YCYW Worldwide Campuses Unite to Celebrate 92 Years of Legacy

Leading Future Education with Innovation

HONG KONG, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Yew Chung Yew Wah (YCYW) Education Network campuses worldwide celebrated Founder's Day on 10 October, to honour the 92-year legacy and the remarkable contributions of its founder, Madam Tsang Chor-hang, to the field of education.

YCYW held the ceremony at the Yew Wah International Education School of Guangzhou (YWIES Guangzhou). This year also marks the milestone of YWIES Guangzhou's 10th anniversary. The school's steady growth reflects YCYW's strong commitment to innovation in China.

During the ceremony, Dr Betty Chan Po-king, CEO and School Supervisor of YCYW said, "We are united by Hau Cheung Po Po's mission to 'Honouring China' through exceptional education."

In 1932, Madam Tsang Chor-hang founded the first Yew Chung School with a vision of uplifting the nation through education during a time when China faced severe internal and external challenges. She guided the school through the difficult years of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the post-war turmoil, nurturing countless students. What began as a humble kindergarten in Hong Kong SAR has since evolved into a global network of schools, spanning early childhood to tertiary education, with campuses in Hong Kong SAR, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Yantai, Chongqing, and Zhejiang Tongxiang in China, as well as in Silicon Valley in the US, and Somerset in the UK.

For nearly a century, YCYW has been a pioneer in international education. With the development of China's reform and opening-up, the demand for high-quality international education in the Chinese mainland has continued to grow. In response, YCYW has established Yew Chung International Schools (YCIS) for expatriate students, and Yew Wah International Education Schools (YWIES) mainly enrolling Chinese mainland students. YCYW provides a unique bilingual learning community that blends the strengths of both Chinese and Western educational philosophies, setting a new standard for international education in contemporary China.

YWIES Guangzhou epitomises YCYW's accomplishments. Dr Betty Chan Po-king highlighted the school's achievements. Since its establishment in 2014, YWIES Guangzhou has celebrated remarkable success. Its graduates have gained admission to prestigious universities around the world, including Oxford, Cambridge, and other renowned institutions in the United States and elsewhere. In 2023, the school was designated as one of the first demonstration schools for international education in Guangzhou under the "14^th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Education in Guangzhou", a testament to the high-quality education and the strength of YCYW's educational philosophy.

Driven by its commitment to provide quality international education to more families, YCYW will continue to embrace a multicultural approach to education in China. Starting in the 2025/26 academic year, YWIES Guangzhou and YCIS Shanghai will introduce the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) programme, in addition to the existing Advanced Level of the British General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and the International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes. YCYW is dedicated to fostering the integration and sharing of educational resources between Hong Kong SAR and the Chinese mainland, and promoting the development of high-quality teaching, learning, and research.

Moreover, in order to address the challenges posed by the current era of artificial intelligence, YCYW is actively exploring a new educational paradigm to lead future-oriented education. YCYW launched the Future School Programme this year to enhance the innovative capabilities of the EdFutures Division and implement its forward-looking educational approach.

The Future School Programme is an innovative educational initiative developed by YCYW. It adopts a university-style modular learning approach, which allows students to customise their learning experiences based on their personal interests and development goals and to explore future career paths. Dr Betty Chan Po-king described the Future School Programme as "a rethinking of education". The programme strives to address topics of particular importance in the 21^st century, and encourages students to undertake philosophical investigations to deepen their understanding of the world. It also includes courses on entrepreneurship to help students develop the skills and mindset needed to innovate and succeed in a rapidly changing global economy.

YWIES Zhejiang Tongxiang has taken the lead in implementing the Future School Programme at the upper secondary level. The ceremony also unveiled the school's newly upgraded campus, which combines STEM learning, art creation, interactive displays, and other multifunctional features. YCYW plans to expand the Future School Programme to other campuses in the future.

The EdFutures Division is another key component of YCYW's "Seeds for the Future" programme, which aims to transcend the boundaries of traditional education. This initiative encourages students to cultivate lateral thinking skills and develop the ability to integrate diverse insights into a cohesive understanding, so that they can become the leaders in their own learning journeys. EdFutures has formed active collaboration with prestigious institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR). These partnerships enable students to interact personally with industry experts and immerse themselves in real-world scenarios, thus enhancing their educational experience and preparing them for future challenges.

In addition, Dr Betty Chan Po-king shared an important milestone in YCYW's history. The Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE) has successfully achieved institutional accreditation for operating Postgraduate programmes at Qualifications Framework Level 6. YCCECE will launch the new Master of Education and the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE in Early Childhood Education) programmes in the 2025/26 academic year. YCCECE will become the first private institution in Hong Kong SAR to offer the PGDE and the Master's Degree in Education.

Looking ahead, YCYW remains dedicated to fostering the next generation of leaders, with a mission to continue pushing the boundaries of education. Dr Betty Chan Po-king concluded, "It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to raise people. Let's honour the remarkable journey that has brought us here, and look ahead with renewed determination, as we continue to cultivate the seeds of greatness in our students, who will shape a better future for humanity."

About Yew Chung Yew Wah Education Network

An education pioneer with deep roots in Hong Kong SAR, Yew Chung Yew Wah (YCYW) Education Network encapsulates a unique educational pedigree that combines the best of Chinese and Western cultures with a mission to raise competent, compassionate, globally aware leaders who strive for a better world. Visionary educator Madam Tsang Chor-hang founded the first Yew Chung school and kindergarten in Hong Kong, China in 1932. In the 1970s, Dr Betty Chan Po-king picked up her mantle to provide high quality bilingual education. In the 1990s, Yew Chung was invited to Shanghai and Beijing to open schools for expatriate communities in the Chinese mainland. Madam Tsang was ably succeeded by her daughter Dr Betty Chan Po-king, who, along with her husband Professor Paul Yip Kwok-wah, later founded the YCYW Education Network to prepare Chinese and expatriate students to make lifelong contributions on the international stage.

With nearly a century of dedication to education, the YCYW Education Network now offers a complete track from early childhood to tertiary education. The Yew Chung Approach to Early Childhood Education: Centering Emergent Curriculum, Child-Led Inquiry, and Multilingualism explains the 12 Values that lie at the core of YCYW and form the basis of our pedagogy. The Yew Chung Approach offers a unique and innovative perspective in the field of education. It combines traditional Chinese Confucianism with Dewey's progressive education theory, affirms the importance of international education, provides a learning environment inclusive of both Chinese and Western cultures, and has laid the foundation for the innovative development of early childhood education curriculum in the 21^st century.

YCYW has an extensive network of schools, including Yew Chung International Schools, the Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education, Yew Wah International Education Schools, Yew Wah Schools, Yew Wah International Education Kindergartens, Yew Wah Infant and Toddler Education Centres, and the Yew Wah Infant and Toddler Discovery Centres. YCYW schools are located in eight cities of China—Hong Kong SAR, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Qingdao, Yantai, Zhejiang Tongxiang—as well as in Silicon Valley in the US, and Somerset in the UK. YCYW provides quality education and growth opportunities to more than 12,000 students and teachers each year.

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YCYW Worldwide Campuses Unite to Celebrate 92 Years of Legacy

YCYW Worldwide Campuses Unite to Celebrate 92 Years of Legacy

HONG KONG, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Xsight Group (known as Xsight), a Hong Kong–headquartered cross-border technology group founded in 2004, has been featured as a research case in "How AI Agents Orchestrate Work Across Silos," a special report published in the September–October 2026 issue of Harvard Business Review. The article examines how a new generation of AI systems can connect functions and reduce the coordination friction that slows companies down, citing Xsight's practice of decomposing complex cross-departmental decisions into modular tasks and building a layered agentic AI orchestration system as a valuable model for cross-border organizational coordination.

The Hidden Bottleneck in Cross-Functional Decision-Making

The HBR article opens with a tariff scenario that many global organizations will recognize: a CEO directs the company to pull forward inventory before a new tariff takes effect, yet weeks later the strategy remains unexecuted. After rounds of revisions and compromises among procurement, logistics, finance, legal, marketing, sales and merchandising, the company implements a patchwork of suboptimal actions.

The article argues that such breakdowns are not caused by bureaucracy or risk aversion, but by a basic limitation: "No single individual's brain can hold all the relevant information, constraints, and scenarios." Information is asymmetric, and issues and risks emerge one by one rather than all at once. Delays in executing cross-functional strategies, the authors argue, are "signals that the organization has exceeded its capacity to orchestrate decisions."

Even companies with task-based AI tools are still struggling, because most agents operate independently within functions. As the article notes, when specialized agents operate independently, "their outputs may conflict."

Xsight Group's Approach: Modular Decisions and Layered AI Orchestration

The HBR article identifies Xsight as one of two companies studied that achieved significant improvement in orchestration by dividing decisions into precise, well-defined tasks. This means specifying inputs, outputs, constraints and objectives of each task and standardizing information and assumptions so that procurement, logistics and finance all work from the same definitions.

With this as the basis, Xsight developed a multi-layered agentic AI orchestration system. At the task level, specialized AI agents handle contract analysis, demand forecasting and capacity planning. At the orchestration level, connectors verify that outputs stay within management-specified guardrails and route validated information across workflows, while a master AI orchestrator structures and coordinates the analyses and human input needed for enterprise decisions.

"This system is not designed to replace management in making final business decisions. Instead, it serves as an operational backbone that handles the heavy lifting of coordination, including task distribution, information synchronization, and conflict validation. By liberating managers from endless alignment meetings, we enable them to focus on high-order commercial judgment. The true value of human-AI collaboration lies in unlocking human experiential judgment to empower organizations to make faster, higher-quality collective decisions in the face of global market volatility," said by Lewis Chan, the founder and CEO of Xsight Group.

From Trade Enterprise to Open Industry Platform

Xsight Group's selection as an HBR research case reflects its long-term investment in cross-border supply chain infrastructure and its ongoing transformation. The group's core business, UX168, is a data-driven cross-border supply chain e-commerce platform serving more than 80 million end consumers globally through over 30 mainstream international sales channels, with R&D, operations and supply chain centers in Hong Kong SAR, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Huizhou, the United States, the Netherlands and Japan.

Over the past two decades, Xsight has built an extensive global supply chain network. The company laid its foundational manufacturing connections between 2009 and 2010 by establishing Shenzhen and Guangzhou subsidiaries, tapping into China's apparel, auto parts, and tools manufacturing clusters. Xsight then accelerated its international expansion with a U.S. overseas warehouse in 2013, followed by its entry into the Japanese market in 2017. The strategic footprint expanded further with the launch of a Netherlands fulfillment center in 2024. By 2025, Xsight marked a milestone by operationalizing a digital origin warehouse in Zhongshan alongside a 120,000-square-meter intelligent mega-warehouse in Huizhou. Powered by IoT, intelligent sorting, and predictive data forecasting, these facilities seamlessly connect manufacturing plants, digital platforms, and global distribution channels.

At the core of this operational excellence is the group's proprietary XsOS operating system, which standardizes and modularizes the entire business value chain. The system seamlessly integrates product selection, sampling, pricing, fulfillment, and marketing into an intelligent closed loop spanning data insights, product proposals, flexible manufacturing, and global warehousing. By transforming traditional workflows, XsOS has successfully doubled the company's new-product hit rate from 10% to over 20%, while consistently fueling a compound annual growth rate that exceeds 40% year-over-year.

With the rapid evolution of AI large language models, Lewis Chan has announced a new strategic upgrade for the group: transforming Xsight from a technology-enabled trading enterprise into an open, vertical industry digital supply chain platform, continuing to reshape global trade through data technology.

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Xsight Group Featured in Harvard Business Review on AI Agent Orchestration Across Silos