Event Highlight | CUHK wins seven awards at the National & Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competitions – Hong Kong Regional Award Ceremony 2023

ORKTSMs. Lillian Cheong, Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry (back row, centre), Dr. Thomas So, Executive Director of Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association (back row, seventh from right), Prof. Benny Zee, Director of the ORKTS, CUHK (back row, seventh from left), and the CUHK award recipients. (Photo: HKNGCA)

Student representatives from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received a total of seven awards at the National & Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competitions – Hong Kong Regional Award Ceremony 2023: three gold prizes, one silver prize and one bronze prize in the 9th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition; a first prize in the 10th “Chuang Qing Chun” Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition; and a third prize in the 18th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest.

Director of CUHK’s Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services Professor Benny Zee said, “As a leading, comprehensive research university in Asia, CUHK has always attached great importance to contributing to the development of Hong Kong and our country through research, innovation and the cultivation of talents. The various innovation and entrepreneurship competitions at the Greater Bay Area and National level are excellent platforms for students to showcase their research outcomes and entrepreneurial ideas, laying the foundation for them to become future innovation leaders. I hope that CUHK students will continue to participate and achieve great success in future competitions.”

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CUHK’s Mag Med Biotech team wins a gold prize in the 9th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and first prize in the 10th “Chuang Qing Chun” Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (Photo: HKNGCA)
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Yan Junyan (right) and Qiu Yufu (left), students of CUHK’s Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, receive the gold prize in the 9th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (Photo: HKNGCA)
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Prof. Ma Xin (Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK; first from left) and his students Wang Xuchen (second from left) and Lin Hongbin (first from right) receive the gold prize in the 9th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (Photo: HKNGCA)
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Prof. Tang Ming-kuen Patrick (Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, CUHK; first from right) and his students Chan Kam-kwan (centre), Li Siu-fan Jane (third from right) and Ji Zeyuan (second from right) receive the silver prize in the 9th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (Photo: HKNGCA)
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Chong Hio-lam (left) and Cheung Ka-man (centre), students of CUHK’s Department of Chemistry, receive third prize in the 18th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest. (Photo: HKNGCA)

The National & Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competitions – Hong Kong Regional Award Ceremony was organised by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association (HKNGCA). This year, awards were presented at the ceremony to the Hong Kong representative teams in four competitions: the 18th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest, the 9th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the 10th “Chuang Qing Chun” Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the 6th Beijing – Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Cup.

 

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CPRO Press Release: CUHK wins seven awards at the National & Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competitions – Hong Kong Regional Award Ceremony 2023 | CUHK Communications and Public Relations Office