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In the face of near-unanimous rebuke, the Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Tse Chin-wan, finally announced that the refuse levy would be postponed until August 1. The current postponement is not only a concession by the Government after listening to the views of the community, but also a long-awaited failure in the implementation of government policies, and how to review from this failure and achieve political harmony in the future is the lesson that the Environment and Ecology Bureau and the Government as a whole should learn.
Since the beginning of my writing, I have always emphasized that the government of John Lee is the strongest in terms of public relations, explanation, and response to public demands. Compared with the past, which responded passively to a large number of civil accusations or appeals, the SAR government led by Lee Jiachao has taken the initiative to attack, and the results have been good. However, when it comes to the garbage levy, there is still room for improvement in the EPA's ability to explain the levy.
The main reason, of course, is that directorate officials are not well prepared to attend the interview to explain, resulting in a large number of "unacceptable" sentences being adopted by the media as the focus of propaganda.
At this point, I believe that a few sentences will immediately come to the reader's mind, such as Environmental Protection Director Xu Haoguang's "If you don't know, when is it unclear", Assistant Director of Environmental Protection Hu Jinxin said on the spot, "You can saw the ditch and put it into the designated bag, I know that Hong Kong people are so smart, and they use the method while using it flatly, and it seems to be expensive to drag 11 mosquitoes on the ground and paste 11 mosquitoes on the ground." Xie Zhanhuan was amplified by the media not by the bottom of the package, but only by the end of the hand.
Looking at the above sentences alone, it is not an exaggeration to say that the government's explanation of the implementation of the garbage levy is directly described as catastrophic, and this kind of catastrophic sentence will directly attract the attention of the public, and directly reassure the inadequacy of the policy and the dissatisfaction of the public. Intentional people deliberately amplify such sentences, which also makes it difficult for government policies to be implemented.
Whenever you look at such "explosive" sentences, you will find that they are far from the original intention of the government. For example, in the case of "bottom and tail", Tse originally meant that if the management company assisted the housing estate to "pack the bottom", from his point of view, the management company would use big bags to pack all the rubbish and the tenants would not need to pay additional fees for the rubbish. It is only when most of the households are collecting garbage and there are illegal fish that slip through the net, or accidentally rotten garbage bags, that the management company needs to "hold the tail".
Even the most explosive remarks, Hu Jinxin's words reflect reality. If what Hu said at the beginning stops, it only means that it is illegal for garbage to overflow garbage bags, so the pallet can only be classified as large garbage, and an additional label of 11 yuan needs to be purchased. Even if we don't talk about the subsequent sawing of the mopsticks, Hong Kong people will use every means to "separate" the mops to fit the size of the garbage bags.
With the vast number of public interviews to be made by the Directors of Bureaux and the Directors of Directors, especially on the eve of the launch of major policies, do the press officers and public relations departments behind the Government need to imagine all the potential problems that will be encountered? If there is no such action, it is no wonder why the Hong Kong government is often in a public relations crisis.
However, the Government really needs to be more vigilant in explaining the refuse levy, and when I was collecting information, I found that some Legislative Council Members had given explanations to the media, but there were discrepancies between the explanations and the statements of the Secretaries, especially in the disposal of garbage spilled from garbage bags. If even the Legislative Council members have different understandings from the Government, it is difficult to imagine the effect of their explanations.
Text: Liu Xin