An HKU team captained by Arts undergraduate student Mr Chong Shing Hei  has won the Overall First Runner-up award 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, competed against 17 other university teams from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan in the final stage of the competition which was held in Beijing. The HKU team came second to the eventual winners Dalian Polytechnic University. 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.  In addition to the Overall First Runner-up award, Mr Huang was named Best Debater in the final stage of the competition.

News Report on 13 Oct 2016, CCTV
 http://tv.cctv.com/2016/10/12/VIDEbksG1jGMd2IGUE70QOQM161012.shtml?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0

Arts undergraduate student Mr Chong Shing Hei (top right corner) and Mr Hayson Liu from the University’s School of Chinese (bottom left corner).