China’s late leader Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution initiated urban intellectual youth to the countryside to receive re-education of peasants “go to the mountains and go to the countryside” between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, the Secretary for the Civil Service Nie Dequan in the Legislative Council revealed that is discussing with the Chinese mainland departments to strengthen the training of Hong Kong civil servants, including allowing civil servants to go to the mainland units “Hanging” for a period of time in order to observe and learn, and agreed with Legislative Council member Chiang Lai-wan’s proposal to send officials to “rural counties” internship.
According to the World Bank’s 2019 Global Governance Indicators, among the six major areas of governance, Hong Kong is slightly behind China in “political stability and elimination of violence,” except for “voice and accountability,” “government effectiveness,” and “regulatory quality. Hong Kong scores far behind China in the six major areas of governance, except for “political stability and elimination of violence,” in which Hong Kong is slightly behind China, and “voice and accountability,” “government effectiveness,” “quality of regulation,” “rule of law,” and “corruption control. However, after Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s earlier statement to “improve” civil service training, the authorities have indicated that they will strengthen Hong Kong civil servants to study in China. Secretary for the Civil Service Nip Tak-kuen said yesterday (12) afternoon to the Legislative Council Finance Committee to explain the expenditure on civil service training programs in the budget, senior and director-level staff to attend training in mainland China, the quota has increased to 1,000, mainly to the National School of Administration, Peking University, Tsinghua University and other nine Chinese institutions, but also exchanges, study tours and research activities, the future hope to further In the future, we hope to further increase the number of places, and let the “grassroots less” civil servants to participate. He revealed that discussions are underway with the Chinese authorities to give civil servants the opportunity to “post” in mainland units for a period of time to see how they operate, which is believed to be of great help to their work, and discussions are currently underway with the mainland.
The DAB member Chiang Lai-wan, who raised the issue, then followed up, saying she expected future officials to fight for internships in China, “to drop in the county, the township,” I believe it will be very beneficial to officials, and will be more understanding of grassroots issues. Nie Dequan responded: “agree agree”.
Nip also said that in the future, he hopes to introduce a requirement that civil servants must complete a China training course within a three-year probationary period before they can be employed on a permanent basis.
In its written response, the Civil Service Bureau said that in order to further promote cooperation between Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, the authorities will expand the “Civil Service Exchange Programme” jointly organized by Hong Kong and China to include nine cities in the Greater Bay Area, and enrich the content of study tours in the region, the relevant expenditure for the current fiscal year is about 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
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