The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, in an interview with Shenzhen TV, criticized in a high profile that in recent years there is a culture of exclusion of mainland China and mainland Chinese in Hong Kong, and that Hong Kong people “overemphasize local culture”, and stated that “through education and time” to reverse it. He also said that Hong Kong people “overemphasize the local culture”, and said that “through education and time” to change the situation.
In the interview, Lam Cheng said that he did not mind that Hong Kong’s GDP was surpassed by Shenzhen and hoped that Hong Kong and Shenzhen would have a new platform for cooperation. Lam Cheng believes that Hong Kong’s economy to recover from the epidemic, “inseparable from the integration with the Chinese mainland”, the next phase of Hong Kong’s goal to become an international science and technology center: “I do not mind that people always say that Shenzhen’s GDP has climbed to the head of Hong Kong, because Shenzhen’s population and land is richer than us. But in the future, I hope that the central government will continue to give the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region some pre-established, breakthrough, innovative policies, so that the cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen can be carried out in a new platform together.” She said the only place with “such good economic growth” at the time of the epidemic “is our country”.
She also believes that the land issue is a major constraint for Hong Kong, and that the political environment in Hong Kong is more complicated than that in Shenzhen. She said that every time she goes to Shenzhen, the city leaders are very concerned and sympathetic to her, because in mainland China they will do what they say they will do.
During the interview, she also believed that Hong Kong has been over-emphasizing local culture in recent years, and that a small number of people are rejecting mainland China: “There is a trend in Hong Kong in recent years that over-emphasizes local culture, and some people are rejecting mainlanders, but I think they are all a small number of people. However, these behaviors are often expanded through social media or reports, which makes mainlanders feel a bit uncomfortable ……. I believe they can be reversed slowly with time”. She stated that the government will never reduce the opportunities for young people to go to mainland China for internship, exchange, work or even start their own business because a small group of people have the mentality of rejecting mainland China.
In addition, Mrs. Lam also mentioned in the interview that allowing registered voters from Hong Kong in the mainland to vote is “a social demand. She said that in addition to the integration of Hong Kong into the development of mainland China, many government policies also encourage Hong Kong people to live in mainland China for a period of time or study: “How can this not be done in an election to vote for Hong Kong people to vote? This is a real problem.” She stressed that after the epidemic, no one could have predicted it, even if it was close. She stressed that after the epidemic, no one could have predicted that it would be close at hand, “but it’s really not coming back (to vote in Hong Kong), it needs to be explored.”
Democratic Party legislator David Wu pointed out that the entire visit of Lam Cheng is to “shine the shoes” of Beijing, wanting Hong Kong to keep up with the development of the mainland and play a supporting role in the development of the mainland, ignoring, or even personally destroying the unique value of Hong Kong could have international vision and talent to the mainland. He pointed out that Lin Zheng knows he is hated by many Hong Kong people, “canal in Hong Kong to find no value, think Hong Kong worthless, so the canal can only look north, know that Xi Jinping went to Shenzhen, the more low-profile.”
According to early last year’s data, Shenzhen’s total economic output ranks among the top three in China, surpassing Hong Kong’s GDP for the first time, but because Shenzhen’s population is 40 percent larger than Hong Kong’s, per capita GDP, Hong Kong is still left behind Shenzhen and Shanghai, Beijing; with the average wage of residents and university students starting salary point, is also much higher than the three major cities in mainland China.
According to the data of Hong Kong Statistics Department early last year, Hong Kong’s GDP in 2018 was HK$2.85 trillion, with per capita GDP over HK$365,000, equivalent to about 321,000 yuan (RMB); Shenzhen’s GDP was about HK$287 million, with per capita GDP about 197,000 yuan, higher than Beijing’s 140,000 yuan and Shanghai’s 135,000 yuan. 2017 median income of Hong Kong was 16,800 HKD, about 14,200 RMB. During the same period, the median wage in Beijing was about $8,400, in Shenzhen about $8,300, and in Shanghai about $7,100.
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