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SB holds youth leadership forum

The annual review of the Security Bureau Youth Uniformed Group Leaders Forum was held today, with Acting Chief Executive Chan Kwok-ki giving a speech.   Mr Chan reported that the forum had organised nearly 20 activities over the past year, including courses and training camps run by the bureau’s disciplined services and auxiliary services, and seminars on the country’s Constitution, the Basic Law and the Hong Kong National Security Law. It also organised visits to Beijing, Shaanxi and Greater Bay Area cities, allowing participants to learn more about national affairs and broaden their horizons.   He said he was pleased to note that the bureau plans to strengthen co-operation between the Leaders Forum and Shenzhen University to enhance exchanges between youths in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, deepening their understanding of the development opportunities in the bay area and increasing Hong Kong’s integration into national development.   Noting that members had undergone significant grow
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Electoral change objective clear

(To watch the full media session with sign language interpretation, click here.)   Chief Executive Carrie Lam today said the National People's Congress' deliberation on a decision to improve the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's electoral system aims to ensure that Hong Kong is administered by patriots.   Mrs Lam made the statement when speaking to the media this afternoon.   She said: "The improvements to the electoral system in the Hong Kong SAR are not designed to favour someone. They are designed to ensure that whoever is administering Hong Kong is patriotic.   "And this is only right in terms of political ethics - how could one who is governing a place not be patriotic to that country? It is inconceivable.   "So this is the objective of this exercise and I've made it very clear that the improvements only seek to ensure that it is patriots administering Hong Kong."   Mrs Lam noted that only when this requirement has been fulfilled can Hong Kong’s stability and prosperity be ensured, adding it will help safeguard the city’s constitutional order under the Basic Law and resolve the city’s deep-seated problems.   "Once Hong Kong people realise all these justifications, I'm sure that they will take these elections very seriously because by returning people who are patriotic, who are going to follow the ‘one country, two systems’, then Hong Kong will have a much brighter future in terms of economic development and prosperity."   Mrs Lam pointed out that Hong Kong people will continue to have a role in the future development of the city’s political structure and stressed it has to take place within the proper constitutional framework.   "What we are now seeing are deficiencies in the electoral system which could be exploited by people, including some external forces, and hence return politicians who may take advantage of their position to undermine governance, or even to undermine national security and development interests of the country.   “So when everything is now being restored to its proper constitutional order since Basic Law Article 45 and Basic Law Article 68 are being maintained and retained, then the chance will come, the time will come for Hong Kong's political system to continue to move forward in a gradual and orderly manner with a view to achieving that ultimate objective of universal suffrage in the selection of the Chief Executive."
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