After China tightened its control over Hong Kong, a survey found that 65% of Hong Kong people have no confidence in Hong Kong’s future political environment, and many of them even plan to emigrate, but those who plan to emigrate are not just “pro-democracy” supporters. Among them, 14% said they have plans to emigrate, 16 percentage points less than the “democratic” supporters, mainly because they are worried that Hong Kong is no longer free. Scholars responsible for the study said that the data reflects that the pro-establishment camp is also “fragmented”, if the Hong Kong government does not pay attention, will face the difficult situation of governance.
The Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion yesterday (19) afternoon released the results of the survey on the influx of immigrants in Hong Kong, found that 95% of “democratic” supporters are not confident in the future political environment of Hong Kong, while “non-democratic” supporters are 43% not confident, than those who have confidence also On the whole, 65% of Hong Kong people have no confidence in the future political environment of Hong Kong, while only 25% have confidence in the future. Besides, only more than half of the respondents, 52%, were confident in Hong Kong’s economic future, while only 24% claimed to be confident.
Against this background, the survey showed that 69% of the respondents said they had no plan to leave Hong Kong permanently, but 42% of them said they would try to leave if the situation became unacceptable, and 27% would not leave under any circumstances.
In addition, 21% of those who said they had plans to leave Hong Kong permanently, and 2% have already left permanently. It is worth noting that, if classified by political orientation, 30% of the “pro-democracy” supporters said they plan to leave Hong Kong permanently, and 14% of the “non-democracy” supporters did the same.
When asked what aspect of Hong Kong has become worse to motivate them to leave Hong Kong permanently, about 38% of the respondents chose personal freedom, more than double of those who said they would leave because of “Hong Kong’s politics” (17%), followed by 11% each for personal living standard and Family‘s future, and only 6% for Hong Kong’s economic prospect.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Social Sciences guest lecturer Yip Kwok Ho said that 14% of the “non-democratic” supporters have plans to emigrate, which is a bad sign. He pointed out that the brain drain will affect the economic development, Hong Kong needs more high quality and this Home people, but unfortunately the Hong Kong government does not seem to pay much attention. The honorary director of the polling project, Mr. Wong Wai Kwok, pointed out that the data reflected that the “non-democratic camp” or the pro-establishment camp might also be “fragmented” and urged the Hong Kong government to pay attention to the influx of immigrants, otherwise it would face difficulties in governance.
The pro-Beijing people have always said that “stay on the island but not on the people”, but Luo Jiacong, who was the chief analyst of a Chinese bank, said in an online interview recently that some people in the Beijing government think that they can send people from mainland China to Hong Kong to supplement the emigration of Hong Kong people, but the problem is that when they see how China treats Hong Kong, capable Chinese people will not come, and those who are willing to come will not come. But the problem is that when China treats Hong Kong in such a way, Chinese people who have the ability will not come to Hong Kong, and those who are willing to come to Hong Kong will be worse and worse. He pointed out from his own experience in teaching at CUHK that the quality of those who came to Hong Kong at the beginning was quite high, but the quality of those who came afterwards was deteriorating.
The poll conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion Research (HKIPR) was conducted online from March 15 to 18, with about 5,700 respondents.
POP interviewed nearly 5,700 people between March 15 and 18 by online survey, and found that 65% of the respondents had no confidence in Hong Kong’s future political environment, while 25% had confidence. Among non-democracy supporters, those with confidence and those without confidence were similar, accounting for 40% and 43% respectively, while 95% of the self-proclaimed democracy supporters said they had no confidence and 5% said they had confidence.
When asked how confident they were in the future of Hong Kong people’s personal freedom, 64% said they were not confident, 29% said they were confident. 93% of the pro-democracy supporters said they were not confident, 5% said they were confident. The survey also revealed that 52% of the respondents were not confident in Hong Kong’s economic outlook, while 24% were confident.
The guest lecturer of CUHK’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Yip Kwok-ho, who attended the conference, said that the respondents’ confidence in Hong Kong’s future political environment is low, and they attach more importance to core values such as freedom, and are more pessimistic overall, especially among supporters of the democratic camp, but whether it is the main reason for emigration still needs further analysis.
He stressed that the proportion of the survey results intend to leave Hong Kong is also worth noting, the survey reflects that 21% of respondents have plans to emigrate, even among non-democratic supporters, there are also 14% have plans to emigrate, which is a bad signal. Because the brain drain will affect the economic development, Hong Kong needs more high quality, and this is the home of the people, but the government seems to pay less attention.
He also said that Hong Kong people are worried about the different economic systems in the two places is one of the main reasons for the influx of immigrants in 1997, but the relative stability of Hong Kong before 2003, the Central Government also intervened less, so many Hong Kong people back to the flow. But from this survey, the new wave of immigrants or different from the previous wave, because the political and speech space has been different, Hong Kong people may not return after immigration
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