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"Enthusiastic Parents, Seek Nanny": Hong Kong Government's Sports Policy

2021-08-10T10:12:33.702Z


The dust of the Tokyo Olympics has settled, and Hong Kong has set an unprecedented record for the Hong Kong Olympic delegation with one gold, two silvers and three bronzes. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced on Tuesday (10th) five new measures to support sports, including competition


The dust of the Tokyo Olympics has settled, and Hong Kong has set an unprecedented record for the Hong Kong Olympic delegation with one gold, two silvers and three bronzes.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced on Tuesday (10th) five new measures to support sports, including striving to complete the completion of the new building of the College of Physical Education as early as 2024, and cooperating with the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to establish a 300 million athlete "Ability Enhancement Fund" Improve sports medical and scientific research, require universities to provide more flexible learning arrangements for athletes, and study how to implement policy goals such as "industrialization" and "specialization".

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor emphasized that the government's support for sports "is not a three-minute enthusiasm," and pointed out that a lot of work began when she became the Permanent Secretary of the Home Affairs Bureau in 2006.


After the Olympic boom, the government should take advantage of the momentum to strengthen the promotion of sports development in Hong Kong. Of course, it deserves support.

In the past few years, the SAR government has indeed invested a lot of resources to promote the development and quality of sports in Hong Kong.

However, the question has never been whether the government is willing to devote resources to sports development.

In the development of sports, the Hong Kong government has always been "enthusiastic parents", willing to spend huge sums of money to train Hong Kong athletes for all-around development; but the problem is that if all the huge sums of money are only operated and operated by "seeking a nanny", no matter how much Can "tuition fees" be used properly?

"Enthusiastic Parents": Funds are responsive

At present, the development of sports policies in Hong Kong has always followed the new public management model developed in the 1980s.

That is, the government provides subsidies or funds to different sports clubs and other organizations; and sets work goals or organizational missions to develop related projects.

With government funding, various sports clubs and the Hong Kong Sports Institute, which established in 2004 to train elite athletes, are responsible for the preparation and promotion of their specialized sports development.

Therefore, since 1997, the Chief Executive and the Secretary for Finance will mention the funding arrangements to support the development of sports in Hong Kong in their policy addresses and budgets.

According to figures, the government's regular support for sports development in 2019-20 is as high as 5.8 billion yuan.

In addition to related recurrent expenditures, the government has set up a number of funds to support the development of athletes.

Among them, the establishment of a 7 billion Elite Athlete Development Fund in 2012, and another 6 billion infusion of funds into the fund in 2018-19, to provide stable financial funds for the Hong Kong Sports Institute.

In addition, related funds to support sports development also include the Arts and Sports Development Fund, the Sports Event Matching Funding Scheme, the Hong Kong Athlete Fund, the Five-Year Development Plan for Team Events, and the District Sports Activities Funding Scheme.

If you use "parents" to describe the Hong Kong government and "children" to describe Hong Kong athletes, these are definitely "enthusiastic parents" who are willing to set up funds for various types of development of "children" to meet expenses.

However, the problem is that the government has invested such a huge amount of funds in the development of sports. Can the relevant sports clubs achieve the expected goals of the various funds?

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"Seeking a babysitter": a confused account by the FA

The Chief Executive was also asked by reporters on Tuesday about the problems encountered during the opening season of the local football league (Hong Kong Premier League). The incident is reflecting that the Hong Kong Football Association is one of the "seeking sitters" and has failed to implement relevant government funds. , The expected target of capital injection.

In April last year, the Audit Commission criticized the Hong Kong Football Association for administrative chaos, and many of the expected goals failed to be effectively implemented.

According to a report by the National Audit Office, the FA has been revealed that the average number of admissions in the 18/19 season was 3.6% lower than that in the 15/16 season. In some competitions, the number of admissions with "free flights" turned out to be more than those with ticket purchases.

The performance of a number of index items is unsatisfactory.

The start of the new season is just around the corner, and the FA has more teams that belong to the Super League. For example, Yuyuan and Tian Shuiwei Pegasus have also opted out of the competition, reducing the number of teams in the first Super League with 12 teams to 6 teams. Participants even need to modify the rules of the game to invite amateur clubs and Hong Kong clubs to participate in the competition.

The Secretary for Home Affairs, Xu Yingwei, who accompanied the Chief Executive to today’s press conference, also admitted that "football is one of many sports and we have invested more resources." However, the government seems to have nothing to do and can only rely on the FA to solve the problem on its own. .

The government has indeed put a lot of information on the development of sports and sports events in Hong Kong since the chief executive became the permanent secretary of the Home Affairs Bureau. However, if the government has always been entrusted with inhumanity, no matter how much fund injection, it can only buy a lot of confusion. Account.

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Source: hk1

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