GCSTIMES recently officially announced the completion of a Series A funding round. This round was led by the Tiancheng Yueke Fund, established with participation from Tongcheng Travel, with Shenzhen Lihui Fund following as a co-investor. This investment not only represents recognition of the company's prospects but will also inject strong momentum into its R&D breakthroughs and global layout within the field of green intelligent technology.
Strategic New Heights: Capital Empowerment Drives Dual-Core Strategy
Amidst the current wave of digitalization, intelligentization, and green transformation sweeping the global accommodation industry, GCSTIMES has always regarded technological innovation as its core competitiveness. The completion of this strategic funding round marks a key milestone for the company and anchors a new strategic path of "Green and Digital Intelligence" with dual-core drive.
We are acutely aware that future industry competition will hinge on comprehensive capabilities in low-carbon operations and digital-intelligent security. GCSTIMES will seize this opportunity to accelerate investment and deployment in these two core areas, collaborating with ecosystem partners to build a more integrated and forward-looking travel living experience.
Green Engine: Leading Sustainable Development with Core Strengths
GCSTIMES views sustainable development as a core mission. We have not only fulfilled our own corporate carbon neutrality commitment but are also dedicated to translating cutting-edge technology into accessible low-carbon transition pathways for our accommodation partners.
The company's sustainable development management system has received high recognition from internationally recognized bodies, positioning GCSTIMES as a leading enterprise within the industry that has completed a full-chain, "from operations to product" carbon neutrality closed loop.
ISO 14068-1 Carbon Neutrality Verification Statement: Notably, this marks SGS China’s first ISO 14068-1 carbon neutrality verification statement presented within the hotel supplies sector, a milestone achievement.
EcoVadis Silver Status: The company successfully achieved the internationally recognized EcoVadis Silver Status in 2025, with a rating placing it among the top 15% of all companies assessed globally.
GCSTIMES firmly believes that the imperative for green practices inherently drives innovation. Leveraging over a hundred core patents, we translate sustainability commitments into competitive advantages for our travel accommodation clients.
Technically, through structural optimization and materials science, we optimize products to the extreme in terms of lightweight design, recyclability, and energy consumption control, ensuring that every green design delivers quantifiable carbon reduction effects. In terms of value, from providing full life-cycle low-carbon products to clear carbon footprint accounting, we help the accommodation industry transform environmental investments from a "cost item" into quantifiable brand assets.
Digital Intelligence & Security: Forward-Looking Deployment of AI Agents
Security is the bottom line for accommodation; digital intelligence is the future of security. In GCSTIMES's vision, future security in the accommodation industry should not be isolated technical protection but should evolve into an intelligent ecosystem that drives the synergistic evolution of overall operations. To this end, we are proactively deploying artificial intelligence (AI), committed to building an active, intelligent, and evolvable security system.
We are building a "Smart Security Kernel" for hotels based on multi-dimensional scenario data. This system possesses the capability for continuous evolution, enabling not only predictive maintenance of equipment status and precise identification of anomalous behaviors but also establishing a risk-proactive immunity mechanism through algorithm self-optimization. Security thus no longer relies solely on manual inspections but transforms into a foundational service, as ubiquitous, seamless, and reliable as the air.
By breaking down data silos, we enable information to flow securely and controllably across the entire domain. This upgrades the overall operations of the accommodation industry from "point-based response" to "global linkage." This not only significantly enhances emergency response efficiency but also reshapes the work paradigm for back-end coordination, making security the intelligent cornerstone supporting refined and integrated operations in the accommodation industry.
Capital Empowerment: Co-creating a New Business Format for the Accommodation Industry
Standing at the starting point of a new round of industry transformation, GCSTIMES is now equipped with dual engines: "Green" and "Digital Intelligence." We firmly believe that investing in the sustainable development of our planet is an investment in personal safety and, moreover, an investment in the future of the industry.
We join hands with global partners to write a new chapter for the accommodation industry. One that is more sustainable, more secure, and imbued with greater humanistic care.
