[Concurrent] Wu Huanjie, Principal of Hong Kong Peiqiao Middle School
Now the Education Bureau has also proposed a professional guideline, including school sponsoring organizations, including teaching staff, who will engage in education in Hong Kong in the future, what they have to abide by, what they can do, and what they can’t do. I think such a guideline is a Very good, a very clear (norm) is to let them know a boundary.
[Explanation] A few days ago, the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced the "Guidelines for Teachers' Professional Ethics", which aims to clearly explain the professional ethics and codes of conduct that teachers should have, encourage teachers to consciously abide by them, protect the well-being of students, and maintain national security and social order.
Wu Huanjie, the principal of Peiqiao Middle School in Hong Kong, said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency that national security education should start from an early age.
[Concurrent] Wu Huanjie, Principal of Hong Kong Peiqiao Middle School
So I think teenagers should start to have national security education.
Including that I am actually the director of the Hong Kong Flag Raising Team Association. We now have 346 kindergartens in Hong Kong, all of which have become our member schools, so they have already established a flag raising team in the school.
You have to know it, understand it, and then you have to know how to protect it.
We are relatively early, that is, we require our high school students to go back to the mainland for inspections, which is part of the curriculum.
Children learn about the development of the country through their field trips, and they know what they can do for the country in the future.
[Explanation] According to Cai Ruolian, Director of the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, since 2004, about 780 schools in Hong Kong have concluded more than 2,100 pairs of "sister schools" with mainland schools. Mutual visits and diversified activities.
Wu Huanjie revealed that at present, Peiqiao Middle School has more than 20 sister schools in the Mainland, many of which are located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
[Concurrent] Wu Huanjie, Principal of Hong Kong Peiqiao Middle School
First of all, we hope that when the children go to the mainland for inspections, visits, and exchanges, they will not only visit our great rivers and mountains, not only visit some enterprises, but also hope that they can meet some children of the same age.
We want to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the people of the future Bay Area are actually them.
Therefore, through the pairing of sister schools, mutual visits and exchanges between students, they become friends in the Bay Area.
[Explanation] In Wu Huanjie's view, Hong Kong, as an important window of China, has never been absent in all stages of the country's development.
Therefore, Hong Kong students should also actively participate in and integrate into the development process of the country.
[Concurrent] Wu Huanjie, Principal of Hong Kong Peiqiao Middle School
Therefore, any major event in the country should be a student from Hong Kong. He must participate and understand.
Including that when we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, we are also very honored that our students can become representatives of Hong Kong, went to Tiananmen Square, and participated in a parade on our "one country, two systems" float, which is in power in China On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, we also had a student at that time, and he was honored to be a student representative in Hong Kong and went to Tiananmen Square.
[Explanation] As Hong Kong has been endowed with a new position as a "Chinese and foreign cultural and art exchange center" in recent years, connecting the inside and outside and communicating with the East and West has become the new mission of the "Pearl of the Orient".
Wu Huanjie believes that on this point, Hong Kong's education sector has great potential.
[Concurrent] Wu Huanjie, Principal of Hong Kong Peiqiao Middle School
We want to let the children in Hong Kong know more about the development of our country and our traditional Chinese culture.
With such cultural confidence and cultural background, they can use English to preach to young people all over the world and tell the story of China well.
In addition to educating young people in Hong Kong well, will we introduce some children of overseas Chinese to Hong Kong to receive education in our Chinese culture and traditional culture?
It also allows them to develop in their own country, whether it is in Southeast Asia or in the "Belt and Road" countries, so that they can better integrate with China.
So I think that through education, we can build this bridge and reconnect everyone.
[Explanation] Engaged in education for many years, Wu Huanjie has witnessed the changes in Hong Kong education. In recent years, Hong Kong has introduced the secondary school diploma examination, and the education system is gradually in line with the mainland.
Talking about the future of education in Hong Kong, Wu Huanjie believes that technological innovation is one of the key points of future development.
[Concurrent] Wu Huanjie, Principal of Hong Kong Peiqiao Middle School
Therefore, innovation and technology education should actually be a focus of Hong Kong's future.
Now there are five universities in Hong Kong, which are among the top 100 in the world, so Hong Kong should also have five national laboratories. Among the different universities in Hong Kong, Hong Kong also has more than 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Such a technological resource should be made good use of.
Moreover, relatively speaking, Hong Kong is relatively free in terms of information, capital, and talent flow. This is actually some advantage of a place that can vigorously promote the development of innovation and technology, so I think Hong Kong’s education should take this area in the future. .
Reporter Fan Siyi and Luo Siyu report from Hong Kong
Responsible editor: [Song Fangcan]