Ying Wa College (Chinese: 英華書院; aka YWC), is a private boys' school located at 1 Ying Wa Street, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in Malacca in 1818, then known as the Anglo-Chinese College, by the first Protestant missionary to China, Rev. Robert Morrison. In 1843, the school was moved to Hong Kong to continue its work of education.
The College Deed, signed in 1821, stated that the objective of the school was the reciprocal cultivation of English and Chinese literature as well as the diffusion of Christianity (Chinese: 促進中西方學術交流，並廣傳基督福音). These aims remain today in the context of a very different world.
In 2007, the primary school division was re-established, after decades of closure since the 1960s. In 2008, the school launched the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS).
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