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On the morning of 29 April 2022, Lee Ka-chiu, candidate for the sixth term of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, announced his election platform. It covers four major areas – (1) strengthening the government's governance capacity, (2) speeding up, improving and increasing the supply of land and housing, (3) enhancing Hong Kong's competitiveness, and (4) caring for the community and youth.
In view of the shortcomings of the SAR's governance, Li Jiachao put forward a number of ideas to strengthen the government's governance capabilities. Among them, the establishment of regional service and care teams in 18 districts, the establishment of the "emergency mobilization mechanism" and the mobilization of civil servants to respond to the crisis are obviously lessons learned from Hong Kong's response to the fifth wave of the epidemic.
For the land and housing issues that Hong Kong society is most concerned about, Li Jiachao has put forward a series of ideas for speeding up, improving efficiency and quantity of land and housing supply. Specifically, the first is that the government has strengthened overall planning and established a land supply coordination group and a housing supply coordination group. The second is to comprehensively review the planning of Lantau Island and the northern metropolitan area tomorrow, and develop land in multiple ways and on a large scale. The third is to take the lead in infrastructure construction and examine the development of railways. The fourth is to streamline the procedures for land and housing development, and multi-pronged land and housing. The fifth is to formulate a plan for public housing to go upstairs in advance, hoping to shorten the time for public housing to go upstairs by about 1 year. The sixth is to adopt electronic and containerized housing construction to speed up the construction time.
Just four days before Lee Ka-chiu announced his election platform, on April 25, Hong Kong media reported that the waiting time for public housing had risen to six years, the longest record since 1999. There are four families waiting for public housing for more than 5 years, and the younger brother who has gone to college still sleeps in the lattice bed with his sister. A family of three in a subdivided household was forced to sleep in the same bunk bed. With the COVID-19 pandemic, tenants in subdivided housing have suffered the brunt of the attack. According to a poll, 770% of respondents living in subdivided houses were infected with COVID-19 at the same time as their families, of which more than 40% were infected by family members living together; the proportion of the whole family was nearly 55%, and more than 80% of family members were infected.
Lee Ka-chiu's election platform brings hope to Hong Kong's grassroots residents who are struggling to lose public housing.
Great oaks from little acorns grow..
Hong Kong has been suffering from the recurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years, in particular, the fifth wave of the epidemic has infected millions of Hong Kong residents with the new crown virus, nearly 10,000 deaths, and the economic recovery has reversed.
On 28 April, experts from the Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University announced the results of the mathematical model calculations. The current government of the HKSAR has implemented phased relaxation of social restrictions, and the sixth wave of the new crown epidemic will occur, when there will be 10,000 new confirmed new coronavirus cases in Hong Kong in a single day, and a total of 300,000 new coronavirus patients will be added.
The epidemic in Hong Kong for more than two years has proved that experts from several universities in Hong Kong have made reliable calculations about the epidemic in Hong Kong based on the models.
After Li Jiachao is elected as the sixth chief executive, in the next month or so, he will not only reorganize the current government structure and organize a new government governance team, but also assist the current chief executive and his governance team to prevent or at least try their best to contain the sixth wave of the epidemic.
Hong Kong is a highly open economy. At present, the recovery of the economy and the medium- and long-term development of the economy require Hong Kong to resume normal personnel exchanges with the mainland and the international community as soon as possible, which is commonly known as "customs clearance", of which "customs clearance" with the mainland is the priority. Hong Kong must establish systems and mechanisms to effectively implement the national general policy of "dynamic zeroing" in the fight against the new crown epidemic. This is a necessary condition for Hong Kong and the mainland to resume "customs clearance".
If the next GOVERNMENT of the SAR can enable Hong Kong to resume "customs clearance" with the mainland as soon as possible, Hong Kong will have a good start in "governing and rejuvenating."
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