Greening award: The champion of Large Garden Plot (Secondary School) category was Yan Chai Hospital Wong Wha San Secondary School.

Forty-two primary and secondary schools and kindergartens were commended today at the prize presentation ceremony of the Greening School Project Award in recognition of their meritorious green school projects and their contribution to the Green Hong Kong Campaign.

To promote green consciousness among students, the Leisure & Cultural Services Department's Greening School Subsidy Scheme provides cash subsidies to schools to plant more trees and shrubs in campuses and to organise more greening activities, through which students' interests and knowledge of greening can be enhanced.

Awards are given to meritorious green school projects.

The number of schools participating in the Greening School Subsidy Scheme has doubled since its introduction in 2000, rising from around 300 in the first year to 740 this year.