[01 Weekly Exclusive] How can Hong Kong become a world-class livable city?

"If we want to build Hong Kong into a world-class city, we must first make it a clean, comfortable, beautiful home that we can be proud of... Citizens, businesses, government bureaux and departments should all work together to practice "" "Sustainable Development"." - In September 1997, two months after the return of Hong Kong, the SAR government immediately launched the "21st Century Sustainable Development Study" which lasted for four years; by October 1999, the then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa officially The "Policy Address" put forward the "sustainable development" agenda, hoping to build Hong Kong into a world-class livable city; two years later, the authorities officially announced a set of sustainable development assessment criteria covering living, transportation, leisure, conservation and other aspects.

Twenty-five years on, however, the city doesn't seem to have become more liveable and more suitable for the next generation.

Political turmoil aside, the cost of living alone has often been rated as one of the "world's most expensive cities", not to mention the housing problems that are in short supply, the growing traffic congestion, the lack of public space to breathe, and the lack of public space. Environmental conservation for the slogan.

Stepping into the halfway stage of the 50-year-old promise of "One Country, Two Systems", the Chief Executive-designate, Li Jiachao, promised to lead Hong Kong's renovation chapter - he must answer, how to make Hong Kong a world-class livable and happy city.

Series reports:

Hong Kong needs to become a world-class livable city

Reconstructing the regional competition and cooperation relationship to break the industrial predicament

Integrating China and the West, applying both soft and hard tools to grasp new opportunities for cultural development

Poverty is not a personal problem, the government needs to redistribute and strengthen the social safety net

Restoring the Right to Collective Bargaining Finds a New Balance for Industrial Relations

"Hong Kong is not a colony" provokes education to convey correct concepts

Recently, some media searched four textbooks on "Civil and Social Development" that had been submitted for review by three publishers, and found that "Hong Kong is not a colony" was included in all of them.

This has attracted the attention of Western media such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the New York Times.

For a time, "Hong Kong is not a colony" became a hotly debated topic in Hong Kong.

Several pro-establishment politicians, such as Fan Xu Litai, a former member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and Leung Mei-fen, a member of the Legislative Council and member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee, have publicly echoed and explained this statement.

On the other hand, the government has also started to "enforce" the official Fa. For example, last week, Vice Chairman of the Tai Po District Council, Liu Yongwei, posted on social media that a passage on the Legislative Council's website introducing the history of the Council said that Hong Kong has "been "since January 26, 1841". It was a British colony from June 30, 1997," and as a result, the Legislative Council Secretariat quickly deleted the page.

There are rumors that the government is starting to investigate such statements as "Hong Kong is a colony" and is preparing to rectify it.

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The newly revised Civics and Social Development Subject (Civic) of the Education Bureau has been implemented at Secondary 4 this school year to replace the controversial Liberal Studies subject in the past.

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Tunyuan Tiantian blackout, government citizens also need to grow wiser

The cable bridge at Long Ping Station in Yuen Long caught fire on the evening of last Tuesday (June 21), resulting in large-scale power outages in Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun, affecting about 160,000 households, of which 20,000 households will not arrive until the next day (22nd). The power was restored in the morning, and a small-scale power outage occurred in Yuen Long at night two days later (23rd).

The inconvenience or property damage caused by the power outage for more than ten hours is still limited, but people from all walks of life should not take it lightly.

The government's response this time has not been perfected, and a review is urgently needed. The public's preparedness for disasters can also take this opportunity to improve. If there is a larger-scale and longer-term power outage in the future, we can also be calm.

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Citizens of a building on Xijing Street in Yuen Long were trapped during the power outage, and firefighters arrived at the scene to rescue them.

(Photo by Liang Weiquan)

Fallen Jupiter: Macron's success is also his failure

Recalling that in October 2016, Macron had just established a new political party, resigned as the French economy minister, and began to criticize his "former boss", the then Socialist President François Hollande, in the media.

In a high-profile media interview, Macron argued that the French, as a "political nation", cannot be content with the "execution of procedures" as the basis of their "national pride" like the Germans. What the French need is not a A "normal" president like Hollande, but a president like Jupiter ("président jupitérien"), the head of the gods in ancient Greek mythology.

Unfortunately, in the second round of voting in the French parliamentary election on June 19, Macron's "Ensemble" group won only 245 seats, losing more than 100 seats, 44 seats away from the simple majority, making Macron's "Ensemble" caucus only 245 seats, losing more than 100 seats. He became the first French president in nearly two decades to lack the support of a parliamentary majority.

It is also the largest party in Congress with the fewest seats since the establishment of the French Fifth Republic in 1958.

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On June 21, Marine Le Pen went to the Elysee Palace to meet Macron.

(Associated Press)

"Post-Roe v. Wade Era"?

The Two Fate of America's Poor and Rich Women

In 1973, a Texas woman who went by the pseudonym "Roe" sued the district attorney and was awaiting a Supreme Court decision.

The unmarried and unemployed young American woman became pregnant for the third time in 1969, but was barred from abortion by Texas law and eventually appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

For nearly half a century, Roe v. Wade has been widely regarded as a landmark case in the legalization of abortion in the United States. status.

But last Friday (June 24), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the case by a 6-3 vote, ending the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion.

Although there will be no nationwide abortion ban in the United States, it is believed that women affected by abortion bans in Republican states, especially poor and minorities, will be the biggest victims.

Under the dispute over abortion rights, a social rift formed by rich and poor and racial differences is likely to deepen.

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Please pay attention to the 323rd issue of "Hong Kong 01" e-Weekly Newsletter published on June 27, 2022.

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