This undated photo shows China Daily Hong Kong Edition's senior reporter Kate Li Bingcun, who is  China Daily’s biggest winner at the Hong Kong News Awards this year, taking home a top prize and 2nd runner-up award in two categories. (PHOTO / CHINA DAILY)

China Daily Hong Kong Edition on Friday won eight prizes, including one top prize and two 1st runner-ups, across five categories on Friday at this year’s Hong Kong News Awards, one of the city’s most prestigious news awards events.

Continuing its 13-year winning streak, China Daily Hong Kong Edition has scooped up a total of 113 awards at the news awards, including 10 in 2022, 11 in 2021, nine in 2020, and 12 in 2019.

Senior reporter Kate Li Bingcun was China Daily’s biggest winner this year, taking home a top prize and 2nd runner-up award in two categories

Among them, CDHK took four out of five awards in the Best Arts and Culture News Reporting category, breaking new ground in its efforts in arts and culture reporting.

Senior reporter Kate Li Bingcun was China Daily’s biggest winner this year, taking home a top prize and 2nd runner-up award in two categories.

Li’s three-piece culture series, named “In dialogue with time”, was crowned top prize in Best Arts and Culture News Reporting. The story takes on three dimensions of the city’s efforts to become a culture and arts hub, including the shipping of national treasures from Beijing’s Palace Museum to Hong Kong Palace Museum; the city’s unique ways of showcasing the treasures innovatively; and a touching story of an ardent art fan who is committed to the restoration of cultural relics in his post-retirement life.

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Li also won 2nd runner-up in Best Science News Reporting for a center-spread data journalism project, “Don’t pollute with light”, focusing on the light pollution problem in the Greater Bay Area.

This was also one of two data journalism projects receiving honors at this year’s news awards, taking the total awards received by the data journalism team to 11 since its establishment in 2016. Honors have included two top prizes and three first-runner-up awards.

Li was at the Hong Kong Palace Museum for a planned interview when the good news about her awards came in. Immersed in a vibrant cultural atmosphere, Li said that the city had seen rapid development in the culture industry in the past few years, and is moving towards the goal of building itself into a hub for arts and cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world.

“In the future, I will continue to explore more fresh and interesting topics responding to the call of the times about Hong Kong and other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. I will do more in-depth reporting, inspiring people with more thoughts,” Li said.

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China Daily senior reporter Jenny Wang Yuke won two awards in Best Arts and Culture News Reporting this year, including 1st runner-up for the story “Era of collectivism”, and the second Merit for the story “Luxury collection & investment ‘sold’!”. The latter were made up of two data journalism pieces written by Wang.

Reflecting on the two stories, Wang said that reporting amid the pandemic, which was full of lulls and stagnation, was not easy; however, it put her professional capabilities and keen news instincts to the test in capturing the nuanced shifts in the consumer market, societal milieu, and people’s mentality.

“Triumph is fleeting, but committed toil for a higher notch has to be a constant. I treasure the wealth of opportunities and leeway for my pursuit in journalism and writing furnished by China Daily Hong Kong”, Wang said, adding that growing with China Daily is a testament to the wisdom “think big, do big, and achieve biggest”.

Oasis Hu Qichen, who has entered the journalist field for only one year, won first runner-up in the Best Young Reporter category.

“I attribute this award largely to opportunities offered by China Daily Hong Kong, the starting point of my career. Editors helped me a lot, and the interviewees gave me a lot of patience without seeking return,” Hu said, calling this prize “a collective effort”.'

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In addition, Chitralekha Basu won the first Merit in Best Arts and Culture News Reporting with the Art Tech Series.

The veteran page-designer team of Mok Kwok-cheong and Billy Wong Siukay won second runner-up in Best News Page Design (Single Page) and the first Merit in the Best News Page Design (Series) categories.