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Madam Chancellor, vice Chancellor, members of the university cancellers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It’s a great pleasure for me to be asked to address the congregation on behalf of today’s honoring graduates. I am honored to be receiving today’s degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with which I had a long relationship. In 1964, I planed to take a trip to Hong Kong where I hoped to meet my parents, my brother and my sister, all four living in Shanghai at the time. But to obtain visas for them from British authorities was a difficult problem. Finally, I appealed for help to Dr. AML, the first vice chancellor of this university, who intervened very actively and the five of us succeeded in meeting in Hong Kong for an emotion felt reunion of two weeks. Well, in Hong Kong, I was asked by Dr. Li to give a public lecture on modern high energy physics in the then new city hall in central. The lecture took place on the afternoon of on 1st, December, 1964. For some reason, the Chinese university of Hong Kong made the announcement about it only one day before, on the 29th. The topic of the lecture was not very appetizing for the general public, yet it drew a huge crowd of several thousands of people, mostly young students, many of whom were to become professors, now teaching in various fields in Hong Kong. The image of thousands of young people in queue winding around the city Hall has been engraved in my mind ever since. For it be spoke to me the yielding of young Chinese students for modern knowledge and modern careers, it also be spoke to me the aspiration of Chinese people to emerge from centuries of backwardness to gain its but under the sun of under the sun among the people of the world. Thirty years have past since that day late in 1964. The world has enormously changed. Perhaps the biggest changes are to be found right here in Hong Kong, whether one focuses on the physical shape of the city, its economy, its social political system, Hong K