President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and local National People's Congress deputy Nancy Ip said the university's future medical school will focus on research and technology.

Plans to set up the SAR's third medical school were announced last year, and HKUST officials have said they hoped to open it in two or three years.

“This medical school would be a research medical school so that the kind of graduates who we train will have both the research knowledge and also the clinical training, so that they will be able to contribute not only to address the medical doctors shortage in Hong Kong, but also to help Hong Kong become the international innovation and technology hub, for example, in healthcare,” Ip said on the sidelines of the "two sessions" in Beijing.

She also said HKUST will work with medical schools overseas to make sure its medical faculty is of world-class standard.