The College of Hong Kong (HKU) shouldn’t be about to “take benefit” of worldwide college students and students dealing with difficulties in the US however it is going to simply concentrate on welcoming and nurturing expertise, its head has mentioned, revealing it was dealing with over 100 switch purposes.
Vice-chancellor Xiang Zhang, a famend scientist, advised the Put up that HKU ought to “rise above the storm” to advertise worldwide collaboration by way of expertise and deal with international challenges and never be deterred by geopolitical tensions.
Zhang additionally expressed confidence in the way forward for Hong Kong, which he mentioned ought to leverage its benefits underneath the governing precept of “one nation, two techniques” to contribute to growing China into a robust nation.
The 61-year-old faculty president, who spent nearly three many years in US academia earlier than taking over his present position at Hong Kong’s oldest college in 2018, hoped HKU would go “from power to power”, however pressured that it ought to at all times “take the excessive street” to success, not revenue from the ills of others.
“Any prime college desires to be higher. They’ll concentrate on expertise constructing, not due to geopolitics,” he mentioned in an unique interview.
“Possibly some folks take that as a handy benefit, however HKU would relatively take that as, I’d say, we welcome the expertise.”
