The leaders of Hong Kong's years of study can not shirk the blame

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Written by: Commentary Editing Room

2021-05-18 12:00

Last update date: 2021-05-18 12:00

Liang Zhenying, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former chief executive, recently accepted a media interview and stated that Hong Kong "has no boats after Suzhou" and must race against time to formulate long-term development strategies and build houses to improve people's livelihood.

Many people also remember that when President Xi Jinping came to Hong Kong in 2017 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the reunification, he said that "there will be no boats after Suzhou", encouraging Hong Kong, seizing opportunities, and focusing on construction and development.

Leung Chun-ying also recently quoted this saying to point out that Hong Kong people must seize the golden opportunity for the development of the Greater Bay Area.

Official leaders should reflect on their responsibilities

The idea of ​​seizing the opportunity is true, but putting it back into Hong Kong’s unique context, it’s not just that.

If we want to "concentrate our main energies on construction and development," then we must first ask, where are our energies now?

There is no doubt that it was spent on unnecessary political struggles.

Many people put the blame on the pan-democrats in the Legislative Council.

Rab is certainly a wrong approach. It is exploiting loopholes in the procedure and unnecessarily hindering the efficiency of governance.

But it is wrong to put all the blame on Rab.

Many livelihood policies can actually be supported by cross-spectrum legislators, but officials are not determined to break vested interests and follow past policies.

Furthermore, because the government cannot achieve good governance and even Rab has the tacit approval of many citizens, this should have embarrassed officials even more.

The previous government is not without responsibility

Taking housing as an example, Leung Chun-ying said in an interview that if the supply of public housing is insufficient, the public will continue to live in sub-federal housing, and recalled the tragedy of the 2011 Fa Yuen Street stall fire.

However, the fire at Fa Yuen Street was already ten years ago, and Liang Zhenying was not the chief executive at that time.

Why has the housing problem still not been resolved after ten years have passed, after five years of the Leung Chun-ying government and four years of Carrie Lam’s administration?

According to the latest data released by the Housing Authority last week, the average waiting time for general public housing applicants and one-person applicants for public housing has increased to 5.8 years and 3.6 years respectively.

Leung Chun-ying took the "Rose Garden Project" as an example and pointed out that large-scale infrastructure projects such as the airport, the Tsing Ma Bridge, and the Western Harbour Crossing took only a short period of eight years. The changes are actually man-made.

But the Chief Executive's term of office is five years, and there is absolutely a lot to do. Why is our public medical system still overloaded?

The supply of public housing is not up to standard?

The private housing market is out of control?

It's hard to find a home for the disabled and the elderly?

Blue-collar workers still do not enjoy the so-called "bank holiday"?

All wage earners do not have standard working hours, unemployment and retirement protection?

Is it that five years is not enough, or is it that politicians actually don't understand the principle of "no boats after Suzhou"?

With the current government’s term coming to its final year, and Liang Zhenying recently put forward a number of policy proposals, some people speculated that he might be interested in running for the election.

Anyone who meets the requirements stipulated in the Basic Law, whether the current or former chief executive or others, is certainly eligible to stand for election as the chief executive.

But the political leaders that Hong Kong needs today must take responsibility and lead everyone to develop the future through experience.

If you continue to refuse to face the problem head-on and put the responsibility on others forever, then it will be difficult for anyone, even if they have the intention, to lead Hong Kong out of the predicament.

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