More than 3,800 Hong Kong students receive funding to enter mainland universities to a new high

In the 2020/21 school year, the government issued about 49 million yuan to subsidize 3,833 Hong Kong students to enter mainland institutions. Only half of them were students enrolled in the HKDSE admission program. The overall number of beneficiaries increased by nearly 20% compared with the previous school year.

Among the beneficiaries this academic year, about 35% are enrolled in Guangzhou Jinan University, and Huaqiao University, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine are also popular.

In the 2020/21 academic year, the Government’s "Mainland University Advancement Subsidy Scheme" issued about 49 million yuan to subsidize 3,833 Hong Kong students to study in Mainland universities.

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3,833 people were approved and the government issued a total of 49 million yuan in subsidies

The Education Bureau today (18) replied in writing to legislators’ enquiries that in the 2020/21 academic year, the "Mainland University Advancement Funding Scheme" received 4,277 applications, of which nearly 90%, or 3,833, were approved. The government issued a total of about 4,900 applications. Amount of subsidy of 10,000 yuan.

Among them, 2,271 people received full subsidy under the means test, 784 received half subsidy under the means test, and 778 people received non-means-test subsidy.

Twenty percent increase in Hong Kong students in this year's Mainland Higher Education Diploma Exam

Since the government launched the program in the 2014/15 school year, the number of recipients of subsidies has continued to rise. Even though Hong Kong has experienced anti-amendment legislation and the new crown pneumonia epidemic, coupled with the continued decline in the middle six population of the school age, the number of applicants for subsidy to go to school in the north has not fallen. Rise.

As of July 31 this year, a total of 3,833 people in the 2020/21 academic year have received government subsidies to study in the Mainland, and half of them have been admitted through the Diploma Examination Admission Scheme.

This is a 19% increase from the 3,218 in the 2019/20 school year, which is more than 20% more than the 3,147 in the 2018/19 school year.

Jinan University in Guangzhou has many Hong Kong people going north to study for many years.

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35% of beneficiary students enrolled in Jinan University and Huaqiao University ranked second

According to government data, the five universities that received the most subsidized students this academic year are Jinan University (about 1,339), Huaqiao University (about 505), Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (about 281), and Sun Yat-sen University (about 275). People) and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (approximately 151 people).

As for Peking University and Tsinghua University, which are well-known universities in the Mainland, about 47 students and about 44 students have received government subsidy for admission.

DSE 2021｜The plan for enrollment of Hong Kong students by mainland universities will be released online on Thursday at the latest 8.4 application for supplementary registration

▼Number of people who have been subsidized by the Hong Kong government to enter various institutions in the Mainland (as of July 31, 2021)▼

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