Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students ‘Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Foshan’ Unveils a New Chapter of Nurturing High-Level Talents for the Greater Bay Area

On 10 September, the third Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students -Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students(Foshan) held a plaque unveiling ceremony and inauguration ceremony, marking the birth of a new pattern of construction and development of ASJ   ‘one door, three schools’. 2021, the century-old overseas Chinese university Since 2021, the century-old overseas university Jinan University has fully integrated the application of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao high-quality educational resources, and successfully founded three Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Guangzhou) in Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Foshan, which created the ‘Jinan’ brand of co-operation in the provision of basic education. Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students is committed to cultivating innovative talents in the Greater Bay Area, serving the children of overseas Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and expatriates in the Bay Area as well as in the whole country, and channelling talents to promote the construction of a high-level talent highland in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Guangzhou)

Recently, the ‘Guangdong Theme Day’ of the China International Fair for Trade in Services 2023, hosted by the People's Government of Guangdong Province and organised by the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, was held in Beijing. At the meeting, the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province released 11 excellent cases of trade in services in 2023, covering a number of important areas such as digital technology, industrial design, cultural trade and so on. Among them, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Guangzhou) won the ‘2023 Outstanding Case Study on Trade in Services in Guangdong’ for its innovative exploration of taking the Hong Kong curriculum as the core, national education as the foundation, using the IB curriculum concept throughout teaching, using the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) examination curriculum system in the senior high school stage, and providing diversified channels of further study in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas for students, so as to promote the construction of the Model District on International Education in the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area. Outstanding Case of Guangdong Trade in Services in 2023".

Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Guangzhou) won the ‘2023 Guangdong Outstanding Case of Trade in Services’.

The opening of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Guangzhou) marks the completion of the development of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students in Guangzhou, Dongguan and Foshan, and the three schools will be fully integrated to give full play to the positioning of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students   to provide quality education services for the children of Hong Kong and Macao Students. The three schools will also fully integrate and give full play to the positioning of ‘JIU Hong Kong and Macao Children's Schools’, providing quality education services for overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and expatriates, and making new contributions to the prosperous development of the Greater Bay Area.

The Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students(Foshan) is located in Nanhai, which is a key educational project for the province in 2023, with a total investment of about 350 million RMB, covering an area of 46 acres. The school can accommodate nearly 1,200 students, covering pre-school to high school, and is the first 15-year consistent School for Hong Kong and Macao Students in Foshan.

Since its establishment, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students(Foshan) has continued to promote the exchange of talents between Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Foshan. In the future, the school will give full play to the advantages of the ‘one door, three schools’ pattern, provide more services benefiting Hong Kong and Macao people, and enhance the happiness and sense of belonging of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots and their children.

The university will adopt the development positioning of "the Tradition of Jinan University, the Vision for the Greater Bay Area, and the Characteristics of Hong Kong and Macao." Building upon the century-old legacy of Jinan University as an institution dedicated to overseas Chinese education, it aims to become a benchmark for basic education cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The university is committed to nurturing students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities into steadfast patriots who consciously uphold national unity, while cultivating ethnic Chinese and international students into young cultural ambassadors who understand and cherish Chinese culture and actively promote exchanges between China and the rest of the world.

Under the attention and support of leaders at all levels in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao as well as all sectors of the society, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students(Foshan) has finally taken root and grown up in the hot land of ‘Lingnan culture, unceasingly growing’, and the national flag-raising ceremony was held before the inauguration ceremony and opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was preceded by a national flag-raising ceremony, and kicked off with a performance of ‘Lion Dance’, one of the traditional Lingnan cultures, in which the children performed ‘Lion Dance Exercise’ which highlighted the charm of Nanhai Lion Dance and demonstrated the spirit of Nanhai in the new era.

Lion Dance

Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) from the site selection, foundation stone laying, to the roof, the opening of the construction process, the Chairman of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Guangzhou) Deng Qiangguang are involved in the whole process, but also witnessed the Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students from Guangzhou, Dongguan to the opening of the process of the ‘one door, three schools’ in Foshan, he said with emotion, the years Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students can be rapidly developed and expanded because the country has always been highly concerned about the growth and progress of young people from Hong Kong and Macao, has been promoting the integration and development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area, in order to cultivate the country's need for academic problems. In his speech, he said with emotion that the rapid development and growth of JIU's Hong Kong and Macao Children's School over the years is due to the fact that the state has been paying great attention to the growth and progress of the youth in Hong Kong and Macao, and has been promoting the integration and development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Speech by Deng Qiangguang, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students

‘Looking ahead, we are full of confidence because we have caught up with a new era, a good era.’ Deng Qiangguang said, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students was taken by the relevant departments of the State Council as the best case of comprehensively deepening the innovation of trade in services for the national experience promotion. Thanks to Foshan for this opportunity, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) will definitely strive to become a new typical and front-runner of education reform in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area.

School Playground

As the first government-founded supreme university for overseas Chinese in China, Jinan University has actively followed the trend of the times, responded to the ‘Outline of the Plan for the Development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area’ and other policies, given full play to its own strengths, integrated the resources of the community, and proactively devoted itself to the cause of basic education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, and continuously explored ways of exchanges and integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao's basic education, and has trained 400,000 talented people from over 170 countries, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan on five continents since its establishment. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 400,000 talents from more than 170 countries in the five continents, as well as from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) has not only injected new vitality into international education in Foshan, but also promoted more co-operation in the field of education. On 2 April this year, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) and Shimen Middle School signed the ‘Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Students' Talent Joint Cultivation Plan’. In the future, the two schools will collaborate in resource sharing, teacher interaction and other aspects, integrating the respective advantages of the two schools, to achieve strategic win-win situation, to promote the circulation of talents in Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan), and to build up a new model of innovative cultivation of high-quality students.

Speech by Lin Rupeng, Party Secretary of Jinan University

Regarding the future development of the Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan), Professor Lin Rupeng, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jinan University, emphasized that the university has actively responded to the Greater Bay Area's need for specialized schools catering to students from Hong Kong and Macao. In collaboration with partners like Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour Education Group, the school adheres to the development philosophy of "the Tradition of Jinan University, the Vision for the Greater Bay Area, and the Characteristics of Hong Kong and Macao."

By fully integrating the unique resources of Jinan University as a prestigious institution for overseas Chinese education and leveraging high-quality educational assets across Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, the university has successfully established three affiliated schools in Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Foshan. This "One Brand, Three Campuses" initiative has not only established JNU's flagship model in cross-border basic education cooperation but has also set a benchmark for integrated educational development in the Greater Bay Area.

Speech by Huang Shaowen, Vice Mayor of Foshan

Huang Shaowen, Vice Mayor of Foshan City, who attended the inauguration ceremony, said that as a key city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Foshan, in order to take the new road of catching up, must accelerate exchanges and co-operation with Hong Kong and Macao in education, and promote the high-quality development of education, so as to build a highland of talent and education. The opening of the first School for Hong Kong and Macao Students in Foshan is not only an important initiative to strengthen the cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao in education, but also a livelihood project to meet the needs of the country, the expectations of the Bay Area, the capabilities of Foshan, Hong Kong and Macao, which is conducive to attracting more talents from Hong Kong and Macao to come to settle in Foshan and develop in Foshan, and to attracting more Hong Kong and Macao youths to come to Foshan to innovate and start their own businesses.

"Foshan City departments at all levels should actively support the development of the school, and work together to do a good job in this livelihood project, and also hope that the school will make good use of the advantages of the “one door, three schools” of the Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students, take advantage of the strategic layout of the Greater Bay Area, actively participate in the exchanges and co-operation in the field of education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and rely on the Foshan's local culture at home and abroad, in-depth excavation of the Lingnan vein of deep historical and cultural connotations, the formation of the school's unique schooling characteristics and campus traditional culture." Huang Shaowen said.

The Affiliated School for Hong Kong and Macao Students of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students, on the premise of complying with the relevant national policies, uses the examination forms, teaching contents and teaching methods that are basically the same as those of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong and Macao, and employs Hong Kong and Macao teachers, so as to explore a new mode of integrating the development of basic education in the three places. As one of the 17 best practice cases in the country, it provides reference for all parts of the country in the work of innovative development of trade in services.

Zhu Chaohua, First Class Inspector of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, delivered a speech.

‘Today, I am very pleased to see that on the basis of the successful experience of the two Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students in Guangzhou and Dongguan, the successful case will be replicated and landed in Foshan in a short period of time.’ Zhu Chaohua, first-class inspector of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, said he hoped that Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) could further give full play to the special advantages of the institutional mechanism and actively explore new paths and modes of integration and development of education in the three places, so as to provide better education services for the students who are attending the school. It is hoped that the school will continue to improve the quality of education and teaching, build a brand, adhere to the original heart and mission of running a school, and make a speciality in promoting the integrated development of education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area. The school will take moral education as its foundation and cultivate Hong Kong and Macao students to become patriots who consciously support ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, and work hard to make progress.

New look of the school

Speech by Li Huanchun, Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Guangdong Province

‘I hope that Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) will be based on a new starting point, inherit a good tradition, explore a good way, and continue to make new and greater achievements.’ Participating in the inauguration ceremony of the Guangdong Provincial Office of Hong Kong and Macao Li Huanchun, director of the message that the first is to promote exchanges, grasp the new opportunities for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, deepen exchanges and cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao schools to complement each other's strengths and advantages, and actively explore successful paths to the development of high-quality international basic education for the Greater Bay Area. The second is to focus on heritage, adhere to carry forward the fine tradition of patriotism, digging into the lion, dragon boat, martial arts, food, Chinese herbal medicine and other local cultural elements of Foshan, thick planting family and national sentiment, and hammering hard skills, and always with the country in the same direction, and with the people in the same heart. Thirdly, nurturing talents, implementing the strategy of strengthening the country through education, reinforcing quality education from early childhood to the important period of high school, aiming to cultivate outstanding students and young talents who are familiar with the Greater Bay Area and have an international outlook, and continuously cultivating outstanding students who meet the requirements of the new era, so as to deliver talents for promoting the construction of a high-level talent highland in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Dr Choi Io Lin, Secretary for Education of Hong Kong, and Mr Gong Zhi Ming, Secretary for Education and Youth Development of Macao, delivered speeches in the form of video and other congratulatory messages.

The Secretary for Education of Hong Kong, Dr Choi Jorian, and the Secretary for Education and Youth Development of Macao, Mr Gong Zhiming, also made congratulatory speeches in the form of video and other forms. Dr Choi said that in recent years, more and more compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao have come to work and live in the cities in the Greater Bay Area, and there is a growing demand for education services. The establishment of the Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) is of great significance in providing quality education for Hong Kong and Macao Students, and in further enhancing the flow of talents in the Greater Bay Area; and Secretary González said that the location of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao is similar, and the hearts of people are connected, and that with the integration and development of the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, the young people of Hong Kong and Macao continue to integrate into the Bay Area construction. Hong Kong and Macao youths continue to integrate into the construction of the Bay Area. The opening of the Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students further solves the problems of enrolment and advancement of Hong Kong and Macao relocated children in the Mainland, and at the same time provides diversified choices for Macao's young students.

Speech by Zhang Ye, Chief Principal of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan)

"As the third Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) Students in China founded under the guidance of Jinan University, Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) Students will also continue to carry on the tradition of schooling and core values of JNU, and lead by JNU's spirit of “Loyalty, Faithfulness, Dutifulness, and Respect” to shoulder the educational mission of passing on and promoting Chinese culture, so that every student can integrate into the world as soon as he or she walks out of the school." Zhang Ye, Chief Principal of Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan), said.

The school also solemnly appointed Hong Kong and Macao celebrities with Foshan ancestry, such as Starry Lee, Su Changrong, Ma Zhicheng and Huo Qifeng, as ‘Honorary Managers’, as well as Hong Kong education celebrities, such as Wong Kam-leung and Chan Wai-kai, as well as domestic and Foshan local well-known education experts, such as Wang Dengjun, Li Weidong, Huang Xingu and Chen Zefang as the school's academic advisers to assist the school's quality development and to provide support for the development of the school. The school's high quality development. At the same time, the school has also formed a ‘partner school’ with Wong Kam Fai Primary and Secondary School, an affiliated school of the Hong Kong Baptist University, to join hands in promoting exchanges and growth among students in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

The whole audience sang ‘My Motherland and I’

Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong and Macao Students (Foshan) is committed to nurturing innovative talents in the Greater Bay Area and encouraging students to think proactively and discover the spirit of innovation. The School Scholarship Programme for the 2023-2024 academic year was presented at the meeting, and the winning students took the stage to receive their awards. Representatives of students, teachers and parents also offered words of blessing for the school.