Weekly Exclusive Featured｜Enhancing the level of governance promotes a paradigm shift in Hong Kong’s development

"After the return of Hong Kong, it will be re-integrated into the national governance system." These ten-odd words have appeared from time to time in the past five years since President Xi Jinping proposed at the inauguration ceremony of the fifth SAR government on July 1, 2017. Among the important communiqués of the Central Government and the SAR Government.

On the occasion of the establishment of the new government recently, Xi Jinping reiterated this sentence and put forward four governance requirements for Li Jiachao's government, including improving governance level, enhancing development momentum, resolving people's livelihood worries, and maintaining harmony and stability. The government urgently needs to improve the governance system, improve the governance capacity, and enhance the governance efficiency.

But if you listen a lot, you may not understand.

In fact, from the elites who run Hong Kong to the general public, people always seem to understand at first glance - either people simply understand "governance" as "governance", or they are accustomed to regard it as a central government Empty words declaring sovereignty and governance over Hong Kong rarely go deep into what they mean.

Even though Chief Executive Li Jiachao promised to "strengthen the government's ability to govern" in his campaign platform, he did not elaborate on what governance means, why or how to govern.

Therefore, although many people interpret that Xi Jinping is pointing the way for the future of Hong Kong, and also note that "reforming the governance of the SAR" is the key point, they just can't say why.

In fact, Xi Jinping is promoting a "paradigm shift" in Hong Kong's political development—governance-led and governance-centered, hoping to establish value goals consistent with national governance, and to improve the SAR's governance system and capabilities, so as to achieve enhanced A benign political ecology that develops, resolves people's worries, maintains harmony, and rebuilds trust.

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On July 1, President Xi Jinping attended the inauguration ceremony of the sixth SAR government and delivered an important speech.

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Reformers build financial dreams Li Xiaojia's message to Hong Kong to actively create unique value

Li Xiaojia, the former chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the founder of Diguantong, recently accepted an exclusive interview with Hong Kong 01, reviewing the past 25 years.

He described himself as a "lucky man of the times" -- he returned home after his studies and was stationed in Hong Kong; he could not only enjoy the advantages of international rules, but also participate in the country's development opportunities; he learned from scratch and advanced through trial and error.

"The most important (experience) for those of us who came out of that era is not to have answers, but to ask questions." Li Xiaojia said, "Only by asking questions can we have the urge to seek answers. Ask the right questions to do the right tasks.”

In the blink of an eye, twenty-five years later, China has grown into the world's second largest economy, while Hong Kong has grown into one of the three major international financial centers.

In the past, Li Xiaojia "asked questions" to push Hong Kong Finance forward; in the future, he also expects Hong Kong Finance to actively ask questions and continue to find infinite possibilities that are unique to him.

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Li Xiaojia believes that Hong Kong should take the initiative to innovate for the country's finance.

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The solidified "Hong Kong vision" is difficult to understand Taiwan's collective anxiety

On the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, Chinese leader Xi Jinping attended the celebration ceremony, hoping that "one country, two systems" must be adhered to for a long time.

In Taiwan, the various political turmoil in Hong Kong in the past 25 years has been seen in the eyes. Regardless of the blue or green, they all hold negative and pessimistic sentiments towards "one country, two systems", and they also project their own worries and resistance in the changing situation in the Taiwan Strait, forming the current state of affairs. The majority view of Taiwanese society towards Hong Kong.

The fear of "Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow" is still fermenting in Taiwan, which is dominated by party politics.

Taiwan is caught in a cognitive paradox. It not only wants to show its strong "independence" status to mainland China, and does not accept "one country, two systems" as being implicated in Taiwan, but also follows the old cognition and hears from officials or public opinion that the CCP is "" "Paper tiger", jokingly thinks that "unification" or "wutong" is just Lu Fang's "quick talk".

In fact, Hong Kong's experience itself can be used as a mirror for Taiwan to re-understand the CCP.

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In the January 2020 presidential election in Taiwan, many Taiwanese groups supported Hong Kong and supported Tsai Ing-wen.

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NATO has entered the Cold War mode, the new Cold War is difficult to see the global pattern

After five consecutive G7 and NATO summits from June 26 to 30, a new Iron Curtain is descending on the European continent.

Although the strategic concept is the first to include Chinese content, and the summit even invited the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand for the first time, the content of the threat to China is not new. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also stated that China is not an "adversary" of NATO; the strategic concept is more based on the "deepening strategic partnership between China and Russia" relations” to look at China.

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U.S. President Biden announced that the United States will strengthen NATO's military reinforcements in Europe, saying that NATO is needed now more than ever.

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Three major changes in China's epidemic prevention policy must be summed up

Last Tuesday (June 28), the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council of China issued the "New Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention and Control Plan (Ninth Edition)" to optimize and adjust the isolation management period and method of risk personnel, and close contacts and inbound personnel. The isolation control time has been adjusted from "14 days of centralized isolation medical observation + 7 days of home health monitoring" to "7 days of centralized isolation medical observation + 3 days of home health monitoring".

The next day, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that the “asterisk” mark on the communication itinerary card will be cancelled from now on.

These two adjustments, together with the cancellation of normalized nucleic acid testing in many provinces and cities, as well as the State Council's previous notification of excessive epidemic prevention and outright prohibitions, are regarded as positive changes in China's optimization of epidemic prevention policies according to the circumstances.

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The epidemic has entered its third year, and Chinese society as a whole is showing signs of fatigue due to epidemic prevention.

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Please pay attention to the 324th issue of "Hong Kong 01" e-Weekly Newsletter published on July 4, 2022.

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