01Analysis｜The business community’s approval of the “Hong Kong Kangma” is ready for one year, and two factors have closed the gate

The epidemic situation in Hong Kong has stabilized. The business community is concerned about when to resume customs clearance with the Mainland. The Hong Kong government is encouraged to speed up the introduction of the "Hong Kong version of the health code" in order to integrate with the Mainland and Macau. Some people have even advocated the installation of tracking functions for "voluntary customs clearance".

According to information, the Hong Kong Health Code was developed last year and is technically ready. It is understood that the Hong Kong government has been absorbing the opinions of the business community to offer plans for customs clearance in the Mainland, including suggesting that the Chamber of Commerce should be partially opened to obtain two doses of vaccines and submit antibodies. The report is a prerequisite. In exchange for shortening the quarantine period and setting limits on the number of days you wish to stay, it was not accepted. Even if it was reported that only Hong Kong and Macau could communicate with each other in the middle of the year, the key lies in the mainland and the Winter Olympics next year, so the news is estimated It is difficult to clear customs in the short term.

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Recently, the establishment of public opinion has urged the Hong Kong government to speed up the launch of the "Hong Kong version of the health code," including Tu Haiming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Hong Kong, and Lin Jianfeng, a member of the guild, such as the Pakatan Harapan.

When Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor attended the Legislative Council yesterday (8th), he was questioned about the "Hong Kong Health Code". The suggestions at the meeting included a trial of Shenzhen-Hong Kong interoperability. The Federation of Trade Unions Mak Mei-juan directly suggested that the current "Travel with peace of mind" should be installed for tracking. The function is in line with the "health code" in the Mainland.

Carrie Lam said that the SAR government will try its best to achieve any prerequisites for favorable customs clearance proposed by the Mainland.

In addition, it has proposed to the central government to conduct "expert docking" on customs clearance issues between the two places to discuss the requirements for customs clearance.

According to information, the Hong Kong government proposed in August last year that the Hong Kong health code has been developed and only records the personal information required for entry and exit, including name, gender, date of birth, certificate number and contact phone number, as well as the name of the medical testing institution and valid nucleic acid. The test results are used for entry health declaration purposes without any tracking function.

At that time, political parties proposed to use the health code to enter and leave certain places in Hong Kong. Chief Executive Carrie Lam responded that the Hong Kong health code is designed to facilitate travel. If it is extended to public places, it will be unfair and unrealistic.

Local entry and exit records are implemented using "Travel with peace of mind".

Zeng-Shang-Hong Kong-Macau interoperability finally failed due to consideration of connecting Zhuhai

It is understood that the Hong Kong government has continued to lobby the mainland for customs clearance in the past year. It has considered proposals from the business community, including opening up business places first, which will be allocated by major chambers of commerce, and that the two doses of vaccines and the submission of antibody reports are the prerequisites. Stay up to 7 days, etc., in exchange for shortening the quarantine period from 14 days to 7 days, but the plan has not been updated until the middle of last month.

As for the talk about two-way customs clearance with Macau in July this year, it finally fell through.

Officials in outbreak areas are held accountable for stricter border leak prevention

Why the "Hong Kong version of the health code" has been prepared for a year, and it has been useless so far. It is understood that the resistance does not come from the design and form of the "health code".

An official in charge of border affairs revealed that even Hong Kong and Macao have not been released. One of the reasons is "politically incorrect." The two special administrative regions cannot communicate on their own.

Secondly, coincidentally this year when the Delta variant virus outbreak broke out at the Nanjing Airport in Nanjing, the responsible officials were suspended. Taking lessons from the past, various regions were more cautious in blocking leaks. Taking into account that Macau and neighboring Zhuhai have cleared customs, although Hong Kong has not reproduced local cases, However, the proportion of the population of imported cases is higher than that of the mainland. It is worried that once Hong Kong and Macao are connected, there will be a "epidemic gap", which will affect the holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year.

Liang Zichao: Customs clearance must be discussed, exposing Shi Anxin travel and Mainland health codes must be docked. System dismantling. Establishing a system to promote "voluntary customs clearance" to avoid privacy disputes.

The Hong Kong CPPCC reprimands the Hong Kong government for refusing to push the health code as a shield for a different system

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