Around 200 type 5 students left Hong Kong for Guangzhou and Shenzhen on Monday, ending up being the very first group to participate in a required journey to the mainland as part of the Citizenship and Social Development topic. Chief Secretary Eric Chan stated trips like this are crucial to the trainees’ future potential customers. A kid surnamed Niu informed RTHK he was thrilled about the over night journey. “We’ll study at a mainland secondary school along with the trainees there. We’ll go to some traveler destinations and historical websites. I wish to fulfill more brand-new buddies there,” he stated. “After this research study trip, we need to compose a report on how the Greater Bay Area can assist Hong Kong teenagers.” Chan was at West Kowloon Station to see them off. “They will remain in kind 6 next year, and taking their DSE tests. It’s an essential minute as they need to select their topics for university,” he stated. “When the trainees go to the mainland, they can see the nation’s advancement. This will assist them to discover what they have an interest in. It will then be simpler for them to select topics in future.” Chan stated the federal government intends to set up mainland research study trips for 40,000 senior secondary school trainees this scholastic year.