Company: DDC
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001213900-25-077440
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Company: DDC Enterprise Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form: S-8
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 Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). ☐

<div align='center'>EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>

DDC Enterprise Limited, a company incorporated
under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company,” “DDC,” “we” or “our”),
has prepared this registration statement in accordance with the requirements of Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”)
under the Securities Act, to register (i) 1,300,000 ordinary shares, $0.4 par value per share, of the Company (the “Ordinary Share(s)”) that are reserved for issuance or may become issuable in respect of share options, restricted shares and other
securities under the 2023 Employee Share Option Plan (the “2023 ESOP”); (ii) 191,891 Ordinary Shares, $0.4 par
value per Ordinary Share, that are reserved for issuance or may become issuable in respect of share options under the Employee Share Option
Plan of the Company authorized prior to the consummation of the initial public offering of the Company (the “IPO”)
on November 21, 2023 (the “Pre-IPO Employee Share Option Plan”); and (iii) 65,000 Ordinary Shares, $0.4 par
value per Ordinary Share, that are reserved for issuance or may become issuable in respect of share options that were granted outside
of the 2023 ESOP as inducement grants pursuant to NYSE listing rule 303A.08 (the “Inducement Grants”).

<div align='center'>PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</div>

Item 1. Plan Information.

The documents containing the information specified
in Part I of the instructions to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants in the 2023 ESOP, the Pre-IPO
Employee Share Option Scheme and the Inducement Grants as required by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated under the Securities Act. Such documents
are not required to be, and are not, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), either
as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These
documents, and the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of