[$10,000 Electronic Consumer Coupon / Consumer Coupon 2022 / Eligibility for Consumer Coupon Application / Update of Information / Supplementary Information / Lost Octopus / Eligible Persons] Financial Secretary Paul Chan announced that the first issue of $5,000 electronic consumer coupons will be distributed on April 7 , Chief Executive Carrie Lam responded at the daily anti-epidemic press conference that the anti-epidemic must be the priority at present, that is, to reduce gatherings, avoid unnecessary going out and cross-family gatherings, restaurants do not have dine-in dinners, and consumption coupons are also used. The prerequisite is that there is no contradiction between the distribution of consumer coupons and the fight against the epidemic.
▼Four major electronic programs for issuing electronic consumer coupons in 2021▼
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Will it trigger a rebound in market traffic?
Carrie Lam: Consumer vouchers have always been the responsibility of the Financial Secretary, I may not have the best grasp of the situation
When asked about the thousands of confirmed cases recorded every day, the government on the one hand appealed to the public to avoid tomb sweeping on Qingming Day and weekends, but on the other hand, it distributed consumer coupons, whether it was worried that the flow of people in the market would rebound.
Before responding, Carrie Lam said that the Financial Secretary Chen Maobo is in charge of consumer vouchers, so she may not have the best grasp of the situation, but she understands that consumer vouchers are valid for a long time. The best grasp of the situation, including consumer vouchers. Because consumer vouchers have always been the Financial Secretary, and in the two years of budget proposals, a task force in the Financial Secretary's Office will also do it."
▼The government announced on February 23 that it will launch electronic consumer coupons this year▼
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The expiry date of consumer vouchers is long. Carrie Lam stressed the need to reduce gatherings and avoid unnecessary going out.
Lam also pointed out that the first-phase consumption coupons have a long use period, and quoted Chen Maobo's appeal in his blog today, not to encourage the public to use them in a hurry, so we must put the fight against the epidemic first.
Just as the current requirement for citizens to reduce gatherings, avoid unnecessary going out and cross-family gatherings, and no dine-in in restaurants, are all prerequisites for the use of consumption vouchers: "Subject to these social distancing measures to use consumption vouchers, so there is no Any contradictions... don’t make the public eager to use it, so it must be the first to fight the epidemic.”
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