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Written by: Lin Jian
2020-04-07 15:49
Date of last update: 2020-04-07 15:49The Chief Executive ’s Office document disclosed earlier that Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue ’s salary budget for 2020-2021 was 5.21 million, an increase of 120,000 from last year ’s 5.09 million. This represents an average monthly salary increase of 10,000. Discuss.
The three honorary chairman of the Liberal Party, Tian Beijun, Zhou Liangshuyi and Liu Jianyi, together with party leader Zhong Guobin wrote to Lin Zheng today (7th), expressing shock and disappointment at the government accountability team ’s salary increase according to the original mechanism, and asking the SAR government Reject the proposal for a salary increase by the accountability team and take the initiative to propose a voluntary salary reduction plan to truly "walk with the people".
Tian Beijun, Zhou Liangshuyi, Liu Jianyi, Zhong Guobin wrote to Lin Zheng, requesting rejection of the salary increase proposal, and proposed a voluntary salary reduction plan. (Picture of Tian Beijun fb page)
The four said in the letter that Hong Kong is in a difficult time. Now that the new coronavirus is rampant across the world, Hong Kong cannot be alone. For the reasons of epidemic prevention, all walks of life in Hong Kong are deeply affected, causing a depression in all industries. Unemployment rate has increased significantly. They pointed out that looking around the world, most government and business leaders choose to voluntarily reduce their salaries and stand on the front line with their citizens. In particular, the salaries of government officials belong to public funds. At this moment, government officials still choose to continue to raise their salaries under the high salary that is much higher than that of leaders in Europe and America, which is considered an extremely inappropriate measure.
The four people hope that when society is facing an unprecedented disaster, citizens are facing major challenges in terms of personal physical and mental health and finances. All sectors of society are expecting government officials to voluntarily reduce their wages to show that the government and the people are united and overcome the difficulties. Therefore, they asked the SAR Government to reject the proposal for a salary increase by the accountability team and take the initiative to propose a voluntary salary reduction plan so as to truly "walk with the people".
Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue. (Photo by Gao Zhongming)
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