Professor Kam Sing Wong, GBS, JP
Moderator
Culture and Sustainability in the Countryside
📅 8 November 2025 (Saturday)
🕛 1530 - 1630
Since the 1980s, Professor Wong has started his interest in the research of traditional Chinese indigenous architecture and later the culture of bamboo opera houses in Hong Kong. In the 1990s, he went to Canada to further his postgraduate study on sustainable built environment. Since the 2000s, he has volunteered at the first charitable bridge project “Wu Zhi Qiao” for a remote village in Mainland China, and has been associated with Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation since its establishment in 2007. In 2012-22, Wong served as Secretary for the Environment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. During his ten-year tenure, he launched a series of sustainable development policy blueprints, leading Hong Kong towards carbon neutrality before 2050 and, in 2017-18, championed a new policy to conserve remote countryside areas in Hong Kong. Since late 2022, he has started to serve as Chairman of Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation, promoting projects on "Rural Revitalisation x Youth Development x Low Carbon Sustainability" in both Mainland China and Hong Kong. Wong also serves as Honorary/Visiting Professor at various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, such as The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Organisation Description
Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation formally established in 2007, the organisation is now 18 years old. In its early years, the charitable initiatives focused on building footbridges for helping alleviate poverty in remote villages of Mainland China. In recent years, in response to the changing societal needs of both Mainland China and Hong Kong, it has shifted its focus to rural revitalisation in both Hong Kong and Mainland China through engaging young people and various stakeholders with diverse backgrounds as well as integrating low-carbon sustainability. It aspires to contribute to the vision of urban-rural integration.
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