The result of “2016 Macao Economy Thesis Competition”, which was organized by Macao Economic Association and sponsored by Macao Foundation, was announced on 17th December, 2016. Students from Faculty of Business of City University of Macau won two prizes at the competition. The team consisted of Chan Waichan, Zheng Jiexin, Tao Hui, Yan Yangchun and Ian Chikong won the Second Prize and the team of Wang Yilin, Tang Huiting, Liu Jiajia and Chan Io Seng won the Third Prize in the said competition.
The competition offered First, Second, Third Prize and Merit Award in both student group and open group competition. Since there was no First Prize winner, the Second Prize was the top merit of this competition.
Mr. Lao Pun Lap, Coordinator of Policy Study Office of Macao Special Administrative Region, remarked that there were more participants with higher quality as compared with the previous year. Mr. Yang Yunzhong, President of the Macao Economic Association encouraged all candidates to commit in research with enthusiasm and conscientious. Mr. Lao Chi Ngai, Chairman of the Macao Economic Association revealed that there was a great number of candidates submitted their paper and their focus studies were relevant to the social economic development in Macau and he hoped that these papers would contribute to the sustainable development of Macao.
CityU emphasized on students’ all-round development. Dr. Peng Chao, Assistant Professor of FOB organized a few teams of students to participate in the competition. He provided full support and close professional supervision to enable students to acquire comprehensive knowledge of Macao within a relatively short period of time, to conduct in-depth studies which presented some excellent papers subsequently.
Students who won the awards expressed their gratitude to Dr. Chao for his coaching and guidance. They strongly felt that City University was earnestly concern with attaining student overall quality. They were inspired to dwell in more research studies. Students declared that they would get themselves fully prepared and look forward to participating in the completion in the forthcoming year and hopefully to accomplish good results.