The results of the 2021 general election for the Hong Kong Legislative Council were announced today (December 20). Among the 90 seats in the electoral committee, direct elections by districts and functional constituencies, the establishment has won a great victory. The new thinking chairman with a moderate stance Di Zhiyuan became the only non-establishment member of parliament.
After this election, the establishment that Beijing trusts will have greater voice and control over the formulation of Hong Kong's Legislative Council and even the entire Hong Kong policy.
However, the voter turnout in the Hong Kong Legislative Council election this time, whether in direct elections by district or in the functional constituency, is significantly lower than the 2016 Legislative Council election, and has fallen to the lowest point since the reunification. This shows that a considerable number of Hong Kong people do not agree with it. New selection system.
Under such circumstances, the newly elected legislators in Hong Kong cannot shirk their responsibilities, and the more they have to win people's hearts with their solid political achievements.
In the past many years, the deep-seated contradictions that have arisen and worsened in Hong Kong since the British colonial period, including the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, the consolidation of class, housing difficulties, and the single industrial structure, have not been effectively resolved after Hong Kong’s return to China. Hard to return has become an important internal cause of social instability in Hong Kong.
The outbreak of the Hong Kong legislative turmoil is inseparable from this.
The legislative turmoil exposed all the deep-seated contradictions accumulated in Hong Kong since the colonial period, and plunged Hong Kong into the most serious crisis after the June 7 riots in 1967. "One country, two systems" faced severe challenges.
Under the unprecedented stimulus of the turmoil of amendments, Beijing has made strong adjustments to its governance policies to reshape Hong Kong's governance order, including the revision of the electoral system, which is intended to maintain the stability of Hong Kong's political order and improve governance efficiency.
In July of this year, Xia Baolong, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, said at the seminar "Review and Prospects of the First Anniversary of the Implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law" five conditions for becoming a governor of Hong Kong: In the practice of governing Hong Kong, fully and accurately implement the principle of "one country, two systems", and be a firm patriot"; second, "be good at solving various contradictions and problems facing Hong Kong's development, and be a responsible patriot" and "eliminate the impact on Hong Kong's social and political ecology." The various ailments that have turned for the better have broken through various interest barriers that restrict Hong Kong’s economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood, and effectively solved prominent problems such as housing, employment, medical care, and the disparity between the rich and the poor.” Third, “good at doing practical things for the people, and being a patriot who loves the people.” , "In particular, we must focus on the concerns of the general public, and devote great efforts to adopt practical and effective solutions to solve them, and win the trust of the people with their administrative performance." Fourth, "good at uniting all forces and being an inspiring patriot"; Fifth, "Be good at performing duties, be a responsible patriot."
Now that Hong Kong’s new Legislative Council members have been elected, whether they can meet the five conditions Xia Baolong said and effectively promote Hong Kong’s governance towards good governance and good governance is of particular concern.
In the past, Hong Kong was plagued by ideological tearing and the dispute between yellow and blue. The establishment, the pan-democrats, and the local factions shirk each other and infighted each other, leading to inefficient governance and delaying many problems.
And now the establishment firmly controls the power of the Legislative Council. It should understand the simple truth that the greater the power, the greater the responsibility, and face the deep-seated contradictions that have plagued Hong Kong for a long time, and actively promote Hong Kong's reform.
After all, the establishment can no longer attack and shirk each other with the pan-democrats and the locals as they did in the past. Not only the people of Hong Kong, but also Beijing, will see and evaluate the actions of the establishment.
If the establishment groups do well, they will naturally be recognized by the people of Hong Kong and Beijing; on the contrary, if the establishment groups do not do well, especially if there are legislators deliberately lazy or blocking reforms for their own interests, I am afraid that everyone will be discerning. Eye.
As the visionary of "One Country, Two Systems," the late CCP leader Deng Xiaoping once said that Hong Kong "if anything needs to change, it must become better, and it will be more conducive to Hong Kong's prosperity and development."
Needless to say, although Beijing’s amendment to Hong Kong’s electoral system is based on Beijing’s point of view, there are indeed unavoidable reasons and undeniable necessity and rationality. However, there is a clear lack of recognition in Hong Kong society. This is from the low turnout rate. It can be seen.
Under such circumstances, only the group of Hong Kong rulers generated through the new electoral system can actively act to promote fairness and justice, resolve the deep-seated contradictions that Hong Kong people are generally concerned about, so that young people have more room for fairer growth, and Hong Kong can achieve it. Better development can eliminate the distrust of many Hong Kong people and ultimately win the hearts of the people.
Singapore’s late founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew once said: “I don’t think we say that a government is popular does not mean that it should be popular at all times during governance... Sometimes you have to be completely unpopular, but at the end of your term. , You should bring benefits to the people, so that the people will realize that what you do is necessary.” This sentence is very appropriate to the newly elected members of Hong Kong today. They have a great responsibility and what they do. In particular, whether they can become competent parliamentarians recognized by both Hong Kong people and Beijing is a matter of the effectiveness and credibility of the new election system.
