Cao Yalian, Chairman of Sixunited, Attends SAIF Hong Kong Industry-Academia Salon: Advancing Financial Innovation and Upholding the Devotion of a SAIF Alumnus

Cao Yalian, Chairman of Sixunited, Attends SAIF Hong Kong Industry-Academia Salon: Advancing Financial Innovation and Upholding the Devotion of a SAIF Alumnus

From July 28th to 29th, 2025, the "Alumni Engine Program • Industry-Academia Sharing Session - Visiting Hong Kong" event hosted by Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, concluded successfully. Alumni Engine Program • Industry-Academia Sharing Session - Visiting Hong Kong The event concluded successfully. Cao Yalian, founder and chairman of Sixunited, was invited to attend as a SAIF Alumni Association director, co-chairman of the South China Alumni Association, and director of the Culture and Arts Club. He joined numerous financial elites and industry leaders in Hong Kong to explore global financial trends and new opportunities in the integration of industry and finance.

 

 

Synergy of Industry and Finance

Focusing on Hong Kong's International Financial Center

Against the backdrop of profound adjustments in the global economic landscape, Hong Kong's dual value as an "international financial hub" and a "dual circulation strategy fulcrum" has become increasingly prominent. SAIF chose Hong Kong for this event, leveraging its institutional advantages and open ecosystem that connect to global capital markets, to provide alumni with a platform to gain insights into global financial trends and expand cross-border collaborations. Zhang Yong, Vice Dean of SAIF Gathering over 40 business leaders, focusing on cutting-edge issues such as digital currency, cross-border trade, international taxation, and asset allocation to help enterprises grasp policy trends, seize new opportunities, and achieve efficient synergy between industrial capital and financial innovation in the complex and ever-changing global economic landscape.

 

Zhang Yong, Vice Dean, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 

Immersive Visits

Understanding the Core Trends of Financial Transformation

The event focused on high-density, in-depth exchanges. Chairman Cao Yalian and alumni visited top financial institutions such as the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Singapore Bank's Hong Kong branch, CITIC Securities Wealth Management (Hong Kong), and China Taiping Investment Management (Hong Kong), and participated in multiple themed forums. They experienced the pulse of the global capital market through on-site inspections and explored new logic in cross-border investment and financing and wealth management through dialogues with institutional executives. The event sparked lively discussions, blending cutting-edge insights with practical experience, providing participants with valuable industry insights. 
 

 

As an active practitioner of "technology + finance," Chairman Cao Yalian shared Sixunited's innovative achievements in AIoT and financial security during the exchange, including the independently developed EAM Enterprise Intelligent Body Management Platform This platform uploads the enterprise knowledge base locally to form an enterprise-specific AI model providing financial institutions with functions such as data protection, precise retrieval, and intelligent assistance.

 

 

Currently, the Sixunited EAM platform has been implemented in legal, medical, and financial fields, helping enterprises reduce operating costs and improve service accuracy. This achievement not only demonstrates Sixunited's forward-looking technological layout in the "AI + finance" field, but also provides financial enterprises with a digital transformation tool that can solve practical problems while ensuring core data security ”的数字化转型工具。

 

Dedication to SAIF

Jointly Creating a New Landscape of Industry-Education Integration

Chairman Cao Yalian emphasized during the event, "SAIF is not only a hall of knowledge, but also a bridge for alumni to share resources and create value together . Sixunited has always resonated with SAIF, continuously supporting the college's development and promoting cross-border cooperation and industrial upgrading among alumni enterprises." Since joining SAIF, Chairman Cao Yalian has demonstrated his dedication through actions, receiving the SAIF 2021 Contribution Award and leading Sixunited in donating over 1.5 million yuan to support the college and alumni activities, continuously empowering the alumni ecosystem.

 

Cao Yalian, Founder and Chairman, Sixunited

 

In this event, the cooperation blueprint between Sixunited and SAIF became clearer. In the future, both sides will deepen their collaboration around the "AI + Finance" strategy, accelerating the large-scale application of the EAM platform in the financial field, and helping the financial industry improve quality and efficiency. As a benchmark platform for industry-academia-research collaboration and innovation, SAIF is a key hub connecting technological value and capital value. Sixunited will work with SAIF to build an industry-education integration ecosystem with a patriotic spirit, fulfilling its mission of empowering industries with technology and promoting the digital transformation of the financial industry.