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Budget | The three major parties in the establishment promote the distribution of consumer coupons New Democratic Party Rong Haien: We should increase income and reduce expenditure.

2023-01-21T04:43:11.711Z


The "Financial Budget" will be released next month. The Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, the Federation of Trade Unions and the Economic and Democratic Federation all propose to issue electronic consumption coupons. New Democratic Party


The "Financial Budget" will be released next month. The Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, the Federation of Trade Unions and the Economic and Democratic Federation all propose to issue electronic consumption coupons. The New Democratic Party suggested that the government focus on increasing income and reducing expenditure.

All four major political parties are in favor of relaunching the "Capital Investor Entrant Scheme". Member of the Legislative Council of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, Zhou Haoting, proposed to attract overseas investment in specific industries such as innovation and technology and advanced manufacturing, so as to drive the development of related industries in Hong Kong.


The Federation of Trade Unions advocates the distribution of "people's livelihood consumer coupons" and the establishment of a "resumption of work and normalcy fund"

Lu Weiguo, chairman of the Democratic Federation, pointed out that the government launched the "employment protection" plan in difficult times to help many companies tide over the difficulties. Yuan Events Fund, holding large-scale events to stimulate social atmosphere.

He believes that the government should introduce consumer vouchers to stimulate the economy, emphasizing that consumer vouchers can bring about a huge "multiplier effect."

Minlian: Consumer coupons have a huge "multiplier effect"

Deng Jiabiao, a member of the Federation of Trade Unions, pointed out that although there will be a fiscal deficit this year, the government's financial situation will be good in 2021. He hopes that the government will add support to the economy by launching "electronic consumer coupons" and setting up a "business recovery fund".

He said that during the epidemic, many airport passenger transport workers left their jobs, and it is difficult to find people for airport work. He advocated cooperation between labor, government and capital, and used transportation subsidies to attract citizens to work at the airport.

Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong: Consumption vouchers should not be less than 5,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan for dental care vouchers

Zhou Haoding said that under the government's ability, no less than 5,000 yuan of consumer vouchers should be distributed, and he urged the government to add 2,000 yuan of dental care vouchers for the elderly to use private market or even cross-border dental services.

New Democratic Party Legislative Council member Rong Haien believes that the government should focus on increasing income and reducing expenditure, and injecting labor into the future. He suggested providing financial support to young parents to reduce the burden of childcare and encourage childbirth.

Multi-party advocates re-launching investment immigration to promote optimization and attract advanced manufacturing industries

Zhou Haoding also proposed to launch a targeted "capital investor entry scheme", which allows people who invest in advanced manufacturing companies to obtain Hong Kong permanent resident status. It is believed that it can attract related industries to Hong Kong and train Hong Kong talents: "Talent, money are all Yes.” Rong Haien hopes to re-launch investment immigration to inject impetus into small and medium-sized enterprises, and also believes that the list of approved investments should be optimized to require investment in industries such as green finance and innovative technology.

Deng Jiabiao agreed that there is a need to restart the investment immigration program to show Hong Kong's international tolerance, but it is necessary to optimize the measures to avoid the perception of attracting outsiders to speculate in real estate.

Lu Weiguo pointed out that Hong Kong needs to develop high value-added industries, and believes that the government's launch of the "High-end Talent Pass Scheme" is in the right direction to attract leading talents, and it is gradually showing results.

However, he pointed out that "Hong Kong lacks not only talents with an annual salary of 2.5 million yuan, but also those with an annual salary of 250,000 yuan." , surveying, urban planning and gardening support", subsidizing the industry to train university graduates.

Budget|Federation of Trade Unions proposes to distribute 10,000 yuan of consumer vouchers for people’s livelihood that can be used to pay water, electricity and coal bills. Distributing 10,000 yuan consumption coupons for first home buyers aged 40 or below tax-free, and gradually withdrawing the hot money not as high as in the past

Source: hk1

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