The Polytechnic was formally established on August 1, 1972 when the Board of Governors assumed responsibility for the new institution, taking over the campus of the former Technical College and embarking on a programme of expansion to meet new government targets which brought the enrolment of full-time day equivalent students to 8,000 and part-time evening students to 20,000 by 1978

Although the Polytechnic is a successor of the Hong Kong Technical College, it status is quite different, in that, like the two universities, it is financed through the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC). This arrangement, which has proved to be very satisfactory, was at the time unique to Hong Kong

1972-1982 Tenth Anniversary 十週年紀念

Edited by S.F. Bailey ; compiled by David Poon & Janet Lau