Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
The Education Bureau (EDB) and the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) held the Closing cum Award Presentation Ceremony of the Biliteracy and Trilingualism Campaign 2025 today (June 27) to celebrate the success of activities in promoting biliteracy and trilingualism across various sectors of society over the past six months.
Officiating at the ceremony, the Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin, said in her speech that Hong Kong, as an international metropolis where East meets West, requires a large pool of biliterate and trilingual talent to demonstrate its important role as a “super connector”. This is also crucial to consolidating its status as an international education hub in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. She emphasised that mastering biliteracy and trilingualism is essential for realising Hong Kong’s development of the “eight centres” as outlined in the National 14th Five-Year Plan, and for seizing opportunities arising from the Belt and Road Initiative and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Under “one country, two systems”, biliteracy and trilingualism stands as one of the advantages of education in Hong Kong.