Hong Kong‘s population plummeted last year, with nearly 50,000 people leaving the city to migrate to other countries, worse than the migration wave triggered by the June 4 incident. The picture shows the Hong Kong airport.
Since the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, an unprecedented wave of immigration has broken out in Hong Kong, and according to statistics, the population of Hong Kong plummeted last year, about 50,000 people left Hong Kong to emigrate to other countries, more serious than the June 4 incident triggered by the migration wave.
Comprehensive media reports, Hong Kong official statistics show that the end of 2020 in Hong Kong 7,474,200 people, a decrease of 46,500 people than the end of the previous year, including negative population growth of 6,700 people, net migration accounted for 39,800 people.
The historical records of the survey of the French broadcaster, in the 35 years of history available, the most serious migration wave was the net migration of 23,700 people in 1990, retroactively caused by the June 4 incident in 1989, the chilling effect caused Hong Kong people to go to other countries to avoid disaster. Then it was this Time, after the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, Hong Kong people again exploded migration wave, the number of people, more than the number of immigrants on June 4, more than 16,100 people, and at present, the migration wave has not stopped.
Radio Free Asia reported on December 17 last year that many middle-class people in Hong Kong are planning to emigrate in 2019 because they see no hope in the political situation in Hong Kong, and they have made preparations for emigration quickly after the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, including renewing their British National (Overseas) Passport (BNO) and applying for an offshore account.
The Hong Kong economist Luo Jiacong has pointed out that most of the Hong Kong people who left are middle and lower middle class, “the poorest and the richest can not leave”, such as Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing and other people, or the descendants of property developers, most of them are NPC and CPPCC, have a lot of land.
Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion Deputy Chief Executive Zhong Jianhua said in his analysis, this time the mentality of Hong Kong people to emigrate and 1997 immigration wave is obviously different, when it was Hong Kong people have no confidence in the return to the mainland, but at that time, Hong Kong was still in the democratization stage, so most Hong Kong people still hold a wait-and-see attitude.
Nowadays, Hong Kong people are leaving, partly because they don’t want their children to be brainwashed, but also many out of fear of the political situation, and Hong Kong people already feel that there is immediate danger. Therefore, he believes that it is not unreasonable to see this wave of migration as a “wave of refugee”, because some Hong Kong people are indeed becoming foreign refugees because of the political situation in Hong Kong.
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