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The second Hong Kong and Macau Youth Education and Development Forum was held at SCNU on November 28, focusing on reflection and exploration of ways for youth education and development in Hong Kong and Macau.
Scholars at The second Hong Kong and Macau Youth Education and Development Forum
Zhuo Xionghui, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Education of SCNU, said he recognized the significant role that the Hong Kong and Macau Youth Education and Development Forum plays in promoting mutual understanding between youths from Hong Kong, Macau and the Chinese mainland. He also said that it will help enhance the national awareness and patriotism of youngsters in Hong Kong and Macau, and promote education cooperation and exchange in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The forum consisted of morning and afternoon sessions, during which participants discussed topics such as the national identity of young people in Hong Kong and Macau, cultural and educational exchange and cooperation between Hong Kong and Macau, and education reform and development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Huang Jingrong, the principal of Hong Kong Scientia Secondary School, shared his views in the morning section. He believed that reforms must be initiated in terms of educational objectives, textbook compilation, and general education, in order to cultivate the next generation to support "one country, two systems" and pairs civic literacy, humane education, state nationalism with a world vision.
The afternoon session focused on the exchange and cooperation in cultural education between hong Kong and Macao, and education reform and development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Scholars from Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China demonstrated and explained problems in youth education in Hong Kong and Macau from different angles, interpreting the purpose and direction of the reform as well as pointing out that youth education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau needs to be reshaped through reform, and should rely on the power of patriotism and love for Hong Kong. Exchange and cooperation need to be intensified between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.
At the closing ceremony of the forum, Professor Ma, the executive director of the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Education Research Center of SCNU, summarized the meeting. He said that as the organizer, the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Education Research Center of SCNU carries the mission of being a decision-making consulting research base for Guangdong province, and will continue to play the role of a think tank for education in Hong Kong and Macao into the future.
In this capacity, SCNU will continue to take on the responsibility to build a high-level exchange platform for experts and scholars from the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, and provide academic support for Hong Kong and Macau youth education research and decision-making, professor Ma added.
The conference was sponsored by the Hong Kong and Macau Youth Education Research Center of SCNU, the Decision-making Consultation Research Base of Guangdong Province, and was co-organized by the School of Education of SCNU and the Comparative Education Professional Committee of the Guangdong Higher Education Association. More than 60 representatives from 17 universities, middle schools and related research institutions from Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland participated in this forum.
Source from the School of Education
Translated by Long Yuchen, Lin Zihao
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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