Yau Ching

Biography

Yau Ching is a Hong Kong television presenter and actress, born on 14 September 1999. She attended secondary school at Pok Oi Hospital Chan Kai Memorial Secondary School and lived in Mei Tin Estate in the Sha Tin district. She took the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination in 2017 but her results were lower than expected. In 2015, she participated in a beauty contest for a liquor company and won an award due to her distinctive stage presence compared to other contestants. In 2017, she entered the Miss Hong Kong Pageant and gained widespread attention after being nicknamed "the young version of Lee San San," and at age 17 became the youngest contestant in that year's pageant. She advanced to the top ten and was chosen by actor Miao Qiaowei as her student mentor. Although she missed the top five by just one vote, she was awarded the "Runner-up Miss Hong Kong" title and received a trophy. In September 2017, she enrolled in the 29th TVB Artist Training Course and became an artist under management contract after six months. In 2020, she switched to a basic artist contract allowing her to work with other networks, with her first program being the ViuTV variety show "Household Battlefield." She officially left TVB in January 2021.