Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2007

32 Chinese University Bulletin Spring · Summer 2007 Wu Yee Sun College Wu Yee Sun College is established with a HK$170 million donation from Wu Yee Sun Charitable Foundation Ltd. It will accommodate 600 residential students and, in addition, up to another 600 commuters. Founder of Wing Lung Bank Ltd. and eminent philanthropist, Dr. Wu Yee Sun (1904-2005) was a benefactor of the University and other tertiary institutions for many years. As early as 1973, Dr. Wu and his brother donated HK$1 million to CUHK for the establishment of the Wing Lung Bank Chinese Culture Development Fund to support research and publication projects of the Institute of Chinese Studies. For some three decades since, CUHK has continued to receive generous donations from Dr. Wu, the Wu family and the Wu Yee Sun Charitable Foundation for its academic development, particularly in the field of medicine. Recently the Wu Yee Sun Charitable Foundation pledged another major donation to CUHK for the establishment of a new college, Wu Yee Sun College, on its campus. Dr. Wu was born in 1904 into a family of great renown in Southern China. The young Wu Yee Sun abided by the motto ‘Adversity breeds greatness’. In 1933, he and his friends managed to set up the Wing Lung Money Exchange, predecessor of the present Wing Lung Bank. With a vision to ‘progress with prudence and serve with devotion and integrity’, the bank went from strength to strength and became listed in 1980. In 1982, Dr. Wu established the Wu Yee Sun Charitable Foundation to support charitable causes, including the building of hospitals, the establishment of schools and homes for the elderly, the funding of academic research, and the development of his home town. In the true philanthropic spirit of Dr. and Mrs. Wu Yee Sun, the Wu Yee Sun Charitable Foundation has just pledged another major donation to CUHK for the establishment of a new college. The college will be named after Dr. Wu as Wu Yee Sun College.