The Education Bureau today held Let's Join Hands to Promote Financial Education - 2023 Event Highlights to showcase the achievements in financial education and introduce the financial education activities jointly organised with other partners this year.

Speaking at the ceremony, Secretary for Education Choi Yuk-lin said that financial management is an important life skill closely related to life planning and therefore financial education should be started at an early age.

She noted that the bureau has all along been striving to promote financial education through different means including the development of the school curriculum as well as learning and teaching resources, co-organisation of activities and competitions for students with collaborating partners to equip students with correct financial management knowledge, methods and skills as well as to develop well-founded and appropriate values, attitudes and behaviours of financial management in students.

The key activities this year include the Digital Stock Trading Guru Competition 2023, the Hong Kong Financial Literacy Championship 2023, a series of activities on consumer education for secondary school students and the Project M² Award Scheme & Creative Lesson Plan Competition.

The bureau hopes that through participating in different activities, students can apply what they have learnt in the classroom, review and reflect on their financial habits and behaviours, thereby developing good financial values and achieving unity of knowledge and actions.

Several teachers and students from different schools also shared their financial management tips at the event.

Representatives from more than a dozen partners from government authorities, professional bodies and organisations, post-secondary education institutions, commercial organisations and non-governmental organisations also attended and showed their support to the event.