Christine Choi touts university town on Shanghai visit
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Summary
Education Secretary Christine Choi Yuk-lin continued her official visit to Shanghai on Monday morning, where she met Shanghai education and health officials and promoted Hong Kong’s planned Northern Metropolis University Town. The visit also included discussions on higher education cooperation, vocational training links and Hong Kong’s role in national development, before she returned to Hong Kong later the same day
Key Points
- Choi met Jiang Fan, Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Working Committee of Education and Health, in Shanghai on Monday morning
- Their talks covered cross-boundary higher education cooperation, alignment with national development blueprints, and expanded vocational training partnerships between Hong Kong and Shanghai
- Choi said the Northern Metropolis University Town is being planned as a platform for Hong Kong to connect with the country’s upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan
- She said the campus cluster would help strengthen Hong Kong’s position as an international education hub and invited leading Mainland and overseas institutions to explore development there
- Choi also said she hoped Shanghai institutions would build regular partnerships with Hong Kong’s emerging universities of applied sciences for study exchanges and internships
Why It Matters
The Shanghai meetings show how the government is linking higher education planning in the Northern Metropolis with wider national development and cross-boundary cooperation goals. If the proposed partnerships advance, Hong Kong students could gain more applied learning and internship opportunities through closer institutional ties with Shanghai