Tag: Policy

19 October 2022, HKSAR Chief Executive John Lee today unveiled his first Policy Address, mapping out a bold, comprehensive five-year blueprint for strengthening Hong Kong’s competitiveness by building on the city’s unique advantages and capturing new growth opportunities. This comes against the backdrop of China’s 20th Party Congress, which opened on 16 October. In his opening address, President Xi Jinping highlighted the crucial role of Hong Kong as he charted China’s direction over the next five years, addressing the need to safeguard national security and pursue talent and innovation to give new momentum to development. In line with the “four ... Read more

 East Asia Policy Institute today released a new report on the threat status of a China – Taiwan military conflict. The full report can be found online at the link below: https://www.eastasiapolicy.org/briefingsandreports/despite-the-hype-china-cant-afford-to-risk-a-military-conflict-with-taiwan-for-now. The report concludes that China’s use of military force against Taiwan would inevitably have devastating and long-lasting effects on China’s economy and doesn’t fall within the current leader Xi Jinping’s acceptable level of risk. According to the Weston Sedgwick, the report’s author: “It is important to remember that Xi Jinping and the CCP see Taiwan primarily as a threat to China’s legitimacy, not an opportunity to be seized. ... Read more

SCS elaborates on Policy Address initiatives to civil servants **************************************************************      The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, wrote to civil service colleagues soon after the delivery of “The Chief Executive’s 2022 Policy Address” today (October 19). She also met with representatives from the four civil service central consultative councils and the four major service-wide staff unions this afternoon to brief them on policy initiatives relating to civil service matters in the Policy Address.        Entitled “Enhancing Civil Service Management for a Brighter Tomorrow”, Mrs Yeung’s letter to civil service colleagues outlined the policy initiatives of ... Read more

CE attends 2022 Policy Address District Forum (with photos/video) *****************************************************************      The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, today (August 20) led his team of Principal Officials to attend the 2022 Policy Address District Forum to directly listen to views and suggestions of members of local communities on the first Policy Address of the new-term Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The District Forum was held at Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School and attended by about 100 people from all walks of life.      Twelve Principal Officials participated in the District Forum, including the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-ki; ... Read more

Animal husbandry is the State subject and most of the States have formulated its own breeding policy for cattle deciding on choice of breed, cross breeding strategy, animals of different breeds required, breeding goals in terms of expected genetic progress to be achieved, specific breeding programmes and the control measures that should be adopted to achieve the desired genetic gains in the population.  As per Basic Animal Husbandry statistics 2020, the average milk productivity of Indigenous including non descript cattle in the country is 3.08 kg per animal per day during 2019- 20. ... Read more