The governance team of the next-term SAR government will make its debut on Sunday (June 19).
The new team comes on stage at a time when the global economy is facing huge headwinds. Facing new crises, it will be the biggest test for Hong Kong to be able to recover from misfortune in the future.
The biggest challenge for the current global economy is that inflation is sweeping the world, but economic development has been severely stagnant, and most economies have entered a stage of stagflation.
The runaway inflation itself is caused by these Western governments being overly optimistic about a series of economic and social issues, making successive misjudgments, taking only short-term measures and completely ignoring long-term policy effects.
These policy mistakes are not made by Hong Kong. In the global system, Hong Kong cannot survive alone and has to bear the consequences.
Although the pressure of inflation has not been transmitted to Hong Kong and is still within a reasonable and controllable range, the tightening monetary policies implemented by Western economies to control inflation still bring enormous pressure to Hong Kong's economy.
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Tight monetary policies implemented by western economies to control inflation still put enormous pressure on Hong Kong's economy.
Parliamentarians speak out to keep the deliberation power of the restriction order, the government ignores the difficulty of the parliament to achieve good governance and good governance
There was a "small protest" in the Legislative Council earlier. The SAR government suggested that the arrangement of tightening or relaxing the number of people in the "gathering restriction order" should be changed from the current legislative form of "setting up and then reviewing" to the Food and Health Bureau. The Secretary directly gazetted the announcement to take effect. As a result, cross-party lawmakers questioned the oversight of the Legislative Council, and the authorities finally withdrew the amendment.
Although the incident highlights the importance of the courageous voice of legislators, it also makes people wonder how many legislators can “reverse the victory” under the increasing “executive leadership”?
Although the Legislative Council is a "legislative body" as its name suggests, it is actually more of a "legislative body", because the powers of lawmakers to make proposals are quite limited, and their main job is only to amend government bills.
Last year, the central government took action to amend the electoral system. Has there been any subtle changes in the functions and roles of the Legislative Council?
How do these Hong Kong rulers, who are regarded as public opinion and industry representatives, check and balance and cooperate with the government?
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What are the functions and powers of the Legislative Council under the leadership of the executive?
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Equal emphasis on economic and administrative measures to reduce congestion
The Legislative Council Panel on Transport discussed the congestion levy for cross-harbour tunnels last Friday (June 17).
As expected, there was no progress in the meeting, as officials aimed to listen to MPs' views on principle, the government did not collect travel data and analysis until the second half of the year, and consulted the public in the fourth quarter. There is no plan in hand, and MPs cannot comment on whether the levy is feasible, As a result, they only focused on criticizing the government for changing its name, thinking that the congestion levy was tantamount to an increase in fees, which frightened the public and made the discussion pointless.
Only Lu Chung-hsiung's proposal to limit the movement was more radical, and the Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, responded that it should be handled with care.
The effect of traffic restriction can be discussed, but it is certain that it is difficult to limit the traffic flow by means of incremental fare increase alone, and the relief of traffic congestion cannot be lenient, and it must be immediate, so that the public can feel the benefits of saving time.
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The government's three-tunnel diversion plan, which even the pro-establishment camps dare not support, has been accused of clumsy handling.
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Inquiring about the Henan Red Code Civil Defence Incident: Power cannot be willful
Recently, the incident of “saving depositors being given red codes” in Henan has been criticized.
Today in the 21st century, at a time when the value of the rule of law is becoming increasingly prominent, it is really shocking that there is such a strange thing as giving red codes to depositors who safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
This time in Henan, "the depositors were given a red code", all have a common feature, that is, they had deposited money in several village and town banks in Henan earlier, but they have been unable to withdraw it recently. In desperation, they went to Henan to communicate and solve the problem, but suddenly Being precisely assigned a red code, he immediately lost his freedom of travel.
This situation is really absurd.
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Some netizens said that their health code became red.
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When "Small Government" Meets "Big Society" - Is Hong Kong's Community Organization Weak?
Three months ago, Chief Executive Carrie Lam quoted an anti-epidemic expert from the central government's aid to Hong Kong who pointed out that "Hong Kong's community organization capacity is weak", so the "compulsory testing for all" preparations for full-term can only be temporarily put on hold.
But in fact, the strength of social organizations in Hong Kong is not weak. There are more than 50,000 associations that have reported to the "Social Organizations Ordinance" alone, covering all walks of life in Hong Kong, covering labor, capital, fellow township, professional, regional associations, etc. millions of citizens.
However, this force was ignored by the SAR government in the face of the extremely severe fifth wave of the epidemic and was not mobilized in time.
Looking into the crux of the matter, is the government unable to organize because of the large number of associations, or is the government unwilling to spend energy to organize because of the inextricable vested interests?
Chief Executive-designate Lee Ka-chao promised in the "Election Platform" to strengthen the ties between the government and regional organizations, so as to "enhance the effectiveness of regional governance and enhance the capacity of grass-roots social service supply", and to systematically organize and study the Hong Kong society may be to strengthen the The first step in organization.
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The strength of social organizations in Hong Kong is not weak. There are more than 50,000 associations that have reported to the "Social Organizations Ordinance" alone. However, this force has been ignored by the SAR government in the face of the extremely severe fifth wave of the epidemic. Mobilize in time.
(provided by the community-wide anti-epidemic link)
Google ordered engineers to furlough controversy AI LaMDA has self-feeling?
A Google artificial intelligence (AI) engineer claimed that after talking to the company's AI language model "Dialogue Application Language Model" (LaMDA) for several months, he found that it had "feelings of itself". He was arrested earlier this month for this. Google ordered a vacation.
What did LaMDA say to make him think this way?
Has AI technology advanced enough to generate a sense of self?
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Google will demonstrate the natural dialogue capabilities of the large-scale language model AI LaMDA at I/O 2021.
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