Huang Yuanhui: summing up the two or three directions for the supply of land. The interim report will be handed over to the chief executive next month.
The five-month “Land Debate” under the responsibility of the Land Supply Task Force will be completed by the end of September. The Chief Executive, Mrs Lam, has requested the Task Force to hand over the direction in advance for the reference of the October Policy Address. The Chairman of the Panel, Mr Wong Wai-fai, will accept an interview with the Secretary. At the time, the team is currently preparing an interim report, which is expected to be submitted to the Chief Executive as early as the beginning of September. The group will first synthesize the opinions heard during the consultation period. Depending on whether a clear and macro framework can be drawn, it is believed that the general direction of two to three land supply can be summarized.
Developing a country side
The team still arranged nearly 50 small consultations, 1 public forum and 3,000 sample large-scale telephone polls in the remaining months. Huang Yuanhui emphasized that the final report is still unwritten. He admits that the report handed to Lin Zheng in early September had only a few months of public opinion advice. Was asked if it would include the option of reclamation? Huang Yuanhui said: “The members of the recent guild have been sunburned (supporting reclamation), and the group has heard it and won it.”
Huang Yuanhui admits that since the consultation began more than three months ago, there has not been a “one-sided” option, but some options are rarely discussed, such as resetting or integrating a wide range of recreational facilities, using caves and underground space, Transport infrastructure development and so on. He believes this means that there is relatively little support for these options. For the former Chief Executive Liang Zhenying who proposed to develop a country park border, he revealed that this option was discussed by many people, but mainly opposed.
It is difficult to speak overseas
In addition to the 18 options put forward by the group, other suggestions have been made from time to time. The Democratic Party Yin Zhaojian and others have previously advocated the allocation of land for the PLA military camp. Huang Yuanhui bluntly said that this proposal has not been discussed by more than 100 consultations so far. The Government has already indicated that Hong Kong’s military land has defense purposes and has not been idle. Therefore, it has not been included in the option at the beginning.
Another “bounce out of the box” opinion is to borrow land from abroad. The New Democratic Party, Mrs Regina Ip, has proposed to reclamation of the sea west of Lantau Island and to borrow the land from the Central Government to fill out the “Hong Kong Living Area” in Zhuhai, and to put public housing and elderly homes in the district. However, Huang Yuanhui believes that it is necessary to go through the approval of the central government to issue a policy. The problem is that Hong Kong has only developed 24.3% of its land, which is much less than that of Shenzhen. More than 40% of the land has been developed in Shenzhen. The following brothers are the first to get it, and the pendulum is flat. So, in time, I am afraid that I can master the generous option than I can.” He added that if many people mention suggestions outside the 18 options, the team must Will be reflected in the report.
Frankly said, “There may be consensus.”
Li Huiqiong, a member of the guild and chairman of the DAB, prematurely said that he was worried that the land debate could not reach consensus. Huang Yuanhui made it clear that “there may be consensus”: “Consensus is 100% (support), will there be consensus?” He said that land supply has never been “painless” and can only seek several options with relatively high support. A multi-pronged approach to meet the shortage of 1,200 hectares of land, “Is the system narrowed to a divergence? It may not be necessary.”
Mr Wong continued to say that apart from questionnaires and telephone polls for quantitative analysis, every public consultation has transcribed the views of the public and conducted quality analysis through computers. Therefore, even if someone deliberately mobilizes their position, they may not be able to override most of the views of the community.
He pointed out that since the group has made public consultation, it has the responsibility to give the society a solution. It cannot be said that this time it is impossible to draw a conclusion. “What are you going to do? The next group will pass it again? It is possible.” The Government has to make up its mind to implement it. “If you want to do it again, you will not discuss it. If you talk about it and decide it, then you will do it.”