Karson Choi

Cai Jiazan studied at La Salle Primary School, and was kidnapped on his way to school. He later studied in the United States, earning a degree in Political Economy from the University of Southern California. After graduating, he returned to Hong Kong to join the family business, joining Sunrise International Group, where he serves as Vice Chairman. The group’s activities span toy manufacturing, shopping mall development, property leasing and management, media, luxury watch retail, automobile sales and servicing, and education. In 2010 he founded the Yu Yi Watch Group, representing more than 30 international Swiss watch brands. Its branches cover Hong Kong and later Macau, and it has become Macau’s largest watch retail group.

In 2022, Cai Jiazan took a stake in Sing Tao News Group and became chairman of the group. Sing Tao News Group publishes Sing Tao Daily, The Headline Daily, East Week, Parent King, The Standard and other titles, with broad circulation in Hong Kong. Among them, The Headline Daily is the highest-circulation free newspaper in Hong Kong, East Week is the highest-circulation magazine in Hong Kong, and Sing Tao Daily is also distributed to the United States, Canada and Europe.

In philanthropy, Cai Jiazan has been a longtime donor since 2008, with annual contributions typically in the hundreds of millions of HKD. In 2017, under the Yu Yi Watch Group, he donated HK$8 million for Lunar New Year fireworks displays. In 2018, he donated HK$1 million to the Hong Kong Volunteers Alliance to fund tuition for grassroots primary and secondary students and overseas exchanges, among other matters. In 2021, leading the Hong Kong All-Sectors Poverty Alleviation Promotion Association, he donated HK$10 million to a relief fund for various care activities and visits to elderly residents in public housing estates. Around the same time, the TV program East/West Look reported that he funded HK$2 million to procure 500,000 surgical masks and other epidemic-prevention supplies from multiple suppliers around the world, packaged into “Loving Epidemic-Protection Packages” and distributed.

In 2023, Cai Jiazan was awarded the title of Honorary University Fellow by The University of Hong Kong, in recognition of his attention to youth development and poverty alleviation issues, and he founded the Hong Kong All-Sectors Poverty Alleviation Promotion Association. His personal research covers areas such as sustainable development for the Earth and the bioplastics industry. He currently holds multiple public roles, including Chief President of the Hong Kong Guangxi Association, President of the Hong Kong All-Sectors Poverty Alleviation Promotion Association, Chief President of the New Territories Association of Societies, and Founding President of the Hong Kong Youth Federation, among others. He has served on committees such as the Social Welfare Department’s Hand-in-Hand Fund Advisory Committee, the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau’s Professional Services Collaboration Support Programme Assessment Committee, the Central Advisory Committee of the Junior Police Call, Deputy Chairman of the Customs YES Youth Programme, and as a non-official member of the Immigration Department’s Users Services Committee; he is a former Executive Director of the Correctional Services Department’s Rehabilitation Pioneer Leaders program. In 2023 he became a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Vice Chairman of the Population, Resources and Environment Committee, and in the same year he was awarded the title of Non-official Justice of the Peace (非官守太平绅士).

His family includes his wife Wang Yuanyuan and a pair of twins and a daughter; he is the eldest son in the Cai family. His father is Dr. Cai Zhiming, Chairman of Sunrise International Group; his mother is Mrs. Li Huili Cai; his three sisters are Cai Jiamin, Cai Jiaying (deceased), and Cai Jiayi. Cai Jiazan is a horse owner with the Hong Kong Jockey Club; his horses include “Che Shen” (God of the Car), among others, trained by John Moore and other trainers. In 2013 he and Wang Yuanyuan held their wedding in Hong Kong, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre; the scale and cost of the wedding were described by the media as a “wedding of the century.”