A Speech Given by Miss Zhou Wenwan, Director of Student Recruitment and Financial Assistance Department of theChineseUniversityofHong Kong

On February 29, 2012, the 2012 Recruitment Instruction Conference of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was held in the lecture hall of AHS. Fully occupied by over 300 students and parents fromShandongProvinceand other areas likeTianjin,Inner Mongolia, The lecture hall also stayed open to Jinan Times, JNETV, iqulu.com, 360eol.com and other media.

Miss Zhou Wenwan, director of Student Recruitment and Financial Assistance Department of theChineseUniversityofHong Kong, introduced some information of CUHK and the latest recruitment policies of 2012.

This year CUHK is scheduled to recruit 300 high school graduates from 31 provinces and areas in mainlandChina, among whom 4 students of literature and history and 10 students of science and engineering are fromShandongProvince. Miss Zhou especially reminded that the recruitment of CUHK in mainland China would be classified as “Early Admissions”, which enabled those candidates to have chances to be recruited into other colleges or universities as they would have registered in case that they fail to be recruited into CUHK. English taken as the teaching language in CUHK, candidates’ English level is strictly required, with the English mark of self-financing candidates reaching 120 or more and that of scholarship winners 130 or more. In order to better distribute among students the opportunities to obtain scholarships, CUHK will increase the number of scholarships and set up a new scholarship: tuition-free scholarship based on those previous ones.

Parents and students put forward many questions they were concerned about and the conference ended up with friendly interaction.

As has been learned, in 2008 Wang Yiwei from AHS, whose achievement in National Matriculation English Test (NMET) ranked the 1st in Shandong Province, was successfully enrolled into CUHK and won the full scholarship. Xing Zijun, a student of Grade 2008, was awarded the prize of Literature Star and The Best Comprehensive Quality due to her excellent performance in Chinese Composition Contest for Middle School Students. Xing gave an acknowledgement address in the Award Ceremony on behalf of all contestants and Yu Guangzhong, former professor of CUHK, presented awards to her. On November 23,2011 inresponse to the invitation from CUHK and City University of Hong Kong, the visiting group of AHS paid a visit to Hog Kong.

The annual recruitment instruction conference of CUHK in AHS itself indicates the full acknowledge on AHS as a source high school of quality students.

Written by Zhu Yujjun

Word Editor Liu Shuguang

Photographer Wang Zhen

Yang Hua

Translated by Feng Zhao

Revised by Cong Peiying