Fok Kai-gang, Vice President of the Hong Kong Sports Association and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, accompanied by Li Jing, head coach of the Hong Kong Women's Table Tennis Team, Tsang Chi-wai, General Manager of TVB, and others today (2 February) went to the Government Headquarters to register for the "Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publishing Industry". Huo Qigang said that although he regretted that he did not have to run for the election last year, the cooperation with the industry this year and the work of promoting the development of the industry have not stopped, and he hopes that the industry can cast a vote of trust.
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Huo Qigang pointed out in an interview with the media that in the face of the epidemic and the "black riot" in Hong Kong last year, as well as the illegal primary election of the raiders, the society was in deep trouble, and when running for election, it was more with the mentality of safeguarding Hong Kong's core values and resisting the "black riot". However, this year," the situation has changed a lot, after the central government improved the election system, the society has reduced internal friction, the efficiency of the Legislative Council has been greatly improved, and the Legislative Council election is no longer a contest of positions, but a contest of administrative philosophy and work ability. His original intention in running for election was to use his status and position as a member of the Legislative Council to promote the reform of Hong Kong's sports industry in the original duty of supervising the SAR government and deliberating laws, leading the Greater Bay Area collaboration, and helping Hong Kong's sports community integrate into the overall situation of national development.
With the campaign slogan of "Connecting, Leapfrogging and Creating", Huo Qigang "hopes to connect the 18 districts of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong and the Mainland, and even Hong Kong and the world, so that culture and sports can achieve 'Cultural and Sports +', and cooperate with different sectors, such as technology, finance, industry, tourism, to create more possibilities and opportunities". Huo Qigang listed three priorities for the future: developing Hong Kong into a Cultural Exchange art center between China and foreign countries in accordance with the 14th Five-Year Plan of the Central Committee; integrating into the Greater Bay Area to host the 2025 Greater Bay Area National Games in an innovative way to promote the Greater Bay Area Sports League; and developing the cultural and sports industry, which will not only enable the industry to rely on government funding alone, but also promote the government to have new measures.
In her earlier policy address, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor proposed the establishment of the Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism to promote Hong Kong's development into a Centre for Cultural and Artistic Exchanges between China and foreign countries. Huo Qigang pointed out that in order to continue to promote the development of sports in Hong Kong, it is necessary to start with the "three modernizations" policy, including the eliteization, popularization and grandeurization of sports, and to abandon the previous attitude of viewing sports development with entertainment and recreation, to discuss with different stakeholders in society and formulate more proactive, more active and more advanced policies.
"I very much hope that in the future, the Sino-Foreign Cultural and Art Exchange Center can include sports." He hoped that the next HKSAR Government would carefully study the ecology of the industry, the expectations of various stakeholders and the needs of practitioners, clarify the functions of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Board, plan the events to be held in the future, explore how to serve the Greater Bay Area, integrate into the overall situation of national development, and ultimately lead Hong Kong's sports industry to the world. He revealed that the focus of the next few months will be to visit various sports federations, regional sports clubs, emerging sports organizations, schools, etc., conduct questionnaire surveys, and learn more about the industry's views on the future development of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
In addition, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will host the 2025 National Games, and Huo Qigang believes that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area needs to hold large-scale activities to unite the strength of cities, and the National Games is an excellent opportunity. He pointed out that the National Games represent a national strategy for coordinated regional development, which can accelerate the integrated development of cities in the Greater Bay Area in terms of transportation connection, medical services, sponsorship negotiations, and broadcast events.
Also registered for the Legislative Council's "Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publishing Sector" functional sector is So Wai-leung. Huo Qigang said that under the new election system, more people with strong hearts and minds can participate in the election, welcome more capable people to run, and create competition, and said that he knows Su Huiliang, has cooperated with him, and hopes that there will be more opportunities for exchanges in the future, in addition to competition, you can also learn from each other.
The re-election of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was held on 19 December. On October 30, the nomination period began. As one of the three major organs of the Legislative Council, the importance of the election for the new term of office of the Legislative Council is beyond words, and after hong Kong implemented the principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong" and improved the election system, this election has attracted great attention from the outside world.
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