The Legislative Council Election Committee has gathered people from different backgrounds, political and business celebrities, academics and executives abound. However, there are a few candidates with no shining background, holding the resumes of ordinary people, hoping to stand out in this melee. Cai Yongqiang of the Federation is one of them.
This KMB bus captain from the grassroots has no political experience in parliament, but he has the determination to join the parliament. There is only one reason: to truly reflect the voice of the grassroots.
Cai Yongqiang, like many college graduates, cannot find a job in a related industry after finishing his college degree, so he has to switch careers.
(Photo by Huang Baoying)
Too few positions to enter the bank without a college graduate portrayal of college graduates
In Hong Kong, there is a professional with the word "teacher", which generally represents a good income, such as lawyers, accountants, and surveyors. Like graduating students, they seem to have no relationship with the "teacher".
Land surveying has a narrow line. When graduation every year, the Lands Department will provide training positions to some students. After training, they can get a surveyor license. However, the relevant positions are seriously insufficient. About 40 people graduated that year, and there were only about 8 relevant positions. , Cai Yongqiang is not one of them.
As for private companies, he bluntly said that the labor force is very low. In 2004, a company offered a price of 7,000 yuan, and his first marketing job had a labor force of 12,000 yuan.
"The job of 7,000 mosquitoes is called "Snake Boy" in the industry. It is seen on the street holding a tripod with a machine on it."
He pointed out that these jobs can be done with or without university-related training. "There is no land surveying job that can be linked." "After ten or twenty years, there is no chance to get the qualification for the examination."
Unable to enter the industry, Cai Yongqiang had to switch to other jobs, including service industry and sales industry. About 10 years ago, he was introduced by a friend to become the bus captain of the KMB.
Hope Hong Kong develops diversified industries so that students can apply what they have learned
Cai Yongqiang’s personal experience is a portrayal of a large number of graduates every year, especially those who study specialized subjects. After graduation, they often cannot find a job in their field. "I think that 8 of them entered government work two or three years after graduation. The classmates work in the government, and there are about three or four people in private companies," which means that two-thirds of the graduates are not engaged in land surveying-related jobs.
He said that many students nowadays are not "studying or doing special subjects." He attributed this phenomenon to the hollowing out of Hong Kong's industry: "The largest part of Hong Kong's GDP comes from the service industry. Other industries can't do it. To the pillar".
Even if there is a continuing education fund to "make up the bottom", Cai Yongqiang pointed out that it is not a long-term solution: "I think young people have better job opportunities, the simplest department to apply their knowledge." He hopes that the market and education can cooperate with each other to develop diversified industries. Attract students from different majors to avoid wasting educational resources. "If you go to any university and ask students, do you want to apply what you have learned? If you ask ten out of nine, you can think about it."
The difficulty of picking up HOS flats in the public housing car is like a Mark Six lottery
Cai Yongqiang, who was born at the grassroots level, works in a trade union. He has heard many plights of grassroots life, and housing is naturally the biggest problem.
He said that even if many workers are eligible for public housing, the waiting time is often very long. Long, bluntly, housing is the most influential thing for grassroots workers.
If public housing is not available, the burden of renting is also very heavy. "Based on the 15,000 yuan paid by grassroots workers, the rent may account for half of the labor. It is about the poor living environment of the family and the expensive rent."
Like many generations born in the 1980s, Cai Yongqiang's labor exceeded the public housing income limit, so he went to buy HOS flats. "I have used it for a few years, but it's so difficult to get it." He describes it as "a hit once." Mark Six".
He pointed out that young couples are currently "lined in the most crowded line" in the HOS lottery, hoping to improve the mechanism, such as placing the first lottery participants in another line, so that young people who have married and are married can speed up their way upstairs.
For solving the housing problem, Cai Yongqiang has three short-term, medium-term and long-term goals: in the short-term, he hopes that the government will speed up the construction of transitional housing and allow subdivided households to live temporarily. However, to solve the problem, it is necessary to speed up the construction of public housing in the planning and construction procedures. , And also pointed out that the government's proposal to split the Transportation and Housing Bureau is the right direction.
If the transitional housing is too remote, it will not help the sub-household households.
In recent years, the government has searched many places in Hong Kong to build houses, especially transitional houses, but some of the sites are relatively remote. Cai Yongqiang believes that it is not ideal in the long run.
He said that the current sub-divided houses are mainly concentrated in Kowloon. There are mainly several types of residents. In addition to those who are forced to live in sub-divided houses with low incomes, some people simply rent flats in the urban area because of the distance between work and their original residence. Live in order to shorten working hours and reduce transportation costs.
Cai Yongqiang said that these people who live in sub-houses for work will not move to remote places themselves.
In addition to the need to go to work nearby, poor families often have to take care of their children's education needs. "From the finest to most of them, they study in Sham Shui Po. If you ask the children to adapt to the new environment, how can you accept it?"
Urban renewal only hears the stairs sounding the old building in To Kwa Wan. The redevelopment talks about four parts of the first century
In contrast, urban renewal is definitely a plan to help the grassroots improve their living environment while being able to go to work and school nearby.
When it comes to urban renewal, Cai Yongqiang has personal experience.
It turned out that he lived in a tenement house in To Kwa Wan with his family for many years. When the Kai Tak Airport moved to Chek Lap Kok in 1997, his middle school classmates were already discussing "the airport has moved, and Kowloon City and To Kwa Wan will soon be rebuilt." After a quarter of a century, reconstruction is still in the foreseeable future.
He said that after entering the parliament, it is necessary to discuss with professionals to promote the acceleration of urban renewal, and other directions that can promote housing policies will definitely be studied.
The experience of Xiu Xiu sent to the hospital and the overwhelming experience of the medical system
Cai Yongqiang was with his family. An accident happened to the elderly in the family, which made him feel that the medical system in Hong Kong was overloaded.
Cai Yongqiang's family members include an elderly woman who is in poor health.
He said that he tried to faint at home and called an ambulance at 999 at 3 p.m. to send an ambulance to the emergency department, but it was considered non-emergency, so she had to wait outside the emergency room. As a result, she could not see the doctor after her family was released from work.
Tsai Wing Keung, the bus captain of the KMB of the Federation of Trade Unions.
The old man pushed his own wheelchair and took the bus to the follow-up consultation Cai: So miserable!
During the driving of the bus, the medical system can also be seen to be seriously overloaded. Cai Yongqiang said that if you drive through the UCC, "two or three wheelchairs will not be thrown away." It is mainly the elderly who get on the bus by one person and all get off at the UCC.
"Is it because the medical system has a problem, so that the elderly in this class have to work hard to go to the follow-up?" Cai Yongqiang said with a choked voice: "I have to slowly push my wheelchair to the hospital. It is a miserable situation." He suggested to the government. Medical transportation services can be increased to allow the elderly to have better follow-up consultation arrangements.
New housing villages do not have adequate supporting facilities, "open wasteland cattle" commuting to get off work is a traffic headache
As the bus captain, Cai Yongqiang talked about traffic problems and pointed out based on his driving experience that the government did not take the initiative to plan the delivery of packages in advance.
Tsai Wing-keung drove many bus lines. He said that when the government was building housing estates, it would "start first" and then slowly consider the transportation facilities. As a result, citizens who were "opening up wasteland" had to face the problem of commuting to and from get off work. Many people are deterred from newly developed areas, hoping that the government can do better in this regard.
Kwun Tong traffic congestion is often caused by the government's introduction of navigation programs
Another traffic problem is traffic jams, which bother drivers and wage earners every day. In addition to the well-known problems of large numbers of cars, illegal parking and poor road design, Cai Yongqiang also has another experience: "Hong Kong people don't have much empathy." He said that buses and minibuses enter the "buried station" in areas prone to traffic congestion. If the private car is allowed to give way when "out of the station", the road can already be less congested. "If you don’t get out of the station forever," If you don’t get out, you’ll be able to withstand it,” causing more and more cars to wait on the road.
He mentioned that some government road sections have designated "bus priority" areas to remind other drivers to let the bus "get out", but based on his experience, not many drivers give way. I hope that all road users will have empathy. , Let’s avoid getting stuck because of "getting out of the station".
When people in Hong Kong talk about traffic congestion, they will definitely think of Kwun Tong. Tsai Wing-keung said that traffic congestion in Kwun Tong is "unscheduled and undirected."
He proposed several improvement plans. One is to study whether the road can be re-planned, and the other is to use the government's real-time monitoring of traffic data to make a navigation program to immediately notify the driver to avoid traffic jams to ease the traffic.
Union of Tai Wai Bus Turnover Accident: Reflecting Potential Problems of "Order Line"
In mid-November, a bus overturned accident in Tai Wai, and some passengers suspected that the bus captain was on the wrong line.
Cai Yongqiang quoted the position of the labor union as saying that at the beginning of the epidemic, some citizens worked from home and the bus company shortened the original travel time due to reduced demand. However, when economic activities resumed, the company did not restore the travel time, and the bus captain arrived at the station. The rest time is reduced.
However, due to the decrease in frequency, the situation of temporarily arranging the "Order line" of other routes has increased, and even "jumping around" within a day, the captain may not be able to adapt.
He said that from the standpoint of the union, he hopes that the company will not set up too many "Order lines" and try to allow the listed car captain to pick up one at most a day, and the reserve captain who likes to drive on different lines can act as a substitute.
Cai Yongqiang: Be empathetic
Bus captains come in contact with nearly a thousand passengers every day. Naturally, various situations arise. Sometimes empathy is very important.
I have tried an elderly person who got on the car, and it happened that the Octopus balance was insufficient and he was reluctant to pay half the fare. Seeing this situation, Cai Yongqiang would say to them, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter once and half a time." "You must be empathetic." Well, I believe that the company will understand the situation, and the company will promote love, because it is always a large company, has social responsibility, and will give grace to the situation."
Union work emphasizes communication and hopes to maintain contact with the grassroots after being elected
Cai Yongqiang, who studied marketing in his spare time, worked as a KMB coach for 10 years. He participated in trade union activities for the first 5 years and then participated in trade union work for the next 5 years. He understood that trade unions can play a role in communication between the company and employees.
He said that the company has not had a consistent typhoon guideline for many years, and each time it depends on the situation. Sometimes it is necessary to return to the company early, and sometimes it is only necessary to wait for notification at home. In this case, the union becomes the company and the employee. Communication bridge between: "Thousands of employees called back to the company to ask about the situation, but they didn’t get there after two hours. The union has a WhatsApp group that can publish company news to employees in one go." 5 years In the meantime, Cai Yongqiang was promoted step by step from a union worker to a director. He took heavier responsibilities and had more contacts at the same time, including collecting opinions from employees and holding exchange meetings with the company. All of these need to be up and down. Communication skills.
The council is a place where citizens’ voices communicate with the government. Cai Yongqiang hopes to contribute with years of communication experience: "Communication must not be spoken face-to-face. I have 10 years of experience in contacting the general public. It is easy to get first-hand information and understand the plight of the people. Seeing a phenomenon is naturally associated with the problems encountered by the citizens, because I am all at the grassroots level, and the problems are also my heartfelt voice, so I can reflect what the citizens really want to the government."
When asked if he would become a full-time legislator if he was elected, Cai Yongqiang showed his dissatisfaction with the career of a car captain: "If the company can cooperate, I would like to work as a KMB part-time because I really want to have the opportunity to continue to communicate with the grassroots. , To get in touch with the channel. Even if you don’t work as a KMB, you can do as many regionally as possible. At the same time, I will work hard to communicate with every trade union of the Federation of Trade Unions and feel the voice of the grassroots."
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