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Fan Xulitai: Hong Kong should be a "participant" in the domestic cycle and a "facilitator" in the international cycle
Biography
Born in Shanghai in 1945, Fan moved to Hong Kong with her family in 1949. He was the first President of the Legislative Council after The Return of Hong Kong and held office for 11 years. He has been elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress of Hong Kong for four consecutive terms, and has served as a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for nearly 10 years, and has traveled between the mainland and Hong Kong politics for many years, and is a well-known pro-establishment politician in Hong Kong, and has been awarded the Golden Bauhinia Star of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Grand Bauhinia Medal, the highest honor.
Fan Has contributed a lot to the development of education in Hong Kong, working at the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute (now the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) in her early years, and was the Chairman of the Education Committee and the Chairman of the Education Commission. In 2016, she led the establishment of the Reed Education Centre to promote Hong Kong youth to recognize and understand China's cultural history and national conditions.
July 1 this year marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China and the 24th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland. On this day 24 years ago, 51-year-old Fan Xulitai, with her short, smart hair, gold-rimmed glasses and black suit, led all the provisional Legislators to take the oath of office at the celebration of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and convened the first Legislative Council meeting overnight. Since then, she has been elected president of Hong Kong's Legislative Council three times, leading the Legislative Council to operate in accordance with the new constitutional order, and after 2008, Fan XuLitai was transferred to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress until her term expired in 2018. Since then, she has put more effort into youth education, hoping to enhance the national education in Hong Kong in an all-round way through various activities and help the young generation in Hong Kong form a correct concept of the country.
For more than 20 years, Fan Xulitai has witnessed the growth of Hong Kong and has also done her best for the development of Hong Kong and the motherland. Looking back on the 24 years of "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong, she thanked the central government for its support for Hong Kong, as always, and never diminished, and sent a message to Hong Kong to make concerted efforts to seek development, seize the opportunities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and better integrate into the overall situation of national development.
Without "one country, two systems", Hong Kong's capital market would not be so active
Nanfang Daily: The Communist Party of China is the founder, leader, practitioner and defender of the cause of "one country, two systems." In your opinion, in the 24 years since the return to the motherland, what achievements have been made in the practice of "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong?
Fan Xulitai: In the 1980s, in order to solve the problems left over from history, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese Communists creatively put forward the great concept of "one country, two systems", allowing two social systems to be implemented within one country, so that Hong Kong and Macao could maintain the original capitalist system unchanged for a long time.
Over the past 24 years, Hong Kong's economy under "one country, two systems" has remained prosperous. We are still an international financial centre, with a booming trading volume on hkex and a steady stream of companies listing in Hong Kong, including many Chinese-funded companies. It can be said that without "one country, two systems", Hong Kong's capital market would not be as active as it is today.
At the same time, Hong Kong remains one of the freest regions in the world, ranking the relevant international institutions far higher than the United States in terms of freedom index. The lifestyle of Hong Kong residents remains unchanged, and we enjoy an unprecedented range of rights and freedoms under the law.
What I feel most deeply is that in the past 24 years, the central government's support for Hong Kong has continued as always and has never diminished. In particular, in recent years, under the instigation of anti-China and chaotic Hong Kong forces, illegal "Occupy Central" incidents, "storms over the amendment of the law," and "black riots" have occurred in Hong Kong, seriously trampling on the rule of law and social order, seriously undermining Hong Kong's prosperity and stability, and seriously challenging the bottom line of the "one country, two systems" principle. Fortunately, the central authorities made timely efforts to formulate and implement the Hong Kong National Security Law, thus building a solid defense line for safeguarding national security; improving the election system of the Hong Kong Sar. Hong Kong has ushered in a major turning point in the transition from chaos to governance, and there are better conditions for the practice of "one country, two systems" to be stable and far-reaching. We must cherish this hard-won stability and stability, and then we must work together to seek development.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a valuable development opportunity for Hong Kong
Nanfang Daily: In your opinion, what is the significance of the proposal of the national strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for the development and enrichment of the practice of "one country, two systems"?
Fan Xulitai: To promote the cause of "one country, two systems", we must promote Hong Kong's better integration into the overall situation of national development. For Hong Kong, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a valuable development opportunity. The Greater Bay Area is one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and the strongest economic vitality in China. The nine cities in Guangdong develop together with Hong Kong and Macao and complement each other in order to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. We must seize this opportunity and take the initiative to integrate into the overall situation of national development.
More than 40 years ago, in the early days of reform and opening up, many Hong Kong businessmen chose to invest in Guangdong and set up factories. They valued the advantages of raw materials, land and labor in Guangdong, so they took the capital, technology and experience to develop together and achieve success. This truth still applies today, and it will continue to be true in the future. A person fights alone, and the space for development is limited. How to gain a place in international competition? How to ensure that the product has a market? The answer is to find the strengths of neighboring regions and make up for Hong Kong's shortcomings. The reason is that the combination is won, and the point is lost, and the reason is actually very simple.
Nanfang Daily: How should Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao further deepen cooperation? How should Hong Kong grasp the development opportunities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area?
Fan Xulitai: Unlike the early days of reform and opening up, which mainly focused on manufacturing, in recent years, some new trends have emerged in cooperation between Hong Kong and the mainland, and more are moving towards high-tech industries and high-end service industries. Hong Kong has advantages in basic scientific research, and many universities have many recent and professional research results, but due to the shortage of land, it is difficult to build factories and production lines in Hong Kong, and these research results cannot be quickly transformed into products. If we strengthen cooperation with Guangdong, we can build a complete industrial chain and realize the transformation of research results.
In addition, Hong Kong's international environment and cultural atmosphere of chinese and Western fusion help to attract overseas talents to Hong Kong. We should continue to attract talents from all over the world, so that Hong Kong can become a "talent capital" and gather talents for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The 14th Five-Year Plan also provides a clear development path for Hong Kong, including supporting Hong Kong to build an international innovation and technology center, an international law and dispute resolution service center in the Asia-Pacific region, a regional intellectual property trade center, and the development of a Chinese and foreign cultural and artistic exchange center. Hong Kong must cherish the policy support given by the state, seize the opportunity, seize the development space, actively become a "participant" in the domestic cycle and the "facilitator" of the international cycle, and work together to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into a first-class bay area and a world-class city cluster with vitality and international competitiveness.
The younger generation in Hong Kong should know the real situation in the country
Nanfang Daily: You have been involved in Hong Kong's education affairs for many years, how should you guide the young generation in Hong Kong to enhance their national concept and enhance their national identity in the future?
Fan Xulitai: In general, we need to improve the national education in Hong Kong in an all-round way. It is necessary to strengthen students' understanding of national history, Chinese culture, and national conditions, deepen education in the Constitution and the Basic Law, and cultivate students' national concept and national security awareness.
Only when there is understanding can there be feelings; only with feelings will we be willing to contribute to the country and work hard for the country. We need to let the young generation in Hong Kong realize that they are Chinese and truly understand the real situation of the country.
There are many ways to improve national education. For example, in some kindergartens in Hong Kong, the activity of "greeting the national flag and playing the national anthem" will be held. This is not a special practice, and it will be done in kindergartens in the United States. I believe that if you learn to raise the national flag and sing the national anthem from an early age, it will be more conducive to forming a national identity and enhancing the sense of belonging to the country.
The younger generation in Hong Kong understands the real situation of the country, not only by the media or the Internet, but by personally understanding it. In particular, we must do a good job in the training of teachers, because the words and deeds of teachers will have a very important impact on students.
Therefore, we should provide Hong Kong teachers, young people and members of the community with information on the Constitution, the Basic Law, the Hong Kong National Security Law, China's history, culture and national conditions through various activities, including symposia, teacher training courses, exchange groups, etc.
Upgrading Hong Kong's national education is a relatively long process. From the next school year, the HKSAR Government will promote national security education in schools. In the private sector, we will continue to enable more young people in Hong Kong to establish a correct understanding of the country through various activities, which is also the key to ensuring that "one country, two systems" can be implemented steadily and far-reaching.
The story of the Chinese Communist Party has been rarely told in Hong Kong in the past. Taking advantage of the fact that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, we hope to hold lectures to tell the story of the Communist Party of China, including how many difficulties the Communist Party of China faced before the founding of New China, how to cope with challenges, how to win the support of the people, and how to lead China to carry out modernization explorations.
Nanfang Daily: Hong Kong youth groups are the builders and one of the main beneficiaries of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. For young people in Hong Kong, how to grasp the great opportunities of the times and better achieve personal development?
Fan Xulitai: Young people in Hong Kong need to have a curious heart, a spirit of willingness to struggle and struggle, and a healthy body. If I were young now, back in my 20s, the first thing I would want to do would be to do everything I could to search for information about the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
I have seen that the HKSAR Government recently launched the Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme to encourage enterprises with operations in Hong Kong and mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area to hire HKU graduates to work in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area. In addition, mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area have also introduced some measures to help young people from Hong Kong and Macao start local businesses. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have the same roots and origins in culture, and it should be relatively easy for young people from Hong Kong and Macao to develop in Guangdong. Coupled with the support of the policies of the three places, there are opportunities everywhere for young people in Hong Kong. Once you have a certain degree of understanding of the Greater Bay Area, you can try it when you encounter an opportunity. Sometimes, it is not necessary to succeed on the first attempt, but as long as you do it wholeheartedly, constantly improve yourself, and are not afraid of failure, you will definitely have a chance to succeed.
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