CRI听力:TEDxHongKong Held to Cultivate Learning Spirit

This is a 15-year-old Hong Kong student performing A Cappella at the event, an art form of solo singing without instrumental accompaniment.

TEDxHongKong has invited speakers from all professions to tell their experience in learning, including photographer, dancer, entrepreneurs, as well as authors.

Jong Lee, organizer of TEDxHongKong, says the theme "Never Stop" means that learning is a life journey that everyone should take.

"Every day you are learning something, so we are hoping to showcase many dimensions and wonderful aspects of learning. Learning different ways, different things, different time and difference places. "

Even though David Goldsmith is an experienced public speaker, he admits it is not easy to give TEDx speeches, which is limited to less than 18 minutes each.

"If you give me an hour to give a speech, I would give it immediately. But if you ask me to give a speech that's only five minutes, it will take me hours to prepare. When you are given such short time, you have to condense your thoughts into something, how to bring it down to something small and bite size that people can grab it. So that's the challenge."

As a non-profit organization, there are about 40 volunteers helping for the event. Ivy Shum has been one of them since 2011.

"I really enjoy the group of people liked-minded, we all thinking in the same way, we really want some ideas to spread out, we want to talk with people. So this is a really good place to gather thousands of people in one place, and we can keep talking."

I also talk to one of the audience, who has been participating in TED events in India, Qatar, the US as well as China. He says it is the friendships he makes during the event that shine most.

"It's just new speakers, for me, it is more networking, it's trying meeting people, share their stories, learn from them and know what they are doing."

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is self-organized in different cities, even in different schools around the globe, to bring people together to share a TED like experience. With the widely circulated videos online, people are not just satisfied with enjoying motivational talks, they also want to acquire the skills to give public speeches just like TED.

For CRI, this is Li Jing in Hong Kong.