Chapter 14 Lecture 13 How much do you know about studying in Hong Kong

●The Chinese University of Hong Kong basically implements all English teaching, and the teaching hours of a semester are three times that of Peking University and Tsinghua University, and the difficulty of the exam questions is unimaginable. ●It is very easy to transfer from Hong Kong to study in the United States or the United Kingdom. ●For young people, you don't need to make choices now, but give yourself more room for choices. In 1998, for the first time, universities in Hong Kong commissioned mainland universities to recruit undergraduates. In 2007, the number of Hong Kong colleges and universities approved to enroll students in the mainland increased to 12, and the scope of enrollment was expanded to 25 provinces and cities.In about 10 years, the number of mainland undergraduates studying in Hong Kong has exceeded 10,000. In 2006, only four colleges and universities including the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University enrolled about 900 mainland students.The top students in the college entrance examination in many provinces and cities have given up Peking University, Tsinghua University and other famous mainland universities to study in Hong Kong.For a time, studying in Hong Kong became a trend.However, how much do you really know about studying in Hong Kong?

Today's topic is Hong Kong's education system. I believe this is what I am most qualified to talk about.According to media reports, many mainland students are willing to give up Peking University and Tsinghua University and choose universities in Hong Kong.Why does this phenomenon occur?I would like to offer my personal opinion on this. Do you feel that you studied very hard in the year before the college entrance examination?I learned eleven or twelve o'clock every day at school, and my parents were very distressed when I got home, and they cooked soup for you to nourish your body.Under their care and love, you finally got admitted to the university and went to the school you like.And in the four years of college, what have you learned?

If you think that the year of preparing for the college entrance examination is the hardest, then you don't know much about Hong Kong's education system.There is a university in Hong Kong called the Chinese University of Hong Kong, but it is not a university for learning Chinese.Why did the Hong Kong government choose this strange school name?The first university in Hong Kong is called the University of Hong Kong, which is taught in English.Later, the population of Hong Kong increased, and the Hong Kong government established the second university. Because Chinese can be spoken at the school, in order to be different from the first university, it was named the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Now I will take the business school of this university as an example to talk about how to study is the real hard work.In the 4 years of business school, every day you will be more miserable than the days of preparing for the college entrance examination.No student can go to bed before 2:00 a.m., let alone have time to fall in love.In class, the teacher never considers whether the students have the ability to complete the project.The questions I asked are the most difficult in the world, and students will definitely not be able to answer them.The test time is 2 hours, if students can't answer in 2 hours, then even if they are given another 2 hours, they still can't.Teachers never consider whether students have enough time and ability.As long as it is the homework assigned by the teacher, they must finish it.Sometimes, some projects need to write a report. If the report submitted by the student is unqualified, then go back and rewrite it. If you can’t write it, you will never get a grade.

What if you don't have time?That is the problem of the students themselves, who told you to choose this course?Everyone here may think that Professor Lang's approach is extreme, but here, almost every professor is like this.Let me give you an example. The Chinese University of Hong Kong basically implements all English teaching. The teaching hours of a semester are three times that of Peking University and Tsinghua University, and the difficulty of the exam questions is unimaginable.Because our teaching language is English or Cantonese, and the mainland students in the first year in Hong Kong can't understand it, so I dare not let it go.The terrible thing is that the exam questions are so varied that students can't answer them at all, even if they memorize them, it's useless.

The school has very strict requirements on professors. Of course, I am already a chair professor, so I don't need to be restricted.The professors of various universities in Hong Kong are rated like this: Doctors who have just returned from the United States and Europe are assistant professors; Professor, it's a system.There are also chair professors, that is, honorary professors, but it is very difficult to become such a professor. Recently, Chinese University hired another Nobel laureate from the UK.What do I want to tell you?That is, the strictness of our review of professors is beyond your imagination.We have very strict regulations on where each professor's paper will be published.Taking economics as an example, papers can only be published in the United States, and each academic journal must be scored, and the standards are exactly the same as those of Harvard University and Yale University.Professors need to publish several papers within a few years, which is also very clearly stipulated, and if they fail to meet this standard, they will be dismissed.The school just fired a pretty good young professor who once published a paper in the best journal in the United States.This is super-level in the Mainland, because it is very difficult to publish a financial or economics paper in an international academic journal.But we didn't think he had enough papers, so we fired him.So our demands on professors are far higher than our demands on students.Education in Hong Kong is an education of excellence, and we don't want students to come here to waste time.Put the greatest pressure on them and let them read the book well. This is what we have to do.

So the students in the mainland spend a lot of time studying in the four years of university, what can they finally get?Although the mainland has a vast territory and only more than 1 million graduates each year, the graduates cannot find jobs.There are seven or eight universities in Hong Kong, and there are so many graduates every year, but why can they all find jobs?Today I want to talk about this issue.There are problems in China's educational reform itself. How do we carry out educational reform?The implementation of merger and enrollment expansion policies has recruited a large number of college students, but they cannot find jobs after graduation.

One of the most common reasons used by the media and domestic experts and scholars is that the major is not suitable for them. This is simply nonsense, and they have not understood the characteristics of undergraduate education at all.The characteristic of undergraduate education is that it does not match the major. Undergraduate education is generalist education, not specialist education.Specialist education is specialized education.College students in the United States must study humanities, mathematics, and history, because this is a generalist education.So is Hong Kong a generalist education?So is Hong Kong.Students are required to study psychology, sociology and history, but not party history.Why can college students in Hong Kong or the United States find jobs, while mainland students who are so good cannot find jobs?There is only one reason. The industry that really needs college students is the service industry, including banking, logistics, and telecommunications.The US service industry accounts for 80% of its national economy, while Hong Kong's is even higher.What about the mainland?The mainland is a manufacturing-based economy. Essentially, this kind of industrial structure does not require college students.

Anyone who has studied a little economics should know that only the service industry needs more college students.In China, a country dominated by manufacturing, how can universities implement the policy of expansion, mergers and industrialization?The inevitable result is that college students can't find a job!This is a mistake in people's cognition, because they don't understand the essence of university education enough.Therefore, it took several years for mainland students to study their favorite undergraduate majors, but after four years of hard work, they still could not find a job after graduation.Since there is no way to change the industrial structure quickly, this situation will not be improved in the future, but will only continue to deteriorate.Why do the relevant leaders not understand this truth?They are officials, and they can be forgiven if they don't understand.But now the mainland economists don't know this truth, isn't it very sad?

What are the benefits of studying at a university in Hong Kong?Judging from the employment situation in the past three years, graduates of the Business School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong have at least two job opportunities, and the worst monthly salary is close to 10,000 yuan, and the best last year even reached 35,000 yuan. Certainly a minority.After studying at the University of Hong Kong for 4 years, graduates can become citizens of Hong Kong as long as they work in Hong Kong for another 3 years and complete 7 years.But becoming a citizen of Hong Kong is also very troublesome, because according to regulations, you must use a Hong Kong ID card.The passport of Hong Kong is called the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passport of the People's Republic of China, and it has a blue cover; the passport of the mainland of China is red.When you get a Hong Kong blue passport and a Hong Kong ID card, you have to give up your mainland household registration.But as long as you have worked in Hong Kong for 7 years, you can become a Hong Kong citizen, and you can use the special channel for Hong Kong residents when you pass the customs without having to queue.In Hong Kong, as long as you are a student, a nanny or a worker, you can use the Hong Kong resident channel, which is more convenient and also a great advantage for employment.

What if you want to continue your studies?In the mainland, if students apply to prestigious universities, they have to apply for visas, which is a difficulty.Many times the visa officer refuses your visa without reason.However, it is very easy to transfer from Hong Kong to study in the United States or the United Kingdom.In other words, once you apply for a school in Hong Kong, you will quickly connect with the job market in Hong Kong and universities around the world. Fifteen years ago, all the systems in Hong Kong belonged to the United Kingdom, and it has not been completely changed until the past few years.The systems of various universities in Hong Kong, including the teaching system and professor promotion system, basically adopt the American system and are in line with international standards.Therefore, whether you come to Hong Kong for employment or further studies, basically there is no visa obstacle.Moreover, many companies in Hong Kong are still relatively interested in recruiting mainland employees, because local students in Hong Kong cannot speak Mandarin well and always have a Hong Kong accent.Because when speaking Cantonese, the lips should be protruding, and there are many pronunciations, which are basically pronounced by the lips. This is a characteristic of Cantonese.And once the lips protrude, Mandarin cannot be spoken well.If the company sends this kind of person to mainland China to discuss business, others feel that there will be estrangement.If mainland students do this kind of thing, the estrangement will disappear.Therefore, mainland students have better protection for employment in Hong Kong. Recently, in Hong Kong, people and students are very interested in learning Mandarin, and they think it will help them get a better job.I think the period from 2003 to 2004 was a period of great transformation in Hong Kong. Before 1997, Hong Kong people looked down on mainlanders and often called mainlanders "cousin".It's a derogatory term.I came to Hong Kong in 1994. I said that I am Taiwanese and my ancestral home is Shandong.At that time, Hong Kong people were okay with Taiwanese, but there was obvious discrimination against mainlanders.But after 1997, I felt very subtle changes.After 2002, Hong Kong underwent major changes.But now, people who can speak Mandarin have become more popular.When Hong Kong people asked me where I was from, I said I was from the Mainland, and they would attach great importance to me. Once I met the leader in a barber shop in Hong Kong.He spoke Cantonese and asked me where I was from. I said I was a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.After speaking, everyone dispersed.In Hong Kong, who is the professor?Hong Kong's first-class talents are not knowledgeable. The following phenomenon is more interesting.It's hard to find bookstores in Hong Kong, but newsstands selling gossip magazines are everywhere.People who go to serious bookstores to read books are basically from the mainland.Why?Hong Kong people basically don't study, and they look down on learning.The real first-class talents in Hong Kong are engaged in business, followed by those who are officials.During the period of the British Hong Kong government, Hong Kong people had absolutely no future in politics, and all the section chiefs and above were British.The situation is of course different now. After the return of Hong Kong, politics has suddenly become a good path.Moreover, the road to politics is arranged by the University of Hong Kong, because the foundation of politics—politics, law, and medicine—is basically dominated by the University of Hong Kong.The Chinese University of Hong Kong is the second university established in Hong Kong. It basically focuses on business, so Hong Kong's business, academic and corporate talents basically come from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.But let me tell you that the children of rich people in Hong Kong do not study in Hong Kong, they basically go to the UK to study, and many students of the Chinese University of Hong Kong who choose to study in Hong Kong generally come from relatively poor families. The children of the rich have basically gone abroad to study. Although I often criticize them for not liking studying, when they are studying, they are completely different from mainland students. They work very hard and are very dedicated.This is the characteristic of Hong Kong people, and I feel very deeply about it.You have to know that the discipline of Hong Kong people is very good, and this is why Hong Kong people are ranked first in the world as secretaries.The conscientiousness and strong fiduciary responsibilities of Hong Kong secretaries are not found in many countries, including the United States, so the secretaries trained in Hong Kong are the best.Students from various universities in Hong Kong work very hard in their studies, even making mainland students feel ashamed.Students in Hong Kong also lack creativity, which is the same as students in the Mainland. But as long as you tell them, you go to research this company, and they will do it honestly.Unlike Hong Kong students, mainland students have a lot of questions and like to talk about the truth.Hong Kong students generally don't like to ask questions. He just works very hard to make the projects assigned to him perfect. This is their principle of doing things, which is very rare.But they only read textbooks and books related to projects, exams and reports, and nothing else.There was a female master who was my teaching assistant. I thought she had finished her master's degree and was working as a teaching assistant at the school, so I asked her to teach a class.She is a student I taught, so I thought, she should like studying more.But one day, I saw her carrying a big bag of books, so I asked her where were she going?She said she wanted to go home and read a book.I was very moved when I heard it, there are so many books!Then I opened it and found that there were actually 8 comic books!A teaching assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a local student in Hong Kong actually read comic books?Do you believe it?This is us Hong Kong people. After mainland students arrive in Hong Kong, their learning spirit is definitely not as good as that of Hong Kong people.Moreover, they are very impetuous, and their learning rankings often fall behind Hong Kong people, usually in the lower middle position.In their first year in Hong Kong, their grade point average is usually below a B, and a B is considered good.We give very little A, for example, 50 students in a class, 3 A, 5, 6 A-, the others are B, C, D, E.So it's hard to get a good grade.The students who go to the mainland may not be able to adapt slowly until the second grade. Most of their grades start to gradually improve from below B to above B after the second grade to the third grade. Most of the students who are really good at learning Is a Hong Kong student.In this regard, mainland students are not as good as Hong Kong students, mainly because the learning environment is different. So what is the difference between studying in Hong Kong and studying in the Mainland?I often joke that as long as you finish your undergraduate degree in a mainland university, it fully proves that you are an uncreative person.Do you know what kind of people the education system in the Mainland cultivates?Develop problem solvers, like the boring Math Olympiad.In my opinion, this kind of competition is a waste of life and a source of stifling creativity. Students should not take this kind of test at all. What is the answer to the question?But this is the admission standard of many schools.We all know that the youth classes organized by the state all failed in the end. Why?Because the top students selected in middle school are not creative, but master problem solvers.Therefore, the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China trains a group of the best problem-solving masters in China, not real geniuses. Under the education system in the Mainland, if you are a creative genius, then you are likely to be the first batch to be eliminated, because the system particularly dislikes creative people.Do elementary school teachers like naughty students?No, what kind of people do they like?I like well-behaved students who teach with the back of their hands, study hard, and don't talk, but such students generally lack creativity.In Hong Kong, although teachers' requirements for students' creativity are not as good as those in the United States, they are much stronger than those in mainland universities.For example, many professors ask students to analyze a certain company, but as for how to analyze, which company to look for, and what information to look for, we basically don’t say anything, and students think on their own, set their own topics, and complete independently.This is completely different from the education model in the Mainland.Although we pay more attention to cultivating students' creativity, we haven't done enough. Hong Kong students are often solving problems.But there is no way, it is not something we can change.All in all, the different learning attitudes of Hong Kong and mainland students are worthy of reflection. After one or two years of studying in Hong Kong, students from the Mainland usually feel a lot of frustration because they can’t keep up with the progress. However, if they come to Hong Kong to study after graduating from high school, they can speak both English and Cantonese. very fluent.If they come to Hong Kong to study after finishing university in the Mainland, they will basically not be able to learn Cantonese, and at the same time they will not be able to speak English fluently. This is my personal feeling.Although I have been a professor in Hong Kong for many years, I still feel very painful when teaching in Hong Kong. Where is the pain?First, I can't speak Cantonese, so I can't communicate with Hong Kong students fluently.The classes I teach are very complicated, not as simple as mathematics and English classes. There are many proper nouns in the class, such as corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, ideology, exploitation, religious revolution, etc. If I teach in English, students often listen to don't know.For example, when I teach in English, 70% of the local students in Hong Kong can understand; what if I speak Mandarin?That's even worse, and the rate of understanding is less than 30%.So when I have to teach a very complicated class, I use neither English nor Mandarin, but find a student who can speak Mandarin and Cantonese, and ask him to stand next to me and translate my Mandarin into Cantonese .It would be the most troublesome thing if students from the mainland and students from Hong Kong were attending lectures at the same time. I simply didn't know which language to choose for lectures. I believe that you have many questions, so let's have an interaction next.Whether you have questions about Hong Kong's education system itself, or about Hong Kong's postgraduate education, undergraduate education, or your children's education, you can ask me questions. Audience: Hello, Professor Lang.Can you introduce the policy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to recruit graduate students in the Mainland? Lang Xianping: The policy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to recruit undergraduates and graduate students in the Mainland is completely different.According to the latest regulations, students applying for the University of Hong Kong are the first to be admitted. After the admission is over, mainland universities will start to admit.That is to say, if you apply for a university in Hong Kong in the first batch and are admitted, you can study in person; if you are not admitted, you can still apply for schools in the mainland when the second batch of admissions starts. This is the admissions policy for undergraduate students.If you are applying for a postgraduate entrance examination, you must apply directly to each department instead of passing the postgraduate entrance examination in the Mainland.The requirements of each department are different, and the GRE or GMAT scores are reviewed uniformly.Many students wrote to me asking if I could go to Hong Kong to study as a graduate student. My answer was no, because professors cannot enroll graduate students by themselves, but they must pass the school's acceptance and then be reviewed by the professor.However, applying for graduate students in Hong Kong is more difficult than applying for graduate students in the United States, because the number of full scholarships from the Hong Kong government is very small, including doctoral students, and only three or four are admitted to a department.But if you are studying a special course like EMBA, it may be relatively easy to apply. Audience: Just now you said that students trained in Hong Kong are more creative than students trained in the Mainland, but Hong Kong now uses the Mainland’s college entrance examination as the selection mechanism. How do you explain this phenomenon? Lang Xianping: Very good.If you are a decision maker in Hong Kong, do you have any other way to recruit students in the Mainland? Audience: Professor Lang, hello.I would like to ask, a high school student goes to Hong Kong to study an undergraduate major, how much is his four-year fee? Lang Xianping: After 4 years, it is about 400,000 yuan, and if you study in the mainland, it is about 40,000 yuan.While the cost varies enormously, what you learn in Hong Kong is what counts.Our requirements for students are very strict, and graduates have greater advantages compared with mainland universities in terms of job hunting and studying abroad. Audience: You just said that education in Hong Kong is generalist education.Regarding domestic education, I use an inappropriate term, it is for future employment.I would like to ask you to compare this with American education.Also, for college students and graduates in the Mainland, how should they better improve their level and self-cultivation? Lang Xianping: Your question covers a wide range of topics, and I am willing to answer it.How much do we understand about the nature of education?For example, what is the purpose of MBA education in the United States?I can tell you that the textbooks, practice questions and exam questions used by almost all universities in the United States for MBA education are basically the same.You may find it very strange, if education is the same, how can you judge whether it is good or not?In this case, the origin of the graduates becomes very important.Like Harvard University, Wharton Business School or the University of Chicago, they have very strict requirements for recruiting students. If you can be admitted, once you graduate, others will look at you with admiration.Although the knowledge you learn is exactly the same as other schools, but since these schools can admit you, you must be very good. MBA graduates from various universities in the United States are different.Graduates from prestigious schools have high salaries and good job opportunities; graduates from ordinary schools have low salaries and poor job opportunities.But you must be wondering, since the things you learn are all the same, don't all schools have their own characteristics?This is the greatness of American MBA education.If employees of an enterprise want to be promoted and enter management, they must have an MBA degree.The basic purpose of MBA education in the United States is to provide a common dialogue platform to greatly reduce communication costs.In American companies, from the CEO to the new employees, because they all learn the same, there is no problem with the communication between the top and the bottom.MBA education in the United States selects talents through the merits and demerits of various universities, but its soul is to create a common dialogue space.Therefore, when American companies operate, their transaction costs and communication costs are very low, while Chinese companies are very high. Do you remember?When the CEO of General Electric Company of the United States gave a speech, he couldn't understand the questions asked by many of our entrepreneurs.For example, how to communicate the relationship?How to motivate employees' family environment and work attitude?He can't understand.Why can't he understand?Welch, CEO of GM, said that he should do what he should do wholeheartedly.what to doThe company's strategic plan.But our entrepreneurs spend 70% of their time doing what they shouldn't do - communicating with their subordinates.Communication is not a simple speech, but includes all levels, such as strategy, concept, etc. Therefore, our entrepreneurs not only need to communicate with their subordinates, but also communicate with the government, which takes up at least 70% of their time. energy.It is too difficult for our entrepreneurs to be both entrepreneurs and politicians.The MBA education in the United States enables managers to save 70% of the time, allowing them to do what they should do wholeheartedly. For example, the CEO can plan the corporate strategy well.This is the success of MBA education in the United States. What is the status of MBA education and EMBA education in many schools in our mainland recently?That is the sound of each trumpet, the tune of each Lach.There are even incredible undergraduate institutions like the School of Finance.For finance, we can offer up to five independent courses.But the School of Finance is actually divided into three or four departments, and the teaching content is to arrange and combine five courses. What is this?absurd!It is a waste of time to gather the world's talents and destroy it.The Chinese University of Hong Kong is not so standardized, there are still undergraduates.In the United States, however, many business schools do not have undergraduate programs at all, only MBAs. Why?Because undergraduates should not study this at all, they need to study basic subjects such as psychology and mathematics and humanities. Therefore, law schools, business schools and medical schools in the United States only enroll graduate students.We have never heard of undergraduates studying law, business and medicine in the United States, only in China.For these three majors, the United States is only a graduate student.Undergraduates study humanities, natural sciences, history and psychology, which is the American education system.What's more interesting is that in the United States, undergraduate knowledge has nothing to do with employment, and all majors related to employment are at the postgraduate stage.Like Princeton University, it has no business school at all, but its graduates can find jobs. Why?Because the United States is a country dominated by the service industry.If you compare this system with ours in China, you will find that China's undergraduate education has serious problems.Many first-class high school students in China study business after entering university. After four years, they have learned nondescript.I accept graduate students now, and in principle, I only accept students from the Department of Mathematics, Department of Physics, and Department of Engineering. I basically do not accept any graduates from business majors, because their level is not much different from that of high school students. Today, I want to look at the education system of the whole world through Hong Kong, and think about the development direction of China's education.I think there is a big deviation in the current business education and the direction of education in China, which is worthy of our deep thinking. Audience: Professor Lang, hello.I want to ask you two questions.One question is, what advantages do mainland students have over Hong Kong students?One more question, what advice do you have for postgraduate study? Lang Xianping: Are you a graduate student studying in Hong Kong? Audience: I am a graduate student in the Mainland.What do you think are the deficiencies in their learning? Lang Xianping: I think there is one thing that Hong Kong students are inferior to mainland students, that is, mainland students have very high expectations for the future, while Hong Kong students are more easy-going.Mainland students hope to start a business, and Hong Kong students hope to find a job.Hong Kong students all hope to find a good job, including Chief Executive Donald Tsang.If someone asks what is the policy policy of the Chief Executive?If he was a mainland student, he would definitely say that he wanted to serve the country; but Donald Tsang was not, he said he just wanted to do a good job in this job. Mainland students found it unimaginable. You are a leader, why don't you think about the future of Hong Kong people?This is the thinking of Hong Kong people. He just wants to do his job well step by step.Mainland students are very motivated, and their attitude towards job hunting is unusual.I found that many students from the mainland went directly to Shenzhen to find a job. Why?Because they want to start a business.This reflects a kind of impetuous employment psychology, but behind the impetuousness is a positive attitude, so being active and impetuous are two sides of the same coin, which is also a sign of mainland students.Hong Kong students are more pragmatic and more willing to work in a down-to-earth manner. As for your second question, what advice do I have for graduate students in the Mainland?I think it is difficult to find a job now, and postgraduate study is a kind of escape for many mainland students.I told my two sons, you must not go to graduate school anywhere, and you must not follow my path.The reason is that I hope they can enter the society first and understand what they want to do after graduating from undergraduate or junior college.I think the most valuable asset of young people is to have an option not to cash in.For young people, don't rush to choose, but give yourself more room for choice. For an undergraduate student, if you go to work in the society, not only do you not give up the option of studying for a graduate student, but you also grasp another employment option at the same time.During this period, maybe you will meet a career you like, or maybe you will meet a leader who promotes you.Thus, your options are opened up.Once you decide to go to graduate school-doing a doctorate is the worst choice, your road will become very narrow.So I suggest everyone, even if it is difficult for you to find a job after graduating from an undergraduate degree, you should not go to graduate school, because suffering more when you are young, seeing others' faces more, and suffering more, will only benefit you and not harm you. .You are still young, you still have the capital to fail, and you also have the opportunity to succeed again. Don't choose the road of studying because you are afraid of challenges when you are young.what should you doFacing challenges bravely, not afraid of failure.Besides, who hasn't experienced failure?For example, I have failed too much in my life, and the failures at a young age have a great positive impact on you. However, when you are 40 to 50 years old, at my age, if you fail again, it will be irreversible.I advise you to stand up to whatever comes your way and do your job well.I hope that all the guests here will bravely face all kinds of tribulations that society brings to you.Suffering more hardships and accumulating more beneficial things when you are young can guarantee your future success. In short, I do not recommend that you go to graduate school.When you are young, you have to create more opportunities for yourself.After 10 years, you have accumulated rich interpersonal relationships. At that time, if you really need to go to graduate school, you can hire others to do things, and then you can go to a certain school to study for an EMBA. Audience: I have a friend who is taking the college entrance examination this year. He faces two choices, Tsinghua University and Chinese University of Hong Kong.I would like you to compare these two universities and tell him how to choose. Lang Xianping: Tsinghua University has recently exerted great pressure on the Chinese University of Hong Kong. What kind of pressure is it?It poached our professors with deep pockets.The year before last, Tsinghua University poached two well-written professors from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Hong Kong with an annual salary of 600,000 to 800,000 yuan, one surnamed Bai and the other surnamed Li.Last year, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management poached one of our youngest professors.His name is Li Hongbin. He is a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He wrote a very good thesis and was promoted to a professor after staying in Hong Kong for four or five years.Our salary in Hong Kong is about 700,000 to 800,000 yuan, while Tsinghua University’s salary is as high as 1.04 million yuan, and there is also a housing subsidy of 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. In addition, there is a set of three bedrooms and two living rooms. house.Under such fierce competition, mainland universities are catching up with the requirements of professors.Although Tsinghua University is advancing fiercely and is comparable to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, there is a problem, that is, it has just begun to integrate with the world. In terms of the weight and quality of teaching, to be fair, it is not as good as the Chinese University.For your classmate, my suggestion is that if he studies science, it is best to go to Tsinghua University; if he studies business, he should go to the Chinese University of Hong Kong.