Sun Yat-sen Statue
The Sun Yat-sen Statue at the Lily Pond was unveiled in 2003. The statue shows Sun Yat-sen as he looked during a visit to HKU in 1923 when he made a public lecture in the Great Hall (now Loke Yew Hall) at the invitation of the University Union. It was on this historic occasion that he remarked, "I feel as though I have returned home, because Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong are my intellectual birthplace."
Sun Yat-sen Statue
The Sun Yat-sen Statue at the Lily Pond was unveiled in 2003. The casting of the statue was done by Professor Situ Zhaoguang of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. It took three years to complete.

Sun Yat-sen was among the first graduates of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, which was the predecessor of the HKU Faculty of Medicine.

The statue shows Sun Yat-sen as he looked when he visited HKU in 1923; he was aged 56 at that time. On February 20, he made a public lecture in the Great Hall (now Loke Yew Hall) at the invitation of the University Union. It was on this historic occasion that he remarked,
"I feel as though I have returned home, because Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong are my intellectual birthplace."

Website: http://100.hku.hk/sunyatsen/index.html