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So every year we are literally in Chinese "&-&L". This congregation is my eighth. It is also my last as president of this university. Today, my I have had many memorable, exciting and feelings are the same as our graduating students' proud moments here with our faculty members who see this as a day with special meaning. As and students. I am also grateful to my team of many of you know, my term as president runs administrators and assistants. They work long out in August next year. It is a bit too early to hours to cater to the university's every need, and say goodbye, but it is never too early to publicly often for my personal needs. I call them my "7-11" declare how proud I feel about this university and team. My wife thinks that they have spoiled me. how sorry I am in leaving this institution. She is already taking steps to get me ready for my decompression, after I leave office. These days, if Between now and end of August next year, I ask her to make me a cup of tea, she would tell there will be few idle moments for me. I will me to get it myself. Now, that's good domestic be like the strong-legged red rooster, up at the training, because in the US nobody gets you a cup crack of dawn to scratch together projects for of tea, or a cup of anything. this community. The university has a very busy agenda this year. We are gearing up for the new HKUST's name and fame may be built by its campus development to get ready for the 3-3-4 teachers and researchers. But behind them is education reform. Recruiting additional faculty a terrific team of workers who have made the from overseas is also a top priority. I know it achievements possible. That's why this year we doesn't sound nice, but the financial tsunami now have established the President's Outstanding sweeping world markets has actually made our Service Award for the first time for our non- overseas recruitment exercise a little easier. academic staff. Let us hear it for our inaugural winners! I am grateful for the privilege of leading and serving this university, and am happy to A university president wears many hats. One report that over the last seven years, we have of them goes by the title of "fundraiser-in-chief". consolidated our gains in international rankings. Thanks to the generous spirit of civic-minded We are now rated 39th overall in the world this leaders like Dr Chan Sui Kau, one of our honorees year. In business education, we are at the top of today, this duty has been both fruitful and the academic ladder. Our joint EMBA program enjoyable. 4 1 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR PAUL CHING-WU CHU Like the conductor of an orchestra, the As the time of leadership transition approaches, university president often receives the applause I want to thank every member of this community for the outstanding performance of his players. for making my tenure a period of pride and the Our wonderful team of high-achieving scientific high watermark of my life. Like Prof Woo, I players has given me many occasions to receive may be away, but I will always be hovering over the ovation of the outside world. For example, this university in spirit. We have a proud record when I was attending conferences overseas, I was to defend, and a higher plateau to ascend to. congratulated on more than one occasion for the Education may be a long-term business, but it is work of our world renowned professors, such as full of urgencies and priorities that can't wait. As Prof Ping Sheng, our nano specialist. HKUST gets ready for the third wave of leadership, let us allow no gap to appear and keep Hong Kong At the university, we don't live for rankings. We proud and the world cheering. Nothing, after all, live for our students and our pursuit of knowledge. succeeds like success. The success of a university is to a large extent measured by the performance of its students. Thank you. Prof Nakamura, who has wonderful hands with machines, will be pleased to know that we have in our midst a mechanically inventive student who has built a remote-controlled mini-helicopter that was used in search and rescue missions during the recent Sichuan earthquake disaster. We are greatly honored that Prof Nakamura, Prof Ciechanover and Prof Gross have kindly consented to join the International Advisory Board to guide the work of our Institute for Advanced Study, which a major initiative by the university to assert intellectual leadership in Asia and the world. Prof Gross, who speaks today on behalf of our honorees, has also been very generous with his advice and support of our Institute for Advanced Study. It is also fitting that one of our founding fathers, Prof Chia-Wei Woo, today also becomes the favorite son of HKUST upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the very institute that he founded. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR PAUL CHING-WU CHU ( 5 Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa Dr CHAN Sui Kau Citation Economically, Hong Kong first made its mark in the Hong Kong in 1988 and, with unanimous support, world as a producing city whose hallmark is quality Dr Chan became its first Chairman. On issues that and efficiency. One of its pillar industries was matter to the textile and garment industries, the garment making whose stellar members included Council often conveyed its views and concerns to Yangtzekiang Garment Ltd. Its founder was none the Government. After prolonged lobbying efforts, other than Dr Chan Sui Kau. in which Dr Chan played a key role, the industry gained a seat in the Legislative Council under the When people speak of the garment industry functional constituency category. in this part of the world, Dr Chan's name almost always comes to mind. His fabled career is a Over the years, Dr Chan, always mindful of his snapshot of the glory of Hong Kong's old economy larger duties, fought hard to protect the interests and its modern day entrepreneurial spirit. of the industry. His most notable victory was the determined fight in the early 1960s for an equitable Hong Kong boasts more millionaires per square share of the garment quotas for the manufacturers mile than any other city on earth. Many amassed when the quota system was first imposed. The their wealth through the property or the stock colonial government of the day had leaned towards market. Dr Chan belongs to a minority who did not. giving all the quotas to the British and Indian He made his money the old-fashioned way-by expatriate exporters. At this critical juncture, Dr making things and marketing them. Chan joined forces with the late Mr Lam Kan Shing and representatives from major chambers They say that "great things have small of commerce to lobby for a fair quota system. beginnings". From a shoestring operation in its early The result was that the quotas were split evenly days, Dr Chan's business empire has grown through between the manufacturers and the exporters. This years of diligence and perseverance to become a brought about over three decades of steady growth diversified conglomerate with 15,000 staff members for Hong Kong's garment industry, making it one of on the payroll, stretching from Hong Kong, Macau, the territory's pillar industries. Taiwan, the Chinese Mainland and the Pacific Rim to western countries. Yet he often refers self- But he did more than just taking care of his mockingly to himself as "a biggish fish in a small business peers. He knew that a healthy garment puddle". But if this puddle stands for the garment industry must first take care of its workers.