second quarter. This marks our first quarter of sequential revenue growth since the fourth quarter of 2022. Also, with more users paying for in-game items and other services as the game-related services business expanded, Huya Live paying users continued to grow in the second quarter, up quarter-over-quarter to 4.5 million. Our second quarter gross profit was affected by lower live streaming revenues and higher content spending. However, with the increased contribution from our higher margin game-related services business to total revenues, as well as our continued operational efficiency improvements, we further enhanced our operating results and achieved a close to breakeven non-GAAP operating margin. Specifically, we effectively drove savings in sales and marketing expenses and labor cost, reducing our total operating expenses by 26.3% year-over-year. Let's move on to our Q2 financial details. Our total net revenues were RMB 1.54 billion for Q2, compared with RMB 1.84 billion for the same period last year. Live streaming revenues were RMB 1.23 billion for Q2, compared with RMB 1.72 billion for the same period last year, primarily due to the continued soft macroeconomic and industry environment, as well as our proactive business adjustments to support our strategic transformation and prudent operations. Game-related services, advertising, and other revenues were RMB 309 million for Q2, compared with RMB 122 million for the same period last year, primarily due to increased revenues from game distribution and advertising services and in-game item sales. Cost of revenues decreased by 14% year-over-year to RMB 1.33 billion for Q2, primarily due to decreased revenue sharing fees and content cost, as well as bandwidth costs. Revenue sharing fees and content cost decreased by 13% year-over-year to RMB 1.17 billion for Q2, primarily due to decreased live streaming revenue sharing fees associated with the decline in live streaming revenues, partially offset by increased game-related services, advertising, and other revenue sharing fees, as well as content costs for in-house produced content. Bandwidth cost decreased by 40% year-over-year to RMB 61 million for Q2. This was primarily due to improved bandwidth cost management, favorable pricing terms, and continued technology enhancement efforts. Gross profit was RMB 215 million, and gross margin was 13.9% for Q2. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, non-GAAP gross profit was RMB 219 million, and non-GAAP gross margin was 14.2% for Q2. Research and development expenses decreased by 11% year-over-year to CNY 129 million for Q2, primarily due to decreased personnel-related expenses and share-based compensation expenses. Sales and marketing expenses decreased by 48% year-over-year to CNY 62 million for Q2, primarily due to decreased marketing and promotion fees, as well as personnel-related expenses. General and administrative expenses decreased by 21% year-over-year to RMB 64 million for Q2, primarily due to decreased professional service fees, personnel-related expenses, and share-based compensation expenses. Other income was RMB 13 million for Q2, compared with RMB 24 million for the same period last year, primarily due to lower government subsidies. As a result, operating loss was RMB 26 million for Q2, compared with RMB 33 million for the same period last year. Excluding share-based compensation expenses and amortization of intangible assets from business acquisitions, non-GAAP operating loss was RMB 3 million for Q2, and non-GAAP operating margin was negative 0.2% for Q2, close to breakeven. Interest income was RMB 103 million for Q2, compared with RMB 125 million for the same period last year. Net income attributable to Huya Inc. was RMB 30 million for Q2, compared with RMB 20 million for the same period last year. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, impairment loss of investments, and amortization of intangible assets from business acquisitions, net of income taxes, non-GAAP net income attributable to Huya Inc. was RMB 97 million for Q2, compared with RMB 117 million for the same period last year... Non-GAAP net margin was 6.3% for Q2. Diluted net income per ADS was RMB 0.13 for Q2. Non-GAAP diluted net income per ADS was RMB 0.42 for Q2. As of June 30, 2024, the company had cash and cash equivalents, short-term deposits, short-term investment, and long-term deposits of RMB 8.2 billion, compared with RMB 9.4 billion as of March 31, 2024. Finally, let me provide an update on our shareholder returns. Upon review of our financials, business plan, capital requirements, and cash position, we are pleased to declare a special cash dividend of $1.08 per ordinary shares or per ADS, totaling approximately $250 million for our shareholders. Furthermore, under our up to $100 million share repurchase program that began in August 2023, we have repurchased 17.1 million Huya shares, with a total aggregate consideration of $56.7 million as of the end of June 2024. Huya's board of directors has also authorized the renewal and continued usage of the unutilized quota under the existing share repurchase program of $43.3 million until March 31, 2025. We believe that Huya's solid balance sheet and improving financial fundamentals will continue to support our ability to deliver shareholder returns going forward. With that, I'd like to open the call to your questions. Thank you, Ashley, and hello, everyone. If you are dialing in by phone, please press five to ask a question, then press six to unmute yourself. If you are accessing the call from Tencent Meeting or VooV Meeting applications, please click the Raise Hand button at the bottom left. For the benefit of all participants on today's call, if you wish to ask your question to management in Chinese, please immediately repeat your question in English. Today's first question comes from Thomas Chong from Jefferies. Thomas, your line is open. Please go ahead. So I'll translate myself. Thanks, management, for taking my question. My question is our current user strategies. As we saw on this quarter, year-over-year and sequential growth of mobile MAU and also sequential growth of paying user. Thanks. [Foreign language] Thank you for your question. In the second quarter of this year, Huya's mobile MAU was 83.5 million, mainly due to the excellent performance of many self-made esports events this quarter. In addition, the launch of new games and the continuous improvement of user experience are also conducive to enhancing user activity. Therefore, while we continue to adopt a cautious channel promotion strategy, the number of users has increased compared with Q1 and with the same period last year. [Foreign language] In terms of user strategy, we plan to continue to attract and consolidate users through high-quality streamer content and PGC professional content, including our pyramid-shaped esports event system. That is a complete copyright esports events with self-organized events and increasing influence, as well as mass participation events. In addition, we will carry the interaction of core of game users through the games and events communities on our platform to improve the user retention of Huya and corresponding other game projects. Based on the live broadcast and game data that we have, combined with AI capabilities, we can better promote the output of high quality content and the launch of interactive live broadcast gameplay, so as to improve our user participation as a whole. [Foreign language] On this basis, we focus on construction and upgrading of the platform ecology and an overall more open industry environment, Huya act as a pioneer in breaking industry barriers, and we are strengthening cooperation with multiple platforms and products, including professional content, co-creation, cross-platform live broadcasts, and commercialization initiatives, so as to reach a wider range of users and further expand the influence of Huya platform. Right now, we have begun to selectively deliver Huya's live broadcast and video content to other live broadcast and short video platforms, as well as multiple product lines in the Tencent ecosystem. In June this year, the total mobile MAU reached by Huya content ecosystem reached about 120 million, and this volume continues to grow. [Foreign language] Therefore, we do not only serve the users on Huya, but also users on more platforms across the entire environment and industry. We can also participate in a larger market. At the same time, we believe that upgrade of content and platform can bring more commercial opportunities, especially in the process of Huya's transformation from a pure game live broadcast platform to providing more game related services, and the distribution of game content on multiple platforms, and, the broadcast content can help to drive distribution and promote, and promotion of the games and enhance the influence of broadcasters and bring more opportunities for revenue to grow in game distribution, advertising, and prop sales. Thank you! Our next question comes from Maggie Ye from CLSA. Maggie, please go ahead. Good evening, management. Thanks for the opportunity to ask this question. This time we distributed $250 million in dividends, and at the same time also postponed the stock repurchase plan. Considering that as of the end of June, the company actually still has nearly CNY 8.2 billion in cash deposits and short-term investments, etc., on the books, so I want to ask the management, what is our overall cash usage strategy going forward? Okay, let me translate it. Good evening, management. Thanks for the opportunity to ask a question. We declare $250 million US dollar special cash dividend this time, and also renew the share repurchase program, and meanwhile, we still have cash deposits and short-term investments of CNY 8.2 billion as of end of June. Please, could you share with us the overall strategy of capital allocation and the use of cash going forward? Thank you. [Foreign language] As of the end of June this year, Huya held cash and cash equivalents and deposit totaling approximately RMB 8.2 billion, equivalent to $1.1 billion, of which more than half was still overseas. The change in this amount of funds compared to the end of March, was mainly due to the distribution of $150 million in dividends, share repurchase expenses, and other payments. After we announced and paid the new special cash dividend of $250 million, this time it is estimated that the company will continue to have a cash, the cash deposits, nearly $900 million with no debt. [Foreign language] Regarding the use of cash, we currently have sufficient cash for the company's daily operation and future development. While consolidating the financial fundamentals, we are also expecting operating cash flow to improve. The company will continue to set aside a portion of funds for potential business development and as a reserve fund for, in the event of uncertainty in the external environment. In addition, we remain open to investment projects related to the industry chain to seize related development opportunities. So we will also set aside a portion of fund accordingly. [Foreign language] At the same time, we will continue to attach importance to shareholder returns, especially cash returns to shareholders. In terms of dividends, in addition to the special dividend of $400 million announced this year, the company's management also intends to continue to share the company's profits and surpluses with our shareholders who support us in the future. Of course, the specific dividend policy, including the amount of the dividend and the timing of payout, is subject to further review and approval by the company's board of directors. In terms of repurchase, our repurchase plan has been extended to the end of March 2025, and there is currently a repurchase quota of approximately $43 million. The company will continue to consider a variety of factors, including market conditions and stock liquidity, to formulate an implementation strategy for our repurchase. Okay, thank you. Our next question comes from Ritchie Sun from HSBC. Hi, Ritchie, please go ahead. Hi, Vincent, Ashley, Hanyu [Foreign language] Thank you, management, for taking my questions. I would like to ask about the games-related services business. Can management discuss the latest progress and the expectation in the third quarter for this business? Thank you. OK [Foreign language] In the second quarter, revenue from our game-related services, advertising, and other businesses increased by 152.7 year-over-year, or 26.6% quarter-over-quarter, reaching approximately 310 million RMB, and also reached a milestone of accounting for 20% of the total revenue for the first time. The rapid development of this part of our business is closely related to our cooperation with more game titles, better utilization of live content and PGC programs, and adoption of innovative operating methods to promote business development. [Foreign language] Looking further into this question, in terms of game distribution, we continue to add coverage of evergreen games to promote the return of users of these games. Amongst recent new games, in second quarter, we mainly involved in promoting and distributing the DNF mobile game. The DNF mobile game not only ranks among the top in this year's new game, live broadcast viewing indicator numbers on Huya platform, but we also have achieved better than expected result in terms of distribution. In particular, according to current data available, the in-game spend per user of the Huya distribution channel users is significantly higher than the overall market, reflecting the high business potential of Huya platform's game users on this game. Our current initial result in game distribution are also due to our continuous efforts to create a unique distribution model based on game content. More accurately, we are able to reach users through our broadcaster groups and focus on product design optimization to increase the conversion rate of game downloads and registrations of users. [Foreign language] In the second quarter, we also started to selling items for games such as League of Legends, League of Legends Mobile, and VALORANT. For these Esports games, we innovatively integrate the sales of props with corresponding events. For example, the League of Legends Champion skins sales in Legend Cup live broadcast room received very enthusiastic response and was super popular. In terms of game advertising, we are also exploring new directions. For example, we recently launched Competing To The End, or [Foreign language], interactive variety show, which innovatively combines game promotion and entertainment content. Each episode corresponds to a different game theme, and it has currently cooperated with Ming Chao, Wuthering Waves, DNF Mobile, Eggy Party, and other games. While this program is popular among users, it can also effectively help bringing active players to the corresponding games for us. [Foreign language] It is also worth mentioning that our game-related services have also brought new sources of income for Huya's broadcasters, helping them to increase their income levels. In the first half of this year, thousands of broadcasters have received income from game distribution and prop sale services. We believe that this will also help Huya to consolidate and attract broadcasters and enhance the company's content cost to revenue correlation. [Foreign language] Summer is generally a peak season for our industry, and we are also working hard to seize corresponding opportunities. For games that have covered distributions and prop sales will cooperate according to the popularity of the games and the update, update schedule of the games, and promote related business through live broadcast content and other programs. There are also many new games coming online this summer, and we will further expand the scope of cooperation, in different game categories and with different cooperating partners. Overall, we are confident that the game related services business will continue to expand in the future. We currently expect revenue from game related services, advertising and other segments in Q3 to continue to achieve a double-digit growth compared to the second quarter. Thank you. Now we will take our last question today from Yiwen Zhang from China Renaissance. Yiwen, your line is open. [Foreign language] So thanks for taking my question. My question regarding our margin trend. So we see some fluctuation in gross margin in Q2, both sequentially and year-on-year. So we want to understand what are the reasons behind that? How should we look about future trend? Thank you. Hello, Yiwen。[Foreign language] The non-GAAP gross profit margin in the second quarter of this year was 14.2%, representing a 0.7% lower than the first quarter and 1.8% lower than the same period last year. The slight decline in gross margin in this quarter was mainly due to the decline in live broadcast revenue and the increase in the content production costs. Although the trend of live broadcast revenue has stabilized and a quarter-over-quarter decline has further narrowed, its scale is still significantly lower than the same period last year. This is mainly because our our adjustment of the live broadcast business started in the second half of last year. The year-on-year base of live broadcast revenue in the first half of the year was still high, and due to the influence of the macro and industry environment, the recovery of users' consumption willingness to reward is still low. The large investment in self-made content in the second quarter has also caused an impact, especially, we had Legend Cup and Thunder Honor Cup and other high-quality self-made events with a large scale and influence in this quarter. [Foreign language] [Foreign language] The live broadcast revenue share ratio remained basically stable this quarter, and the amount of broadcasters contract costs is also being optimized. The proportion of game-related services, advertising, and other revenue in total revenue increased from 6.2% in second quarter last year, to 16.2% in the first quarter this year, to 20% in the second quarter of this year. As it is still the early stage of our business development, we have introduced some platform-specific incentives. These will cause some fluctuations in our gross margin, but the gross margin of this part of business is still significantly higher than that of live broadcast business. So it has a positive impact on our overall gross margin performance, but it is still not big enough to offset the impact of other factors of this quarter. [Foreign language] I'd also like to point out that as a content-driven company, the content investment plays an important role in attracting and retaining users. While increasing investment in self-made content and achieving good results, we have also dynamically adjusted the expenditure of sales expenses. Therefore, sales expenses in the second quarter have been further saved, driving the overall operating expenses to decrease by 26.3% year-over-year, and 6.4% quarter-over-quarter. So from the operating profit perspective, our overall operating performance has improved compared to before, and the operating loss has narrowed both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter, and the non-GAAP operating profit is closing to a break-even point. [Foreign language] We believe that as the live broadcast revenue becomes stabilized, and its negative impact on the overall gross profit margin will gradually decrease. With the improvement of overall revenue structure, it is suspected that the gross profit margin fluctuation caused by seasonal high cost of large-scale events in Q4 will be significantly reduced. In the long run, based on a more balanced revenue structure and the optimization of broadcaster and content costs, we believe that there is still room for further improvement on our gross profit margin. As for this year, we maintain the expectation that the full year gross profit margin will increase compared to 2023, and at the same time, full year profit level will also increase. Thank you. Thank you once again for joining us today. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact Huya's Investor Relations through the contact information provided on our website or Piacente Financial Communications. This concludes today's call, and we look forward to speaking to you again next quarter. Thank you