All secondary five students will travel to the mainland in April at the soonest for their mandatory study tour under the Citizenship and Social Development subject, said Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin. Choi said the Education Bureau will take care of the arrangements for the tours and mull with Chinese authorities on Covid-19 coordination. Schools need only to ask students to sign up for the tours, Choi also said, hoping they will seize the opportunity during the Easter holidays. Choi said the bureau will first send students on one-to-two-day tours in Guangdong province now that the border has opened. As for newly hired government teachers and those planning for a promotion, there will also be seven or eight study tours, offering some 800 places.
