On the evening of September 30, Pang Donglai founder Yu Donglai announced on his personal social media account that from March 2027, employees and management will work five days a week, seven hours a day, 35 hours in total, extending two-day weekends to ordinary employees.
On September 13, 2026, the founder of Pang Donglai, Yu Donglai, posted a statement on social media stating that the company will designate newly hired employees as “trainees”, set the contract term to four years with no renewal, and employees who do not meet the training goals will not receive a qualification certificate; the list of qualified employees will be publicly searchable on the company’s website. This measure aims to cultivate employees’ life philosophy, independent personality and technical skills, in line with the enterprise’s talent development plan.
On August 14, 2026, Henan retail enterprise Pangdonglai released a public recruitment notice, announcing targeted hiring of 100 retired border defense soldiers and 20 released prisoners who had served sentences of five years or more.
On August 10, 2026, Pang Dong Lai disclosed two cases where employees were harassed while stopping queue-jumping and unauthorized electricity use. The company announced compensation ranging from 10,000 to 50,000 yuan for the humiliated employees, revoked the membership of the perpetrators, and initiated civil lawsuits.
On August 7, 2026, Pang Dong Lai founder Yu Donglai announced that the Xuchang Life Plaza store, which has been in operation for 24 years and earns annual profits of over 100 million yuan, falls below the baseline of fairness because of its historical lease, and will officially close and exit after the lease expires in December 2026.
On June 10, 2026, Pangdonglai founder Yu Donglai said at an internal sharing session that high pay can easily lead to excessive pampering, sparking pay-cut speculation; he subsequently posted a clarification stating that the company has no pay-cut policy and urging people not to misread it.