Last Wednesday (January 12), the Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, issued a document in the Legislative Council recommending a plan to restructure the government.
If the plan can be deliberated and passed by the new Legislative Council in time, it will expand the current Hong Kong government's "three divisions and thirteen bureaus" to "three divisions and fifteen bureaus". The situation appeared early in the morning in the former Hong Kong government.
The policy bureau's situation of "a long-term division must be combined, and a long-term cooperation must be divided" is not without reason.
As stated in Carrie Lam's election platform five years ago, the purpose of adjusting the government structure should be "in order to improve the efficiency of governance and meet the requirements of the new situation and the new economy for the new role of the government".
However, from the perspective of coordinating with the current situation and solving urgent problems, the new reorganization plan may still have some areas that have not been thoroughly done.
For example, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau claims to lead the development of cultural arts and creative industries that are scattered among the Home Affairs Bureau and the Commerce and Economic Affairs Bureau, but RTHK, which can also be classified in the cultural category, has been kept under the supervision of the Commerce and Economic Affairs Bureau. Moreover, the policy authority related to cultural heritage and environmental conservation still remains in the hands of the Development Bureau, and has not been transferred to the Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Bureau of Environment and Ecology, which "promotes work on climate action, biodiversity, etc."
As for the reason why the society's proposal to integrate the Housing Bureau, the Development Bureau and the Restoration of the Health and Welfare Bureau was not adopted, the reason given by the government is that they may be too large and overworked after the merger, which is in line with the original intention of the plan to straighten out the division of labor slightly contrary.
Since the return, government departments have been restructured several times.
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For details, please read the 300th issue of "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly (January 17, 2022) "
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