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2021-11-07T23:13:29.332Z


As the “second-in-command” in the SAR government, the “Chief Secretary for Administration” is second only to the “Chief Executive”. He is responsible for supervising the work of various decision-making departments designated by the Chief Executive.


The Chief Secretary for Administration, as the “second-in-command” in the SAR government second only to the “Chief Executive”, is responsible for supervising the work of various decision-making departments designated by the Chief Executive, and plays an important coordinating role in the policy formulation and implementation process, so usually Assigned to chair some higher-level "consultative committees" and "coordinating committees."



When the former Chief Secretary for Administration Zhang Jianzong left his post, he was counted as the chairman of 15 committees in seven areas in his tenure. However, a comprehensive overview of what he presided over involves people's livelihood, civil affairs, environmental protection, population policy, children and youth affairs, political system and the Mainland Committees in areas such as affairs, each area is inherently complicated and tricky, not to mention having multiple roles, just attending meetings repeatedly may be difficult to cope with, and many of them overlap with the functions of the original organizational structure. No wonder the outside world will question the difficulty of the committee under the Chief Secretary for Administration to play a practical role.



This can't help but make people wonder, whether these committees are "resistance" or "help" to the implementation of the policy?

If even the committee led by the "second commander in the SAR" is not very effective, is there still a need for the remaining nearly 500 government committees?

For detailed analysis, please read

the series of reports in

the 290th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly

:

The effectiveness of the system of government committees is not what it used to be. Can the Chief Secretary for Administration personally supervise things to turn things around?

15 high-level committees have unlimited meetings to solve problems

510 consulting and statutory organizations have no positioning to talk about how they can be effective

"Patriots Governing Hong Kong" Requests to Upgrade Bring Rebirth Opportunities

The SAR government held a civil servant oath ceremony at the government headquarters.

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New forces in the Legislative Council emerge to get rid of the shackles of interests

The nomination period for the Legislative Council election is half past. Although there are very few democrats, the election campaign is not a boring one.

With the multi-party participation of the establishment and the competitive requirements, a large number of unexpected "news" have appeared this time. Among them are those with political or social service experience, and leaders in their industry or field. It can be expected that the new election The emergence of "new people" in the Legislative Council is accompanied by new thinking and new methods. The society expects them to be able to solve the deep-seated contradictions in Hong Kong.

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"Hong Kong's New Direction" Zhang Xinyu runs for the New Territories North constituency.

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What does the Democratic Party's defeat in the 2021 election mean?

Odd-numbered years are small election years in the United States.

However, in the just-concluded elections, the Democratic Party's votes in important elections in different parts of the country have been far lower than expected.

In the governor election in New Jersey, the current Democratic Governor Phil Murphy won by a much smaller margin than expected.

In the New Jersey state legislature election, Steven Sweeney (Steven Sweeney), who has been the president of the State Senate, lost to an unknown truck driver opponent.

This Republican opponent is said to have succeeded in his campaign for only $153.

Naturally, what attracted the most attention from all walks of life was in Virginia, where the Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin defeated the Democratic candidate and former governor Terry McAuliffe.

Virginia has become a blue state in recent years, especially in the presidential election last year, where Biden's vote in the state was 10% higher than Trump's.

But in this year's election, the three most important positions at the state level were won by Republicans, which sounded a wake-up call for the Democratic Party.

What does it mean for the Democratic Party to be defeated in the 2021 election?

Can we predict that the Democratic Party will be defeated in the 2022 midterm elections?

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The Republican candidate Young King successfully took the opportunity to hype education issues and won the Virginia governor election.

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Facebook changes its name to Meta, deploys meta-universe paradigm shift or escapes scandal?

At the end of last month, the social network giant Facebook officially changed its name to Meta in order to reposition itself to prioritize the development of the metaverse in the future.

Metauniverse has become one of the most talked about future technology and investment concepts in the past year. Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg has also somewhat revealed his vision for Metauniverse in recent months.

The next question is, how does Meta realize this next stage of the Internet?

When people from all walks of life questioned Zuckerberg's name change when he was caught in the scandal of the "Facebook File" of the Wall Street Journal, it was just a diversion. Will entering the metaverse cause Meta to fall into a greater trust and moral crisis?

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In the clip of the Facebook Connect annual developer conference, Meta CEO Zuckerberg used AR glasses to have a fencing class with the Tokyo Olympic women's individual foil gold medalist Lee Kiefer in the meta universe.

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