▲More than 1,600 teachers, students and parents from China and abroad witness the joint graduation ceremony of primary and secondary schools together.

On 19 June, China (Hong Kong) English School (CHES) held a grand joint graduation ceremony for the 2025 graduating class of both the primary and secondary schools. Over 1,600 people, including the graduates of the senior high and the sixth grade of primary school, their parents, and all the teachers and students of the school, attended the event.

In his English speech, Dr. Jonathan K.C. Choi, chairman of the school board, stated that the school's international and innovative education has followed the historical trend and cultivated a large number of talents who have achieved success in the Hong Kong and Macao regions and many overseas countries. He congratulated all the graduates of this year on their successful graduation and encouraged the senior high graduates to remember the school's motto, and in the context of the great explosion of science and technology and culture in our country, to enhance their national and cultural confidence, and shoulder the mission of telling the "Chinese story" and spreading the "Chinese voice", and to study well to serve the country.

▲Dr. Choi presents graduation certificates to a foreign student.

During the ceremony, Dr. Choi, chairman of the school board, Mr. Liu Chaorong, principal of the secondary school, Ms. Xie Hui, headmistress of the primary school, and the guests from the parents' committee of the primary and secondary schools, presented graduation certificates to over 90 senior three graduates and diplomas to over 150 primary school graduates.

▲The graduates present flowers to their teachers.

Lu Tianyu, a representative of the graduates, has been studying at CHES from kindergarten to high school and has been admitted to five Top 50 universities, including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Bristol, and University of Melbourne. He expressed his gratitude for the excellent international educational environment of CHES, his attachment and reluctance to leave, and stated that he would always remember the school motto of "Learned and Trustworthy, Innovative and Dedicated", continue to study hard, achieve success, and bring honor to his alma mater.

As of June 9, the 2025 high school graduates of this school have received over 260 admission offers from domestic and overseas universities. Among them, there are 125 offers from international universities ranked in the top 100 worldwide and 79 offers from top 50 universities. Those universities include the University of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, King's College London in the UK, the University of California, Davis in the US, the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Monash University and University of Queensland in Australia, the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, China, and etc.