{"id":49633,"date":"2017-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/press\/cuhk-hkiaps-receives-hk3-million-from-well-link-financial-group-supporting-chinese-law-programme\/"},"modified":"2017-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:00:00","slug":"cuhk-hkiaps-receives-hk3-million-from-well-link-financial-group-supporting-chinese-law-programme","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/cuhk-hkiaps-receives-hk3-million-from-well-link-financial-group-supporting-chinese-law-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"CUHK HKIAPS Receives HK$3 Million from Well Link Financial Group Supporting Chinese Law Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-49633","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20171129","keep":false,"details":"<p>The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is delighted to receive a generous donation of HK$3 million from the Well Link Financial Group in support of a research project undertaken by the Chinese Law Programme of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (HKIAPS) of CUHK.&nbsp; A donation ceremony was held on 29 November 2017, officiated at by&nbsp;<strong>Prof. Fanny Cheung<\/strong>, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President of CUHK and <strong>Ms Monica Zhan<\/strong>, CEO of the Well Link Financial Group. &nbsp;<strong>Prof. Chan Ka-lok<\/strong>, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration of CUHK, <strong>Prof. Chiu Chi-yue<\/strong>, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, <strong>Prof. Christopher Gane<\/strong>, Dean of the Faculty of Law, <strong>P<\/strong><strong>rof. Michael Palmer<\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of the School of Law of the University of London and Honorary Senior Research Fellow of HKIAPS, as well as a number of distinguished guests, also joined the ceremony.&nbsp;<\/p><p><span>Prof. Fanny Cheung&nbsp;said in her welcome remarks, &ldquo;I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to Ms Monica Zhan and the Well Link Financial Group for their generous support of our spearheading research on Chinese law.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The Chinese Law Programme of CUHK seeks to establish itself as a platform which has an impact in the Asia-Pacific region on multidisciplinary research on Chinese law and legal institutions by combining the efforts of scholars specialising in Chinese law.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p><p><span>Ms Monica Zhan said: &ldquo;The Well Link Financial Group is delighted to support the Chinese Law Programme of the HKIAPS of CUHK. It is our vision that, through this reseach project, society can have a better understanding of Chinese law. We believe that the donation can also foster and support CUHK faculty members&rsquo; scholarly research endeavors.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><strong>Prof. Xi Chao<\/strong>, Director of the Chinese Law Programme of HKIAPS, introduced the guests to the background of and latest developments in the Chinese Law Programme. He said, &ldquo;The project aims to promote&nbsp;research collaboration and&nbsp;academic exchange between&nbsp;scholars from Hong Kong and mainland China, with a focus on the Basic Law and Chinese Law.&rdquo;<\/p><p><span>In recent years, the Chinese Law Programme of CUHK has become a major platform for interdisciplinary research of Chinese law in HKIAPS.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Currently interdisciplinary reseach in &lsquo;Law and Culture&rsquo;, &lsquo;Law and Philiosophy&rsquo;, &lsquo;Law and Political Economy&rsquo;, &lsquo;Law and Finance&rsquo;, &lsquo;Law and Sociology&rsquo;, etc. has been launched with remarkable results. <\/span><\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":null,"video_file":null,"add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"2658","photos_original":[{"photo":"5a1e90d5adac8.jpg","caption":"Ms. Monica Zhan (left), on behalf of Well Link Financial Group, presents a cheque of HK$ 3 million to Prof. Fanny Cheung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President of CUHK, in support of a research project undertaken by the Chinese Law Programme of the HKIAPS of CUHK"},{"photo":"5a1e90d8a1184.jpg","caption":"Prof. Fanny Cheung presents a souvenir to Ms Monica Zhan to thank Well Link Financial Group for its generous support to HKIAPS of CUHK"},{"photo":"5a1e90db9c23a.jpg","caption":"Prof. Fanny Cheung expresses heartfelt appreciation to Ms Monica Zhan and the Well Link Financial Group for their generous support"},{"photo":"5a1e90dc297ee.jpg","caption":"(from left) Prof. Christopher Gane, Dean of the Faculty of Law, CUHK, Prof. Wang Zhenmin, Professor of Law of Tsinghua University; and Director of Legal Affairs Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People\u2019s Government in the HKSAR, Ms. Monica Zhan, Prof. Fanny Cheung, and Prof. Xi Chao take a group photo after the donation ceremony"},{"photo":"5a1e90dc9bc20.jpg","caption":"Group photo"}],"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}