Award Presentation Ceremony of Hong Kong Excellent Family Awards held today (with pictures)
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The Home and Youth Affairs Bureau (HYAB) hosted the Award Presentation Ceremony of the Hong Kong Excellent Family Awards today (October 19) to identify 15 winning households and promote great household worths and conventional virtues to the neighborhood and the more youthful generations. The Deputy Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing-hing, and the Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice Mak, officiated at the event.
In his speech, Mr Cheuk kept in mind that China’s enduring culture and society have actually constantly stressed household consistency and valued excellent household worths and virtues. As President Xi Jinping stated, “The family is the basic cell of society. Family harmony leads to social stability. Family happiness creates social harmony.” The National 14th Five-Year Plan plainly specifies the requirement to reinforce household structure. The Law of individuals’s Republic of China on Family Education Promotion, carried out by the State in 2022, raises household education from a “family matter” to a “national matter,” totally showing our nation’s concentrate on household education and the promo of the great Chinese customs. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has actually been actively reacting to nationwide policies, and makes every effort to promote the structure of a family-friendly society and the healthy advancement of households in Hong Kong.
Miss Mak revealed her thankfulness to the public for their active involvement and assistance by sharing their domesticity and insights on nurturing household relationships. She kept in mind that each individual’s story is special, which permits the others to deeply value the household worths and virtues of exceptional households. She hoped that the occasion would assist in the giving of real bonds of household to the next generation, highlighting the significance of household.
She stated, “Hong Kong is our big family. Harmony in the family will bring prosperity for all. Family harmony is not only the source of personal happiness, but also a vital foundation for social prosperity and steady progress. I look forward to continuing to work hand in hand with everyone to enhance society’s recognition of family values and promote positive family values and virtues.”
Officiating at the event were the members of the Hong Kong Excellent Family Awards adjudication panel, consisting of the President of Legislative Council, Mr Andrew Leung; the Vice-Chairperson of the Connecting Hearts, Professor Annie Tam; the Chairperson of the Family Council, Ms Melissa Pang; the Convenor of the Family Council Sub-committee on Promotion of Family Core Values and Family Education, Mr Felix Law; and the Under Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Mr Clarence Leung.
The HYAB and Family Council co-organised the Hong Kong Excellent Family Awards in April this year. The occasion is open to all Hong Kong people. With the concentrate on “Fostering Stable Family Relationships for Building Good Family Values and Virtues”the occasion promotes the value of excellent household worths and giving great household customs and virtues to the neighborhood and the more youthful generations by acknowledging households that reveal shared regard, care, love and assistance for one another. The occasion got a passionate action, drawing in roughly 1 200 households to get involved. The adjudication panel, making up neighborhood agents along with agents from the HYAB and the Family Council, have actually picked 15 winning households after cautious evaluation and consideration. These consisted of 10 receivers of the “Excellent Families Award” and 5 receivers of the “Passage of Good Family Values and Virtues Award”At the Award Presentation Ceremony, the winning households shared their experiences and insights on cultivating strong household relationships, promoting favorable household culture and worths, in addition to great household customs and virtues to the general public.