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appropriate calibre attracted. Already a solid research base is being developed with the allocation of $1 million by the UPCG,
and the links being forged with industrial and commercial organisations
are producing externally-funded
initiatives, including one grant of $500,000.
research
Academic credibility is also established by gaining
recognition and acceptance by other institutions, particularly those outside Hong Kong in the wider international academic community. Links with international institutions are developing repidly, and in the period under review visitors
visitors from over 50
institutions from all parts of the world were received in the new Polytechnic. They are all impressed by the high standard of the facilities provided and by the enthusiasm of the staff. Contacts with institutions of higher education in the People's Republic of
China established as early as 1983, and have
have since increased
significantly.
was
Before concluding, Sir, I should like to pay an especial tribute to my predecessor Sir S Y CHUNG, Chairman of the Planning Committee for the Second Polytechnic, and subsequently the first Chairman of the Council of the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong during the calendar year 1984, which forms an important part of the period covered by the Report. I mentioned at the beginning that speed of accomplishment
in the key feature
City Polytechnic's evolution. The speed at which the City Polytechnic was established is truly remarkable and probably unique in the history of academic institutions. It took only two
and years
three months from the appointment of the Planning Committee to the enrolment of the new Polytechnic's first students. There is no doubt in my mind that this tremendous achievement was mainly due to the able and dynamic leadership of Sir S Y. Under him the Planning Committee discharged its task in a most effective and dedicated manner. The sheer driving force
of Sir SY,
his coupled with
firm
and leadership
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