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Honorary Fellow –Citation Mr Shih Wing-ching Mr Shih Wing-ching, whose ancestral hometown is Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong at an early age. While at school, he was already much concerned about society and people’s livelihood, and was suspended from school for participating in labour rights protection movements. After graduating from secondary school, he taught at an evening school for workers for eight consecutive years, helping dropout workers acquire cultural knowledge. In 1978, Mr Shih set up Centaline Property Agency Limited with his classmates, which has been serving Hong Kong for over thirty years. Centaline was the first company offering consumers property information via the internet and electronic maps, which greatly increased market transparency. To date, Centaline has over 20,000 employees working in 30 cities on the Mainland. Mr Shih is hardworking, open-minded and uniquely insightful. He follows Laozi’s philosophy of managing without intervention, allowing his employees to develop and work on their own ideas. This way, they work happily with high motivation and creativity as well as a sense of responsibility. All his businesses operate in this way, and grow naturally under a self-organized mode. While engaged in the business sector, Mr Shih still cares about the community. In his spare time, he often hosts radio programmes and writes newspaper columns, commenting on current affairs such as the integration between Mainland China and Hong Kong, personal finance, land policies and management philosophy. Over the years, Mr Shih has published thousands of articles, which have been collected and published in books welcomed by general readers. He can