Secretary for Innovation & Technology Alfred Sit today attended an award ceremony to hail the bodies and practitioners in the testing and certification (T&C) sector for their outstanding performance in manpower development and service enhancement.

The Council for Testing & Certification launched the Testing & Certification Manpower Development Award Scheme 2021-22 for the first time with the aim of encouraging T&C bodies to invest in talent training and development.

Its other goal is to commend T&C practitioners who strive for continuous learning or contribute to service quality improvement.

Addressing the ceremony, Mr Sit said he was glad to see that the whole T&C sector had been paying great importance to manpower development.

“In order for Hong Kong’s T&C sector to better grasp the vast opportunities as provided under the National 14th Five-Year Plan and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we need more capable and energetic young people to join the T&C profession for a stronger talent pool.”

Public and private T&C bodies of various scales and fields, as well as their employees, were drawn to apply for the scheme's manpower development corporate award and excellent professional award.

Click here for the list of awardees.