With a new record of 2,400 students, alumni, teachers, staff and their friends joining CUHK Marathon Team, CUHK was the first runner-up in the “Most Supportive Group Award” from the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon. Prof. Fok Tai-fai, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK attended the Prize Presentation Ceremony on 17 January, together with nearly 100 CUHK Marathon Team members.

A support team of 500 students, alumni, teachers and staff from CUHK was organized to cheer for CUHK runners along the marathon course during the marathon on 25 January. There will be a CUHK booth at the finish point where medical services will be offered by CUHK Sports Medicine Team. Let’s wish our runners great success in the race!

On 13 January, Prof. Lutz-Christian Wolff from the Faculty of Law talked on ‘35 Years of Chinese Foreign Investment Law – Facts, Trends and Stories’ in his Inaugural Lecture of Wei Lun Professorship in Law. It drew a full house of over 300 participants, including professors, students and members of the public.

Specializing in international and Chinese business law, Comparative Law, as well as Private International Law, Prof. Wolff offered insightful observations on Chinese Foreign Investment Law, and shared his interesting personal stories in China. Prof. Wolff was of the view that “China is a global mega-power with an economy that is inter-woven with the economies of many other countries”. However, he believed that Chinese investment law will remain ‘different’ with the systems of other countries in the years to come.

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On 9 January, Prof. Yau Shing-tung, Distinguished Professor-at-Large and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at CUHK gave a talk titled ‘Science and Humanity’ on campus. Prof. Yau shared his insights on the relationship between science and humanity and the importance of humanitarian qualities to excellent scientists.

With examples from the history of arts creation and science research of both China and the West, Prof. Yau pointed out that science and humanity are common in certain ways. He believes that axioms and philosophy are the foundations of modern science and any revolutions and developments of science are supported by philosophical ideas. By comparing poem creation by Su Shi, one of the famous Chinese poets and the study on general relativity by Albert Einstein, Prof. Yau demonstrated the similarities between arts and science.

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