Associate Co-Director, Academy for Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures;
Director, National Security and Legal Education Research Centre, The Education University of Hong Kong
Professor Gu Minkang is currently Associate Co-Director of Academy for Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures, and Director of National Security and Legal Education Research Centre.
He was the Dean of Faculty of Law and Head of Credit Risk Management School, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China and also Associated Dean of School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He was Visiting Scholar of Ruhr University Law Department, Bochum, Germany, Visiting Professor of School of Law, Vienna University, Austria, and Visiting Research Fellow of Asian Law Institute, National University of Singapore. He was the first ‘Shanghai Oriental Scholar Chair Professor’ of the East China University for Political Science and Law.
He graduated from the East China University for Political Science and Law (Shanghai, PRC) and earned his LL.B in 1984 and Master of Law in 1987. He worked for the same university as a Lecturer in Law for five years. Subsequently in 1993, he went to the United States and successfully completed his legal study in the Willamette University College of Law and earned Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1996. When he was working at City University of Hong Kong, he went to France to continue his legal study and earned a degree in Master of European Business Law in France.
In addition, he is Arbitrator of various institutions including China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (Shenzhen Arbitration Commission). He is recently appointed as the Honorary President of the Academy of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Joint Mediation Limited.
National Education is an important component of values education in schools, with an objective to nurture young people into quality citizens who have a sense of belonging to our country, a sense of national identity and social responsibility. National Identity is listed in one of the seven learning goals of across primary and secondary education of Hong Kong.
National Education covers various interlocking areas, including Chinese history and our nation’s development, Chinese culture, geography, Constitution and Basic Law education, as well as National Security Education. Learning elements of National Education are infused in various subjects, such as General Studies for primary schools, Chinese History as well as Citizenship and Social Development for secondary schools.