China News Service, Hong Kong, June 18 (Reporter Zeng Ping) In order to let people from all walks of life in Hong Kong understand the opportunities and challenges in the development of the education industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong held a roundtable on the 18th and invited a number of experts to brainstorm and discuss issues. The development direction of the education industry of primary and secondary schools in the Bay Area.

Zhang Guojun, a non-official member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Vice Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, said after the meeting that he hoped that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao would use the advantages of the Greater Bay Area to make more innovations and bold attempts in the field of education.

　　According to the results of a survey of Hong Kong people's intention to live in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area released by the Statistics Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2020, about 260,000 people are interested in living in cities in the Greater Bay Area.

In addition, in recent years, the number of Hong Kong youths going to the Mainland to study has continued to increase, and many cities in the Greater Bay Area have schools for Hong Kong and Macau children.

According to the DAB, the above situation reflects the huge demand for the education industry in the Greater Bay Area.

　　Yang Runxiong, Director of the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government; Huang Yushan, Emeritus President of The Open University of Hong Kong; Dai Xili, Special Advisor to the President of The Education University of Hong Kong; Huang Tengda, Vice President of Hong Kong Peiqiao College; meeting.

　　When meeting with the media after the meeting, Zhang Guojun said that the participants discussed the future development of the education industry in the Greater Bay Area from the macro policy and practical level, covering areas such as the integration and cooperation of local government education policies, teacher certification, and connection to higher education.

He believes that the Greater Bay Area has done more cooperation in higher education in the past, but relatively insufficient in basic education.

　　It is understood that the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), which is scheduled to officially open in September 2022, will break through the boundaries of the traditional academic framework and set up four hubs of function, information, society, and system to realize an interdisciplinary education and scientific research model.

Zhang Guojun believes that this is a very good educational experiment and attempt, which is rare in all parts of the world. He hopes that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will use the advantages of the Greater Bay Area to make more similar innovation attempts in the education field.

　　Zhang Guojun said that the DAB will actively promote the development of education in the Greater Bay Area in the future, and put forward appropriate and forward-looking policy proposals to enable students, parents, teachers and school-running institutions to seize the development opportunities in the Greater Bay Area together.

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