The disparity between the rich and the poor in Hong Kong has always been very serious. According to the 2020 Hong Kong Poverty Report compiled by the Census and Statistics Department, there are 1.653 million people living in poverty. In addition, there are more than 220,000 people living in subdivided houses with extremely harsh environments and not cheap rents.
Although the Government has a poverty alleviation committee headed by the Chief Secretary for Administration to deal with related issues, it seems that it has nothing to do with poverty.
The Secretary for Labour and Welfare Director Luo Zhiguang wrote a blog in August, mentioning the disparity between the rich and the poor in Hong Kong, but instead of suggesting a solution, he criticized "general scholars, media, and current affairs commentators are still accustomed to using Hong Kong’s pre-tax and welfare "The Gini Coefficient before the transfer" is not fair.
However, even if the Secretary's insistence on the calculation method of the Gini coefficient is correct, does it mean that the poverty alleviation work of the Hong Kong government is not a problem?
Will the 1.65 million poor people and 220,000 sub-housed residents cease to exist?
Leung Cheuk Waigang, who was appointed Executive Director of Charity and Community Affairs of the Jockey Club, resigned from the University of Hong Kong School of Medicine.
(Photo by Li Zetong)
A few days ago, Leung Cheuk Wai, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, resigned to President Zhang Xiang. He intends to accept the appointment of the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the Executive Director of Charity and Community Affairs after the end of the semester. "Third redistribution" work.
When everyone is talking about "common prosperity" today, Liang Zhuowei’s career choice reflects an interesting phenomenon. It seems that we all think that the Jockey Club’s charitable trust fund may be more proactive in responding to the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor. Hong Kong will have to do it a third time. distribute……
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