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Written by: Hu Jiaxin
2019-11-29 18:35
Last updated: 2019-11-29 18:35The government withdrew funding for university engineering projects three times in two weeks, including funding for additional teaching and research buildings for medical training and expansion of libraries at the University of Science and Technology, involving a total of 1.759 billion yuan.
PolyU President Teng Kam Kwong said in response to media questions today (29) that the additional teaching building is to train rehabilitation and vision talents, and the elderly society in Hong Kong is in great need. It appeals to all sectors of society to support funding as soon as possible without causing too much delay. He went on to point out that the recent incident at PolyU was due to the political turmoil in the society, which made PolyU a great victim, and hoped that the outside world would continue to support the development of the university.
PolyU President Teng Jinguang (pictured) and the management visited the campus today to inspect the environment. (Photo by Gao Zhongming)
The anti-revision storm continued for more than 5 months, and the battlefield of the demonstration conflict spread from the street to the university campus. The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council was scheduled to review the PolyU's expansion project on the 15th of this month. The project was originally planned to build a teaching and administrative building to provide additional teaching and research facilities for students from the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and School of Optometry to support the government The additional medical training places involved an appropriation of about 1.418 billion yuan. However, the government temporarily took up the project on the grounds that "more time is needed for explanation".
As of last Tuesday (19th), the government wrote to the Legislative Council Public Works Group to draw up the 340 million yuan expansion of the PolyU Library project that was originally listed on the agenda, pointing out that the recent incident occurred, and PolyU needed to review the project time. table. On Tuesday (26th), the government wrote to the Finance Committee, stating that the two medical teaching facilities engineering projects of CUHK and HKU were temporarily withdrawn, totaling more than 250 million yuan. The reason is that "Members of Parliament" expressed concern about the two projects. "So the funding was withdrawn.
"Hong Kong 01" made further enquiries to the University of Hong Kong and the University of China, respectively, and has yet to reply.
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