Activity Category: Media Engagement Activity

Hong Kong’s National Security Department, a unit of the Hong Kong Police Force, organized NStudio (NStudio同心‧共創‧護國安), a national security-themed marketing proposal competition for primary and secondary school students, with Sing Tao News Corporation Limited listed as a supporting organization alongside the Security Bureau, the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau, and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers. Students submitted creative campaigns built around the concept of a “holistic national security outlook” (總體國家安全觀), and under the competition’s official rules, copyright of entries was assigned to police, who could then edit, translate, and redistribute the material without further consent or payment. At an awards ceremony, Security Secretary Chris Tang and acting Police Commissioner Simon Kan Kai-yan (簡啟恩) attended to honor winning entries, which included AI-generated game cards and virtual-reality role-play scenarios. Sing Tao’s English-language paper, The Standard, covered a related police-run video contest, NStory, whose judging panel has included film director Lee Lik-chi and legislator Tang Fei. Hong Kong’s National Security Law was imposed directly by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee in 2020. Because the law has a direct impact on the media environment and media freedoms in Hong Kong, and because the territory’s national security enforcement operates in coordination with central government bodies, this database treats media and national security cooperation in Hong Kong as a cross-territory engagement.

On June 26, 2022, Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK premieredBauhinia in Bloom — Cross-Media Musical Performance (紫荊花開—跨媒體音樂匯演), a 70-minute, five-act production commissioned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security to mark 2022’s National Security Education Day. Composed, written, and directed by Mei Kwong-chiu (梅廣釗), chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Composers and a member of the China Musicians Association, a mainland state-affiliated body, the performance involved more than 170 performers, including the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Dance Company, and several lion dance and martial arts troupes, and used orchestral, choral, and dance elements to narrate what the Committee’s event page described as the “significant historical development of the motherland and Hong Kong over the past century,” promoting the “holistic national security outlook” (總體國家安全觀). That page confirms the program “was produced by RTHK.” National Security Education Day has been co-organized since 2021 by Hong Kong’s national security committee together with the Central People’s Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong and the central government’s Office for Safeguarding National Security, both directly named as supporting organizers in official announcements of the event.