Investing in Her Power | Cinda Asia-Pacific Fund's Zhang Lijie: Staying true to the original intention with gentleness, accompanying shared prosperity with professionalism, and making investment warm

Spring breezes bring warmth, and youth blossoms. On International Women’s Day, a beautiful moment to honor women’s strength, Cailian News turns its focus to the financial asset management sector, highlighting female executives in public mutual funds who stand out through professionalism, gentle empowerment, and a sense of responsibility. They navigate market fluctuations with keen insight, deepen industry development with resilience, and write the “her style” in the financial field with柔性力量, becoming an indispensable backbone for high-quality development in the public fund industry.

Zhang Lijie, Deputy General Manager of Xinda Aoyou Fund and a representative of the Shanghai People’s Congress, is one of these outstanding figures. As a female manager with many years of experience in asset management, she injects human warmth into the financial world composed of numbers and curves with gentle yet firm strength; in the waves of opportunities and challenges, she demonstrates female responsibility, interpreting the unique connotations of finance for us.

Public funds have been around for 25 years, evolving from scale expansion to quality cultivation, connecting millions of households’ wealth with the real economy amid the tide of the times. In Zhang Lijie’s view, the essence of finance has never been cold numbers but is rooted in professionalism and driven by warmth. As an industry insider and builder, she firmly believes that true long-termism is about perfecting expertise, hiding kindness in details, and accompanying investors through cycles while patiently waiting for blossoms.

Today, as technology and data reshape the industry, women’s unique brilliance shines even brighter. In an asset management industry centered on rationality and data, female executives leverage innate empathy,细腻感, and resilience to build their distinctive core competitiveness. Zhang Lijie says that gentleness is never weakness; empathy,细腻感, and resilience are women’s inherent “soft skills.” Compared to extreme rationality, they are better at perceiving investors’ real needs beyond models and algorithms: more thoughtful in retirement planning, more comprehensive in product design, and more reassuring in volatile markets. Combining柔性与刚性 is not compromise but a leadership style with greater温度.

Regarding industry stereotypes about female professionals, Zhang Lijie has a deep and clear understanding. Many see women in public funds as being overly conservative and lacking high elasticity in investment decisions. She admits that when she was a fund manager, she was often asked similar questions. But she believes that women’s inherent caution, seriousness, and细腻感 are never shortcomings; instead, they are rare qualities in asset management. This trait made her more focused on risk control and maintaining bottom lines when managing money market funds. It was this严谨与专注 that helped her win the “Golden Bull Award” and is her core advantage in safeguarding returns and peace of mind for investors.

Professionalism knows no gender; performance is the best business card. Not defined by labels or bound by prejudice, standing on strength and pursuing初心 is the greatest respect. This is the shared conviction of countless women in finance.

Holding dual roles as a fund manager and a People’s Congress representative, Zhang Lijie always keeps “responsibility” in her heart. She cares about养老金融, hoping to use her expertise to protect people’s retirement savings; she focuses on new productive forces, expecting capital to fuel technological innovation; she is concerned about the industry ecosystem, actively offering suggestions and advice as a representative to promote high-quality industry development.

To optimize the industry ecosystem, Zhang Lijie proposed a key suggestion: to build Shanghai into a highland for asset management科技人才, focusing on attracting and培养“投研+科技”复合型人才, recommending that Shanghai include public fund科技人才 in high-end金融人才 plans, offering incentives for residence, housing, and education; supporting universities to establish majors like “Financial Technology” and “Quantitative Investment,” and jointly building internship bases with public funds to cultivate versatile talent; meanwhile, encouraging public funds to set up科技子公司, focusing on AI large models, quantitative algorithms, and frontier技术研发, to全面提升行业核心竞争力.

In her view, finance is more than just收益; it is about善用财富,实现价值, so that ordinary people can share in the dividends of the era. Looking ahead to the next five years, opportunities and challenges will coexist. New productive forces will bring broad tracks, and technological革新 will reshape industry patterns. Zhang Lijie believes that those who truly traverse cycles are always grounded in solid投研,稳健底线, and sincere陪伴. The implementation of个人养老金, the growth of居民财富, and the rise of绿色与科创 are all illuminating the long-term direction for the industry.

“Maintain初心 with professionalism, endure cycles with价值, respect the市场 with谨慎, and treat持有人 with善意.” This is Zhang Lijie’s professional belief and her gentle promise to every investor. She hopes that in the next 25 years, public funds can become more companions on everyone’s wealth journey, making professionalism visible,努力被珍视, and warmth and trust the most compelling colors of the asset management industry.

To young women aspiring in the finance industry, Zhang Lijie offers sincere words: have lofty ambitions, keep your eyes bright, stand on professionalism, and move forward with passion. May everyone shine in their careers, live freely and comfortably, love their work, love life, and love themselves. In their own seasons, grow passionately and bloom gently.