• 90 • these two weeks, there are numerous seminars, talks, visits and many other social activities. At the end of the program, students will have to submit a report on what they have learnt and what insights they have gained. I was lucky to have the honor to participate in the 2002 and 2010 CC-ZJU Student Visitor Program. From these two individual years’ attendance, I have noticed quite a number of interesting changes. Each year, the CC-ZJU Student Visitor Program has a specific theme. From the different themes in year 2002 and year 2010, I observed how Hong Kong and Mainland circumstances have progressed. The theme in 2002 was “How Undergraduates Build a New World – To Review the Present, To Project into the Future”. With China’s accession to WTO in 2001, China started to open itself to the world. It became important for university students to take a more active role in helping the country to advance and connect to the world. During the two weeks in 2002, the students had a number of in depth seminars and discussions on the economic effect of China’s accession to WTO, the economic relation between Mainland China and Hong Kong, the development of Hong Kong, as well as China’s education system. The writer (left) accompanied the students touring the campus of Zhejiang University in 2002 The participants of the 2002 Program A student seminar in the 2002 Program
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