Move to put more smiles on the faces of Greater Bay Area's kids

Rewarding experience

"Street dance is trending and attracting young people everywhere," Tai said. So much that leaving his earlier job has turned out to be a rewarding experience for him. "I've greater satisfaction now, compared with my job in Hong Kong. Leaving the place where I lived for nearly three decades has made a big difference."

He has more plans though. His long-term ambition is to take the street dance culture to more places in the mainland.

He said he believes that stronger youths make a stronger country, and that the education and art training for children in the countryside can be improved upon.

"I'm now teaching street dance in just one village, and I hope to open such classes in 50 or even 100 villages in the next five years to make this cool art form available to the abandoned children in the backwaters," he said. "It will be of greater help if the local government can provide more policy-like assistance to such startups."

He said he wants to make a mark in life in the mainland through his hard work, something that will encourage more young people from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions to seek jobs or start their own business in the mainland.