The Hong Kong Youth Performance Art and Development Association was registered in 2013 and is a registered society by the Hong Kong Special Administrative RegionGovernment. The association has always been committed to promoting Hong Kong youth performing arts, international exchangeopportunities and more internationally recognized values through high-level music and art competitions and activities. From 2020, HKYPAF has joined the Alink-Argerich Foundation (AAF) as an international music competition. In 2021, it successfully won the World Competition Rating Directory and was evaluated as the highest four-star top competition in RANK B. (The event will be held in different countries from the preliminary round to the finals, including events involving two or more countries).