From July 17 to 19, the first intensive training session of Highlander's 2026 GALAXY Leadership Program was successfully launched at the Highlander Smart Innovation Park in Nantong. The company places great emphasis on building a younger management team, with a focus on cultivating young backbone talent who can deliver results and excel in business operations and management. The program spans a one-year development cycle, targeting core management personnel across all departments and promising young employees, laying a solid talent foundation for the company's strategic growth and steady business advancement. The young participants demonstrated high enthusiasm for learning, fully reflecting the team's hardworking, pragmatic, and enterprising spirit.

Foundation Courses Strengthen Financial and Business Fundamentals, Setting the Core Direction for Talent Development

The core objective of this talent program is to cultivate management talent with an AI-driven, digital mindset who can take full ownership of business performance. The first session focused on building financial and business acumen, with Dr. Ma Changfeng from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Antai College of Economics and Management and Shanghai National Accounting Institute delivering on-site lectures covering financial mindset development, corporate financing, and practical applications of various financial instruments. Senior company leaders also shared internal courses based on real business scenarios, interpreting the company's development strategy and sharing hands-on experience in capital operations — helping participants break out of siloed functional thinking and approach business management and performance through an AI-powered, digital lens.

The training featured more than just professional courses — it also included executive exchange sessions and post-class team-building activities, striking a balance between learning and team interaction, easing the pace while bringing young talent closer together.

Four-Dimensional Long-Term Training Model, Six Modules for Comprehensive Capability Enhancement

The GALAXY Leadership Program adopts a comprehensive "Assessment Onboarding + Offline Intensive Training + Online Extension + Operational Transformation" four-in-one training model, moving beyond one-off short-term training. The program incorporates practical elements such as visits to outstanding enterprises, business topic workshops, and graduation defense presentations, ensuring participants learn by doing and apply what they learn. Supporting systems including personal growth assessments, milestone learning evaluations, and performance incentive mechanisms track learning outcomes throughout the process, ensuring the development effort delivers tangible results.

The year-long curriculum is divided into six major modules, progressively addressing management capability gaps: AI Empowerment, Leadership Sandbox, Organizational Performance Management, Financial Competency, Strategy Execution & Innovation, and Marketing — helping young managers build a complete framework of business management knowledge.

Implementing the Talent Development Strategy, Relying on Young Teams to Drive the Company's Digital Transformation

As the company's various businesses continue to expand and its digital and intelligent transformation advances, young management talent with an AI mindset and the ability to deliver on business metrics is key to the company's long-term development. The official launch of the GALAXY Leadership Program marks the establishment of a standardized, institutionalized young talent cultivation system across the company.

Over the coming year, the company will continue rolling out a series of training sessions across the six capability modules, striving to build a management team that is young, well-grounded, adept with digital tools, and ready to take ownership of performance targets — building a robust talent pipeline for the company's sustained, long-term growth.

The launch is a new starting point. All participants are encouraged to thoroughly absorb the course content, put it into practice in their daily work, and translate classroom knowledge into concrete actions that drive performance — working together with the company toward steady, shared development.