As an agency that assists the Chief Executive in decision-making, the Executive Council has constitutional status and the power to assist in decision-making. The Chief Executive must consult the guild before making important decisions, introducing bills to the Legislative Council, formulating subsidiary regulations and dissolving the Legislative Council. Peers will make the decision.
The society has different imaginations and expectations of the Executive Council, hoping to help the government to achieve "good governance and good governance"; however, the government misjudged the social situation when revising the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, causing an unprecedented governance crisis. The fifth wave of the new crown virus epidemic this year In addition, more than 9,100 people died due to poor prevention and control, all of which raise questions about the failure of the guild to play its due role.
Chief Executive-designate Li Jiachao threatened to strengthen government governance. Will he reform the guild in this regard?
Specifically, what is the problem with the guild, and is it worth keeping?
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Analyzing the Facts and Realities of Executive Councils
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The Past and Present of the Executive Council: From Decision-making Authority to Everyone's Criticism
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The government's various miscalculations in epidemic prevention and control during the fifth wave of the epidemic can be said to be to blame for the Executive Council, which assists the Chief Executive's decision-making.
After all, what are the problems with the current position, functions and composition of the Executive Council?
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Education of national conditions is not only the responsibility of teachers, but also requires the joint efforts of schools, families and society
Given that the 2012 "anti-state religion movement", the 2014 "Occupy Action", and the 2019 "anti-revision turmoil" were all dominated by young students, there have been discussions about the lack of national awareness among young people from time to time, while front-line teachers are regarded as A major obstacle to the failure to popularize patriotic education.
On Wednesday (June 1), the Legislative Council passed the election committee member Deng Fei's proposal to "optimize teachers and effectively implement patriotic education", during which several members proposed amendments to teachers' recruitment, management, training, and the intensity of punishment for breach of morality.
However, can patriotic education be fully implemented by strengthening teachers?
In this regard, Huang Jingrong, the principal of Chuangzhi Middle School, known as the "patriotic school", pointed out that the family and society also shoulder indispensable responsibilities.
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Improving teachers' moral integrity is a good start, but family education also needs to establish a correct concept of the country.
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High school students protest "Down with bureaucracy" as a wake-up call
Since the outbreak of the Shanghai epidemic, as countries and regions outside China have successively chosen to "coexist with the virus" in the face of the more transmissible Omicron variant, China has consolidated its early epidemic prevention results and maintained the "dynamic clearing" epidemic prevention policy It is encountering more and more tests and challenges. In addition, problems such as one-size-fits-all, layer-by-layer overweight, and formalism in the implementation of anti-epidemic policies have exacerbated the public's backlash and dissatisfaction. Group protests of different scales have been exposed in society. event.
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Chen Baojian, Vice President of Peking University and Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, held a loudspeaker to talk with the students.
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The war between Russia and Ukraine has become a tough competition
As of the date of this article's publication, the Russian-Ukrainian war, which started on February 24, has lasted for more than 100 days.
A war that the outside world thought would end in the form of a blitzkrieg has turned into a protracted war.
Before the 100-day mark of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pointed out that 20% of Ukraine's territory has now fallen into the hands of the Russian army, and the front line between the two sides exceeds 1,000 kilometers. On the battlefield, nearly 100 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded in the Ukrainian army every day. It can be seen that the war is exhausting. It is worth noting that the Ukrainian side has implemented a nationwide mobilization, while the Russian mobilization order is still not issued.
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Biden decided to export the "Haimas" rocket launch system to Ukraine.
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The rise of AV2.0 technology has finally found the right solution for autonomous driving?
The self-driving technology that many technology giants have been developing for many years seems to be stuck in a bottleneck in recent years.
Most self-driving cars can still only operate to a limited extent in a single city that is familiar with the map in advance, and some "fully autonomous driving" are nothing more than assisted driving, and some operators have already left.
However, recently, some relatively new players such as Wayve, Waabi, Ghost, etc., advertised as "Autonomous Vehicle 2.0", trying to use another artificial intelligence (AI) approach to break through the existing difficulties in the development of autonomous driving. Market support.
What is the difference between the two technologies?
Will AV2.0 finally make autonomous driving a reality?
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The self-driving car that Wayve trained on the roads of London was equally successful in five other cities it had not been to.
Wayve advocates that AV2.0 is expected to achieve autonomous driving on a large scale.
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