Congratulations to the following award recipients on receiving the Faculty’s Outstanding Alumni Award (in alphabetical order of the last name):
Outstanding Alumni Award in Community Service Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Humanities 2023
Ms Doris LEUNG Shuk Yi
Founder of Diamond Tech (Hong Kong) Limited
Founder and CEO, Diamond Cab (Hong Kong) Limited
BA (Hons) in Language and Communication (1993)
Department of English and Communication
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Humanities 2023
Mr NIU Yi
Founder of Unicow Education & Technology (International) Holdings Limited
Chinese IB/MYP Language Teacher/ Advisor, Chinese International School
Master of Arts in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (2010)
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Entrepreneurial Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Humanities 2023
Mr ZHANG Quan
Founder and CEO of Twelve Flavors Group
Master of Arts in Chinese Culture (2012)
Department of Chinese Culture
The Outstanding Alumni Award of PolyU Faculty of Humanities (website) aims to recognise the graduates of the Faculty for their contribution to University and Faculty, and their diverse accomplishments in various areas, including professional achievement, scholarly achievement, and community service achievement.
Read more about the awardees:
Outstanding Alumni Award in Community Service Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Humanities 2023
Ms Doris LEUNG Shuk Yi
Ms Leung is an award-winning and pioneering social entrepreneur and founder of Diamond Cab, the first wheelchair-accessible taxi service company in Hong Kong. Over the past 12 years, Ms Leung’s work has inspired the taxi industry within Hong Kong to recognise the need for and to allow increased access to barrier-free taxis. Currently, with over 100 wheelchair-accessible taxis of different brands operating throughout Hong Kong, Diamond Cab has set the benchmark of running quality taxi services with empathy. Ms Leung’s work has demonstrated how commercial business can be improved by adopting a social mission, especially with the untapped need for ageing care. Ms Leung has just co-founded Diamond Tech to further scale up the impact of Diamond Cab with new technologies. The first project is to create a driving simulator to train the new barrier-free taxi drivers with the veteran Diamond Cab drivers programmed in the software. Diamond Cab will start to provide training courses with the simulator for marginalised groups e.g. ex-prisoners, low-educated youth, women, etc.
Ms Leung has received numerous recognition and awards from the industry and community, including the Ira Dan Kaye Community Service Award 2022, Top 10 Business of Improving Lives at Cartier Impact Awards 2022, and JESSICA Most Successful Women 2015.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Humanities 2023
Mr NIU Yi
During the past 13 years, Mr Niu’s teaching reputation across global IB schools has gained wide recognition. He organised and coached students to participate in the World Scholars Cup actively. His team has won the world team championship and two individual global championships for two years at Yale University. As a passionate educator, he has developed his patented product (both USA and HKSAR), Niu Xiaozi AR Chinese Flash Cards, which is used by more than 200 schools and kindergartens worldwide and won him the Asia International Innovative Invention Gold Award in 2018. He has actively contributed to academic workshops as a leader and a keynote speaker in different workshops and seminars to share his teaching experience with other educators at home and abroad from 2012 till now, which has contributed to his selection as Hong Kong Outstanding Youth Teacher Awardee in 2017.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Entrepreneurial Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Humanities 2023
Mr ZHANG Quan
Mr Zhang was born in Zhejiang province. He received the Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the East China Normal University in Shanghai in 2011, and obtained the Master of Arts in Chinese Culture from PolyU in 2012. During his study in Hong Kong, he was the co-founder of the website “Gang Piao Quan” which is now the most influential online platform for Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong. He is the founder and CEO of the Sichuan restaurant Twelve Flavors, the largest Sichuan cuisine chain in Hong Kong. Mr Zhang has rich experience in digital upgrading of traditional enterprises, and he is also committed to deliver Chinese Culture through food and to enhancing cultural exchanges and integration between young people in Hong Kong and mainland China. In 2021, he served as Council Member of the Hong Kong Quality and Talent Migrant Association and Chairman of the Hotel and Catering Industry Committee.
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