HKU Team Competing in Televised Cultural Debate Competition

An HKU team captained by Arts undergraduate student Mr Chong Shing Hei  are among the finalists in the cultural debate competition, “The World Listens to Me”. The team, which also includes Mr Huang Guanyu and Mr Lim Kam Ho, both undergraduate students from the Faculty of Business and Economics, are competing against 17 other university teams from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan in the final stage of the competition in Beijing. The team is coached by Mr Hayson Liu from the University’s School of Chinese.

Over two hundred institutions and 1,100 students took part in the preliminary rounds of the competition, which is co-organized by China Central Television (CCTV) and Taiwan’s CTi TV.  The programme will be broadcast on CCTV 4 and CTi TV from November 2016 to February 2017 and is expected to reach millions of viewers in 198 countries. 
 

Arts undergraduate student Mr Chong Shing Hei (first from left) and Mr Hayson Liu from the School of Chinese (first from right)