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Research Institutes and Centres 95 The centre organizes business plan competitions including the Vice- Chancellor’s Cup of Student Entrepreneurship and the BoozAllen Hamilton Social Venture Challenge. It also assists in organizing the Vice-Chancellor’s Cup of Student Innovation. The centre’s executive board includes members from various faculties to promote entrepreneurship throughout the University. Centre for Financial Research on China (CFRC) Tel.: 2603 5119 Fax.: 2603 5136 E-mail: apib@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.baf.cuhk.edu.hk/apib/research/cfrc.html The APIB’s Centre for Financial Research on China was established in June 1994 to support research on China’s financial markets and provide related training and consultancy services. It promotes interaction between academics and practitioners in the region and serves as a clearing house for financial data and research on mainland and Hong Kong financial markets. The centre runs three major programmes: • The CFRC Financial Markets Database Programme, set up to support academic and applied research. The database comprises a China and Hong Kong Financial Derivatives Database with data on futures, options and mutual funds on the mainland and in Hong Kong, and a Mainland China Database with financial data, company profile, and equity price data of public companies on the mainland. • The Publication/Research Programme, set up to promote and publish interdisciplinary, comparative and applied research on capital markets in the region. • The Training/Conference Programme, set up to develop consultancy and training programmes for the securities industry in Hong Kong and on the mainland, and organize international conferences on the region’s capital markets. Centre for Hospitality and Real Estate Research Tel.: 2609 8798 Fax.: 2603 7724 E-mail: chrer@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://htm.baf.cuhk.edu.hk/chrer.htm The mission of the Centre for Hospitality and Real Estate Research is to conduct industry-oriented research and arrange executive training. It conducts research projects that are relevant to the hotel, restaurant, airline, tourism, and related hospitality industries, and takes part in policy discussion. Besides, the centre disseminates research findings and reviews frontier knowledge for executives operating in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. Under the guidance of the Advisory Committee on Hotel and Tourism Management, the centre works closely with industry executives and launches different research projects. Its mode of operation is similar to the Marketing