For a long time, when it comes to regional administration, it only talks about the level of public opinion, and no one understands the division of labor and response within the government.
The Chief Executive announced that the Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing-hing, is responsible for the administrative work of the district, including cleaning up black spots in the district and blocking the streets. In fact, these work should be the responsibility of the district affairs commissioners. , the Home Affairs Commissioner simply does not have enough command ability and authority to direct the regional work of different government departments.
Government departments cannot manage their own affairs, so the ultimate goal of Deputy Director Zhuo should be to propose a plan to reorganize the regional administration within the government.
It is the right way to study and implement the authorization plan of a public opinion representative only after having the regional administrative plan within the government.
Why?
The representatives of public opinion are elected, and if the command of the government departments is not coordinated, it will only create negative energy and continue to circulate.
The problem with the 25 district councils in the past is that the district councillors elected by the districts have no real right to supervise and can only criticize the government.
At present, the Hong Kong government departments have dozens of political issues: regional traffic issues, regional medical issues, regional education issues, regional housing issues, regional health issues, and regional cultural facilities issues. There is no comprehensive way to deal with them.
Unlike the mainland, there is a district governor, who has power in the area under its jurisdiction.
The current Transport Department is an independent kingdom at all. It does not listen to regional opinions at all and has no regionalized transportation projects.
Although they have some traffic directors in charge of the region, their thinking starts from Central and lacks the concept of regional traffic.
For example, to push a bicycle, how to push in certain areas?
How to push?
The TD wants to take the lead, but it doesn't.
There are several departments in the government that must have a regional system: the FEHD, the DH, the LCSD, and the Transport Department.
The government must first make internal integration, determine what model to use to implement regional administration, and what should be included?
Before the fifth wave of the epidemic broke out, the regional administrative system was basically paralyzed.
There are many people in the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, but they cannot play any role.
why is that?
There are dozens of community centres in Hong Kong, but they seem to be non-existent.
They belong to the Civil Affairs Administration, so the Civil Affairs Administration also needs to carry out major reforms. The Home Affairs and Youth Affairs Bureau, which is in charge of regional administrative work, should shoulder this responsibility.
The Civil Affairs Administration must establish a clear subordination relationship with other administrations. It is not as if several departments are on an equal footing when a regional meeting is held, so you have your say, I have me, and you cannot change the problem concretely.
In fact, if nothing else, the issue of traffic lights is already very funny.
Recently, the Hong Kong government launched some "Ghost Extinguishing" traffic lights, which emit some faint red light, creating an atmosphere of terror. Is it trying to create a Hong Kong version of Stranger things?
These bizarre problems that do not conform to planning principles are because the Transport Department does not abide by the planning of the Planning Department and is not regulated. It does whatever it likes.
In many large cities, the planning department is responsible for regional planning, from the aesthetics of transportation facilities to many things have a system to do.
This is not the case in Hong Kong. Each department can do whatever it likes, which is very uneven.
So in the final analysis, the core task of the Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration is to restructure the district administration systems within the Government so that they can be effectively implemented.
This is also the most important first step to truly echo what President Xi said about improving governance.
Hu Enwei
is a member of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Zuni.
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