The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in the territory.香港理工大学（简称理大，PolyU）是位于香港九龙红磡的公立研究型大学，也是香港八所受政府资助、可授予学位的专上院校之一。

It traces its origin to the Government Trade School founded in 1937, became the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1972 and assumed full university status on 25 November 1994, and it now offers programmes across business, engineering, design, health, humanities, science and hotel and tourism management.该校源于 1937 年创办的香港官立高级工业学院，1972 年成为香港理工学院，1994 年 11 月 25 日取得正式大学地位，现开设涵盖商科、工程、设计、健康、人文、理科以及酒店及旅游管理等领域的课程。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 PolyU is placed 50th in the world, and it enrolls more than 33,900 students with a teaching staff of about 1,569, making it one of the largest publicly funded institutions in Hong Kong.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，理大位列世界第 50 位；该校在校学生逾 33,900 人、教师约 1569 人，是香港规模最大的公帑资助院校之一。

History

• In 1937 the Government Trade School was founded at Wood Road in Wan Chai as the first publicly funded post-secondary technical institution in Hong Kong, housed in a three-storey Victorian building known locally as the Red Brick House.1937 年，香港官立高级工业学院在湾仔活道成立，成为香港第一所政府资助的专上程度工科院校，校舍为一座三层维多利亚式建筑，被坊间称为「红砖屋」。
• Under its principal George White, the school ran classes in marine wireless operating, mechanical engineering and building construction, training the technicians needed by the colony's shipping, engineering and construction industries.在校长 George White 的主持下，学院开设航海无线电操作、机械工程与建筑工程等课程，为香港的航运、工程与建造业培养技术人才。
• After the Second World War the school became the Hong Kong Technical College in 1947, offering both full-time and part-time courses to meet the demand for skilled workers during the territory's reconstruction.第二次世界大战后，学院于 1947 年改称香港工业专门学院，开设全日制与兼读制课程，以满足战后重建对技术工人的需求。
• In 1957 the college opened a new campus in Hung Hom, inaugurated by Governor Alexander Grantham, marking the beginning of a new chapter in industrial education in Hong Kong.1957 年，学院在红磡启用新校舍，由时任港督葛量洪主持，开启了香港工业教育史的新篇章。
• In 1965 Sir Sze-yuen Chung told the Legislative Council that the time had come to establish a polytechnic in Hong Kong, initiating the process that would create both the Hong Kong Polytechnic and, later, the City Polytechnic.1965 年，钟士元爵士在立法局提出，香港已到创办理工学院的时候，从而开启了创建香港理工学院、其后又创建香港城市理工学院的进程。
• In May 1969 the government appointed Tang Ping-yuen as chairman of the Polytechnic Planning Committee, which prepared the reports on which the new institution was founded.1969 年 5 月，政府委任唐炳源为理工学院筹备委员会主席，该委员会拟定的报告成为新院校成立的依据。
• On 24 March 1972 the Legislative Council passed the Hong Kong Polytechnic Ordinance, and the first Polytechnic Board of Directors was formed under the chairmanship of Sir Sze-yuen Chung.1972 年 3 月 24 日，立法局通过《香港理工学院条例》，首届理工学院董事会随即组成，由钟士元爵士出任主席。
• On 1 August 1972 the Hong Kong Polytechnic was formally established, taking over the campus and staff of the Hong Kong Technical College, which at the handover had just over 1,700 full-time day students.1972 年 8 月 1 日，香港理工学院正式成立，接管香港工业专门学院的校舍与教职员，移交时该学院有全日制日校学生一千七百余人。
• The Polytechnic's mandate was to provide professional-oriented education to meet the community's need for qualified workers, and it focused at first on teaching standards appropriate to a polytechnic rather than on pure academic research.理工学院的使命是提供面向专业的应用型教育，以满足社会对合格人才的需求，成立之初着重达到与理工学院相称的教学水准，而非纯粹学术研究。
• The institution launched its first five degree programmes in 1983, in Mathematics and Science, Computing Studies, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Social Work, moving beyond its technician-level role.1983 年，学院推出首批五个学位课程，涵盖数学与科学、电脑研究、电子工程、机械工程与社会工作，开始超越其技术员培训的角色。
• It introduced its first Master of Philosophy programme in 1986 and conferred its first MPhil degree in 1988, the year it held its graduation ceremony for the first time at the Hong Kong Coliseum.学院于 1986 年推出首个哲学硕士课程，并在 1988 年授予首个哲学硕士学位，同年首次在香港体育馆举行毕业典礼。
• In 1989 the Polytechnic conferred its first honorary doctorate on its founding Council chairman Sir Sze-yuen Chung and introduced its first taught master's degree, the MSc in Information Systems.1989 年，学院向其创办时的校董会主席钟士元爵士颁授首个荣誉博士学位，并推出首个授课式硕士课程——资讯系统理学硕士。
• In response to the government's policy of expanding degree places, the Polytechnic was authorised to offer degree studies to sixty-five per cent of its student population by 1994/95 and conferred its first PhD degree in 1991.为配合政府扩充学位名额的政策，学院获准在 1994/95 年度让百分之六十五的学生修读学位课程，并于 1991 年授予首个博士学位。
• On 25 November 1994, after gaining approval from the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee for the self-accreditation of degree programmes, the institution assumed full university status and changed its name to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.1994 年 11 月 25 日，在获得大学及理工教育资助委员会关于学位课程自我评审的批准后，学院取得正式大学地位，并更名为香港理工大学。
• In 1995 the university implemented its first Strategic Plan and founded the Federation of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Alumni Associations, followed in 1996 by the establishment of PolyU Technology and Consultancy Company Limited.1995 年，理大推行首个策略发展计划并成立香港理工大学校友会联会；1996 年又成立理大科技及顾问有限公司。
• In 1997 the university established its first mainland training outpost in Zhejiang, and over the following three years set up additional bases in Beijing, Shenzhen and Zhuhai as it deepened ties with the mainland.1997 年，理大在浙江设立首个内地培训基地，其后三年又在北京、深圳与珠海设立基地，深化了与内地的联系。
• In 2000 the Jockey Club Auditorium began operation, providing a venue with balcony and main-floor seating for up to 1,084 people and becoming a focus of the university's cultural and ceremonial life.2000 年，赛马会综艺馆启用，其楼座与堂座共可容纳 1084 人，成为理大文化与典礼生活的中心之一。
• In 2002 the university founded its College of Professional and Continuing Education, which provides self-financed post-secondary programmes through Hong Kong Community College and the School of Professional Education and Executive Development.2002 年，理大创办专业进修学院，通过香港专上学院与专业及持续教育学院提供自负盈亏的专上课程。
• In 2019 a pedestrian footbridge eighty metres long linked the main campus to Block Z across Chatham Road, extending the university northward across a major thoroughfare.2019 年，一条长八十米的行人天桥横跨漆咸道，把主校园与 Z 座相连，使大学越过这条主干道向北扩展。
• Since the 2010s PolyU research teams have contributed instruments and devices to China's Chang'e lunar missions and the Tianwen Mars mission, including cameras and sampling equipment used in space exploration.自 2010 年代起，理大科研团队为中国「嫦娥」探月任务与「天问」火星任务研制仪器与装置，包括用于太空探索的相机与采样设备。

Academics

• PolyU is organised into seven faculties and several schools, covering business, construction and environment, engineering, health and social sciences, humanities, science, design, and hotel and tourism management.理大由七个学院及若干学院级单位组成，涵盖商科、建筑及环境、工程、医疗及社会科学、人文、理科、设计以及酒店及旅游管理等领域。
• The university enrolled more than 33,900 students and employed about 1,569 teaching staff, making it the largest publicly funded tertiary institution in Hong Kong by student population.该校在校学生逾 33,900 人、教师约 1569 人，按学生人数计是香港规模最大的公帑资助专上院校。
• Its School of Hotel and Tourism Management has repeatedly been ranked first in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for hospitality and leisure management.其酒店及旅游业管理学院在 QS 世界大学学科排名的酒店与休闲管理领域多次位列世界第一。
• The Faculty of Business holds triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, placing it among the small group of business schools worldwide with all three credentials.商学院同时获得 AACSB、EQUIS 与 AMBA 三重认证，是全球少数拥有这三项认证的商学院之一。
• The university operates the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology, Hong Kong's only national-level key laboratory in its field, supporting precision engineering research.该校设有超精密加工技术国家重点实验室，是香港在该领域唯一的国家级重点实验室，支撑精密工程研究。
• PolyU's research strengths include textile and fashion technology, civil and structural engineering, artificial intelligence, optometry, rehabilitation sciences and hotel and tourism management.理大的研究强项包括纺织与服装科技、土木与结构工程、人工智能、视光学、康复科学以及酒店与旅游管理。
• The university maintains partnerships with more than 400 institutions worldwide and offers exchange and dual-degree arrangements that send students to partner universities across Asia, Europe and North America.该校与全球 400 多所院校保持合作，通过交换与双学位安排，把学生送往亚洲、欧洲与北美的伙伴大学。
• PolyU has incubated more than 480 start-up companies, including four unicorns, and runs an entrepreneurship system in which undergraduates take compulsory innovation and entrepreneurship subjects.理大已孵化超过 480 家初创企业，其中包括四家独角兽，并建立了本科生必修创新创业科目的创业培育体系。
• The university established technology and innovation research institutes in mainland Chinese cities including Jinjiang, Wuxi, Hangzhou and Wenzhou to commercialise its applied research.该校在内地的晋江、无锡、杭州与温州等城市设立技术创新研究院，以推动其应用研究成果的转化。
• Its College of Professional and Continuing Education offers sub-degree and degree programmes to a large body of self-financed students through Hong Kong Community College and SPEED.其专业进修学院通过香港专上学院与 SPEED 为大量自费学生提供副学位与学位课程。
• The university's teaching emphasises the application of knowledge to real-world problems, an approach summed up in its motto, and it requires most students to complete work-integrated education and service-learning subjects.该校教学强调将知识应用于现实问题，这一取向凝结于其校训之中，并要求多数学生完成工作综合教育与服务学习科目。
• PolyU's Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Construction and Environment and Faculty of Science support Hong Kong's infrastructure, logistics and technology sectors through research and consultancy.理大的工程学院、建筑及环境学院与理学院通过研究与顾问工作，支持香港的基础建设、物流与科技产业。
• The university's Faculty of Health and Social Sciences includes the School of Nursing and the School of Optometry, which train large numbers of Hong Kong's nurses, optometrists and allied health professionals.该校的医疗及社会科学院下设护理学院与眼科视光学院，为香港培养了大量护士、眼科视光师与专职医疗人员。
• PolyU's Faculty of Design and its fashion and textiles programmes are among the most prominent in Asia and have produced many of Hong Kong's leading designers.理大的设计学院及其纺织与服装课程在亚洲位居前列，培养出香港众多顶尖设计师。
• The university's research output spans engineering, materials science, computer science, rehabilitation and the social sciences, supported by state-level and UGC funding.该校的科研产出覆盖工程、材料科学、计算机科学、康复及社会科学等领域，并获得国家级与研究资助委员会经费支持。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 9.2 hectares at 11 Yuk Choi Road in Hung Hom, Kowloon, close to Victoria Harbour and the Hung Hom transport interchange.主校园位于九龙红磡育才道 11 号，占地约 9.2 公顷，邻近维多利亚港与红磡交通枢纽。
• Designed by a team led by James Kinoshita of P and T Group in 1972, the campus comprises more than twenty red-brick buildings that are largely inter-connected and raised one floor above a podium.校园由 P&T Group 的 James Kinoshita 领导的团队于 1972 年设计，由二十多座红砖建筑组成，各楼大多彼此相连，并以一层架空平台托起。
• The raised podium creates sheltered open-air spaces used for logistics, parking and gathering, and its rotundas and blocks are identified by letters from A to Z, omitting the letters K, O and I.这一架空平台形成可供物流、停车与集会的遮蔽式露天空间；其圆厅与各座以 A 至 Z 的字母标识，其中略去 K、O、I 三个字母。
• Hotel ICON at 17 Science Museum Road in Tsim Sha Tsui East is the university's teaching hotel, providing training for hospitality students in a working hotel environment.位于尖沙咀东部科学馆道 17 号的唯港荟（Hotel ICON）是理大的教学酒店，为酒店管理学生在真实营运环境中提供实习培训。
• In addition to the Hung Hom main campus, the university operates the Hung Hom Bay campus at 8 Hung Lok Road and the West Kowloon campus at 9 Hoi Ting Road in Yau Ma Tei.除红磡主校园外，该校还设有位于红乐道 8 号的红磡湾校园，以及位于油麻地海庭道 9 号的西九龙校园。
• The Jockey Club Auditorium, opened in 2000, seats up to 1,084 people and hosts graduations, concerts and conferences, while the Block Z complex, linked by the 2019 footbridge, adds teaching and research space.2000 年启用的赛马会综艺馆可容纳 1084 人，承办毕业典礼、音乐会与会议；2019 年由天桥连接的 Z 座综合体则增加了教学与研究空间。
• Because the campus is compact and heavily used, PolyU is described as one of the densest educational campuses in the world, with vertical circulation through lift cores and escalators.由于校园紧凑且使用密集，理大被称为全球最密集的教学园区之一，人流通过电梯核心与自动扶梯实现竖向流动。
• Students reach the campus easily by MTR, bus and ferry, and the surrounding district of Hung Hom and Tsim Sha Tsui East provides shops, restaurants and cultural venues within walking distance.学生可通过港铁、巴士与渡轮便捷抵达校园；周边红磡与尖沙咀东部一带步行范围内即有商铺、食肆与文化场所。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is ranked 50th in the world, its highest position to date.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，香港理工大学位列世界第 50 位，创下其历史最好成绩。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places PolyU 79th in the world, reflecting its growing research reputation among Asian universities.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将理大列为世界第 79 位，反映其在亚洲高校中不断提升的研究声誉。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 the university stands in the 101 to 150 band, placing it among the leading research universities in Asia.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 101 至 150 区间，跻身亚洲领先研究型大学之列。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026 to 2027 ranks PolyU 52nd in the world, with strong scores in engineering and hospitality management.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将理大列为世界第 52 位，其工程与酒店管理领域得分突出。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 155,647 works to PolyU with 9,658,232 citations, reflecting a substantial and steadily growing research output.OpenAlex 数据库为理大收录 155,647 篇成果、被引用 9,658,232 次，体现其可观且持续增长的科研产出。
• In the QS World University Rankings 2025 PolyU was placed 57th and in the QS Asia University Rankings 2025 it was ranked 17th in Asia, confirming its regional standing.该校在 2025 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 57 位，在 2025 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中位列亚洲第 17 位，印证了其区域地位。
• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject its School of Hotel and Tourism Management has been ranked first in the world in hospitality and leisure management in recent editions.在 QS 世界大学学科排名中，理大酒店及旅游业管理学院近年来在酒店与休闲管理领域位居世界第一。
• In the 2025 edition of the US patents ranking, PolyU was placed among the world's top 100 universities for the number of US patents granted, the highest position in Hong Kong.在 2025 年度的美国专利排名中，理大按获授美国专利数量跻身全球前 100 名大学，位次为香港最高。
• PolyU is a member of several higher-education alliances linking Hong Kong with the mainland, including the Beijing-Hong Kong Universities Alliance and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance.理大是多个联系香港与内地的高校联盟成员，包括京港大学联盟与粤港澳高校联盟。

Student life

• The university motto is 開物成務，勵學利民, usually rendered in English as "To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind", expressing the institution's emphasis on useful knowledge.该校校训为「開物成務，勵學利民」，意为「学以致用、造福人群」，体现学校重视学以致用、造福社会的办学取向。
• The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region serves as Chancellor of the university, and the institution is governed by a Council whose chairman in the 2020s was Lam Tai-fai.香港特别行政区行政长官担任理大校监，大学由校董会治理，2020 年代校董会主席为林大辉。
• Students join a wide range of clubs, societies and departmental associations, and the university offers comprehensive sports facilities and a structured service-learning and leadership programme.学生参加各类学会、社团与院系组织，校方并提供完善的体育设施以及有系统的服务学习与领袖培养计划。
• Because the campus sits in the busy districts of Hung Hom and Tsim Sha Tsui East, student life is closely tied to the surrounding city, with cheap eateries, markets and transport on the doorstep.由于校园坐落于红磡与尖沙咀东部等繁忙地段，学生生活与周边城市紧密相连，平价食肆、街市与交通近在咫尺。
• The university's teaching hotel, Hotel ICON, houses a training restaurant and boutique hotel that are staffed partly by students, giving hospitality students hands-on experience.该校的教学酒店唯港荟设有实习餐厅与精品酒店，部分岗位由学生担任，为酒店管理学生提供实务经验。
• PolyU runs a large programme of international exchange and summer schools, and incoming students from partner institutions join the campus each year, adding to its international character.理大开设大量国际交换与暑期课程，每年都有伙伴院校的学生来校就读，增强了校园的国际化氛围。
• Athletic and sports clubs represent the university in inter-university competitions, and the campus hosts sports facilities that serve both students and staff.该校的运动与体育社团代表大学参加校际比赛，校园内的体育设施同时服务学生与教职员。
• The university marks its attainment of full university status each 25 November, recalling the 1994 ordinance that renamed the Polytechnic as The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.该校每年 11 月 25 日纪念取得正式大学地位，以忆及 1994 年将其更名为香港理工大学的法例。

Notable people

• George White, the principal of the Government Trade School when it opened in 1937, oversaw the earliest teaching in marine wireless operating, mechanical engineering and building construction.George White 是 1937 年香港官立高级工业学院开办时的校长，主持了航海无线电操作、机械工程与建筑工程等最早期的教学。
• Sir Sze-yuen Chung, a mechanical engineer and legislator, proposed the creation of a Hong Kong polytechnic in 1965 and became the founding chairman of the Polytechnic's Board of Directors in 1972, later receiving its first honorary doctorate in 1989.机械工程师兼立法局议员钟士元爵士于 1965 年倡议创办香港理工学院，1972 年出任学院首届董事会主席，并于 1989 年获颁该校首个荣誉博士学位。
• Tang Ping-yuen was appointed chairman of the Polytechnic Planning Committee in 1969, and the committee's reports set out the design and curriculum of the institution that opened in 1972.唐炳源于 1969 年获委任为理工学院筹备委员会主席，该委员会的报告确定了 1972 年开办的院校的架构与课程。
• Leung Chun-ying, who studied surveying at the Hong Kong Polytechnic and graduated in 1974 before completing further study in Britain, served as the second Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from 2012 to 2017.梁振英曾在香港理工学院修读测量学并于 1974 年毕业，其后赴英国深造，2012 至 2017 年出任香港特别行政区第二任行政长官。
• Vivienne Tam, who studied design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic and graduated with distinction, founded the fashion label VIVIENNE TAM in New York and had her work collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.谭燕玉在香港理工学院以优异成绩修毕设计课程，其后在纽约创立时装品牌 VIVIENNE TAM，其作品被大都会艺术博物馆与维多利亚与艾伯特博物馆收藏。
• Lam Tai-fai, who completed studies in textile technology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1981, became a businessman and later chairman of the PolyU Council, playing a leading role in its governance.林大辉于 1981 年在香港理工学院修毕纺织工艺学课程，其后从商并出任理大校董会主席，在大学治理中发挥主导作用。
• Tony Leung Ka-fai, the award-winning Hong Kong actor, studied graphic design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic, and the director Wong Kar-wai likewise studied graphic design at the institution.获奖香港演员梁家辉曾在香港理工学院修读平面设计，导演王家卫亦曾在该校修读平面设计。
• Gigi Leung, the singer and actress, took a design diploma at the Hong Kong Polytechnic before entering the entertainment industry, one of many alumni from the institution's design and media programmes.歌手兼演员梁咏琪在进入演艺界前于香港理工学院修读设计文凭课程，是该校设计与传媒课程众多校友之一。
• Wong Siu-wah, a graduate of the university's doctoral business programme, founded and chairs the listed kitchenware and household goods group King's Flair International and supports the university's foundation.黄少华毕业于理大工商管理博士课程，创办并出任上市公司科勁國際（控股）主席，并支持大学发展基金。
• Mary Yu, a fashion and textile graduate of the university, founded her own couture house known for merging Chinese and Western elements and became a Hong Kong Outstanding Young Person.余嫿毕业于理大时装及纺织学院，创办以中西合璧见长的华服品牌，并获选为香港十大杰出青年。
• Jin-Guang Teng, a structural engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019 and has emphasised applying research to benefit society.结构工程专家、中国科学院院士滕锦光于 2019 年出任香港理工大学校长，强调让科研应用于现实、造福社会。
• Among the university's other distinguished graduates are senior lawyers, engineers and civil servants, and the institution maintains an alumni federation that links its graduates across Hong Kong and the mainland.该校其他杰出毕业生中还有资深律师、工程师与公务员；学校设有校友会联会，联系香港与内地的毕业生。