Everyone can say the four-character "youth work", but how many people directly connect young people and senior government officials?
The Pakatan Harapan Lu Hanmin, who participated in the election committee for the current Legislative Council election, used to organize students to discuss public policies and have direct conversations with senior officials. During an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01", he talked about youth policy propositions.
Lu Hanmin said that dialogue with young people is not a one-way indoctrination. Social leaders can also learn a lot of new things from young people. Therefore, he proposed the "Hundred Days Platform", hoping to visit different groups after being elected to learn more about the needs of young people.
From time to time, leaders of the previous generation who have "goed ashore" criticized young people for "laying flat" and "not moving forward." However, he pointed out that young people also have the expertise and limitations of young people. As elders, instead of constantly criticizing, it is better to give a little bit more of the same. Communicate rationally and understand.
His career is on track. Lu Hanmin shared one of his experiences as "delayed pleasure", which depends on whether young people can resist temporary difficulties, absorb experience, and even spend extra time learning after recognizing their expertise and interests. He described "this is Personal choice".
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It's not surprising that the appearance becomes the focus: it is good for politicians to mature
The day before the interview, when Lu Hanmin attended a meeting of the election committee, his appearance was captured by the media, marking him 37 years old this year (press: the day after the interview was his 38th birthday), arousing heated discussions among netizens, saying that Lu looks different. After ten.
Lu Hanmin said with a smile and said that he didn't mind: "Young people look mature, which may be an advantage for politics. If they are mature when dealing with affairs, if others ask and learn that you are a young man, they may be impressed that the score will rise sharply. "
As the think tank of Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Pakatan Harapan Council, Lu Hanmin may have long been upward mobility and some distance from the "popular youth". However, he said he came from a public housing family and grew up in Yiming Village, Sha Tin. He did not move out until he was 30. , Life is very "close to the land": "First of all, I don’t have a flat, and the current residence is rented, so if you buy a flat as an upper-class indicator, I am not an "elite"; I even sell my private car, so "No cars, no buildings."
Claiming that youth work is by no means one-way teaching
In the past, Lu Hanmin and "Hong Kong 01" co-organized the "Strategy-Outstanding Policy People Competition", encouraging students to do policy lobbying work and think about the pros and cons of public policies; his responsible "Being Right Strategist" program has repeatedly invited officials, Social leaders such as parliamentarians and members of the Executive Council have dialogues with students. It can be said that there is practical experience in communicating with young people.
In the process of work, Lu Hanmin felt the mode of communication with the younger generation: "First of all, it is not a one-way teaching, it is a process of mutual learning. Work hard. Let young people come into contact with different social stakeholders. In short, "Don't do anything for the sake of being small." You can see one by one. In many cases, the future social pillars will accumulate little by little through these communication processes."
Lu Hanmin proposed a "100-day platform" on youth policy. If he is elected, 50 activities will be held within the first 100 days to directly listen to the voices of students, online communities, and young people from various organizations; inviting principal officials, guild members, and Young people from all walks of life communicate directly; receive cases from young people asking for help, etc., "I believe that there are not too many parliamentarians who visit different youth groups as often as I do."
He mentioned that young people have a large number of urgent problems that need to be resolved, and the government definitely has a role: for example, housing issues, if they want to have their own space but lack financial ability, can they strengthen the youth dormitory policy; and can young people who rent a building get extra? Many young people have already spent most of their income in repaying their school debts after graduation. Can they adjust the repayment period and increase flexibility? "In short, I hope that the voice of young people will reflect the problem to the government from their perspective, even if it’s just a few. All help is needed."
Lu Hanmin once took charge of the "Be the Right Policymaker" project, and invited officials, parliamentarians, members of the Executive Council and other social leaders to talk to students.
The picture shows an event in early 2019, inviting Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.
(Picture on fb page of "Weizheng Tactics")
Yang Runxiong criticizes Lu Hanmin: "One Penny Strikes One Boat"
However, the Secretary for Education, Yang Runxiong, wrote an article last month criticizing the current "flatness", and advocating a negative life mentality is easily depressing and will hinder social progress in the long run.
The latest "Values Education Curriculum Framework" calls for strengthening the promotion of values education, adding "industry" as the tenth primary value and attitude to be cultivated.
Zou Bingen, a member of the Standing Committee on Values Education of the Curriculum Development Council, even criticized that young people generally have a "emotional mentality of luck and luck."
Lu Hanmin believes that it is not possible to "fight a boat with one penny": "Society will continue to progress, and each generation will be better than the previous generation. This is a fact that human history tells us. Just like in the Science Park, now There are many young people who are doing start-ups, which is completely unimaginable for the older generation." He mentioned that the older generation has experience. Instead of criticizing so much, it is better to pass on the experience and connect between generations. "It’s always easier to criticize "in the newspaper", but do young people really think that way? We have to learn about it personally and do fact-finding. There are too many "comments" in this society. My opinion is Instead of spending time on commenting, it’s better to talk to them directly and understand their needs more practically.”
Specifically, Lu Hanmin pays special attention to cultivating young people's "three outlooks"-outlook on life, values, and world outlook.
Among them, the most obvious help to young people is to improve their "visibility" of their careers as soon as possible: "I believe that when young people are in the learning stage, not too many people may know their expertise and future career development. The mentality of "point first" may be the division of family education, giving the next generation a different perspective. Elementary and middle school education does not have time and enough teacher training for teachers to teach students to make career planning. Young people in general may not see a clear path. As for the possibility of going wrong, choosing the wrong course, etc. In short, we must first give them this vision, increase the options for young people, and learn how to choose. Just like local employment is difficult, is there a suitable position in the Greater Bay Area? It's too late to learn this."
He believes that if he becomes a member of the Legislative Council in the future, it will be much easier to connect young people with different sectors and organize activities to educate young people in their career planning.
Lu Hanmin is the think tank of Lin Jianyue (right), Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Economic and Democrats League.
(Picture of Lu Hanmin's fb page)
Saying "It's so good to make trouble": But Yue Shaozheng made me trouble!
Speaking of "lying flat", this term must be understood together with Mainland terms such as "involution" and "cut leek": it means that after the society has developed to a certain level, some upper-level people who have received development dividends "landed" through continuous Exploit the next generation and plunder their efforts (cutting leeks) to consolidate their position; the next generation can only continue the endless but meaningless vicious competition (involution).
As a result, some young people are fed up with this competitive environment and directly give up competition. Therefore, "laying flat" actually implies generational disputes and accusations of social injustice.
But Lu Hanmin has another perspective.
Taking himself as an example, he believes that even if there is no way out for a while, he can still learn from it and turn it into future experience.
"Just like in my career, I was very "worthy of trouble"." He gave an example of when he first came out to work in society, he was once called into the room by his boss to scold him for two hours, but in fact he was not directly responsible for that. It's him, but the boss will think that "you don't know if you don't know what you want." From this incident, he learns to observe carefully and be flexible.
After Lu Hanmin said the above words, he thought for a few seconds, and said with a smile that the current boss "Yue Shao" had not scolded himself: "Lin Sheng has a good temper. Zhong taught me a lot of substantive knowledge."
"Delayed Pleasure": Take two more steps for your career
This process of learning, patience, absorbing experience, and putting it in handy in the future, Lu Hanmin would call it "delayed pleasure": "Like running sports that I like, I have an idea of "delayed pleasure" and I have been thinking about it. "Patience, you will soon be able to achieve the goal."
He pointed out that it depends on whether everyone is willing to "run two more steps" for career development. For example, after working hours, spend some more time to learn more knowledge and engage in social service: "I like to work, work hard, do More things I have to do. After work, you certainly have the right to do other things and have fun in time, but you may not move forward so fast. This is a personal choice. Of course, not everyone is so lucky. Turning interest into a career, and there is so much room for development, I am relatively fortunate in this regard. Youth work and public policy are my interests.” So as mentioned above, let young people realize their expertise and interests as soon as possible. , To improve "visibility" is too important for their future development.
During her campaign for Chief Executive in 2017, Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor used the slogan "Go with us".
However, after the legislative amendments in 2019, young people's renunciation of the government seems to be increasing.
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Tear the next to connect the youth: I will give it to any one
Although there are many visions, the limitations of real politics are also very obvious: the political situation in Hong Kong in the past two years has caused dissatisfaction among young people, and since then they have even left Hong Kong with a cold feeling about politics.
In the past, Lu Hanmin connected young people with social leaders and even the Chief Executive Carrie Lam for conversations. It seems that it is very difficult to deal with the current social tears that have not been repaired.
Lu Hanmin said that "What happened is happened." The events of the past two years have indeed caused some young people to go further and further away from the government.
He confessed that no one has a panacea, but he will continue to maintain the belief that "do one and get one", reiterate "Don't do little without doing good", and connect young people with the government as much as possible within his own ability: "Youth is the society." "Key stakeholders", as the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China said, "Youth prosper the country, and the youth is strong, the country is strong." Even if it is one or two, as long as I have the opportunity to talk to them, I will go."
Lu Hanmin is a candidate for the Legislative Council Election Committee. For the list of candidates from all sectors in the Legislative Council election,
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