It is high time that the government should get a good grasp of the city’s housing data and establish a comprehensive land database – an instrumental tool for formulating liveability improvement policies that can give citizens back the basic necessity of a humble home.

If the Government considers it necessary to change the IPO mechanism, I believe that it should first regulate the impact assessment and analyze the cost-effectiveness involved, including the impact on different stakeholders such as the society, business community and regulatory bodies.

Our students must understand both the ancient and modern history of China as well as recognize that Hong Kong and the country share the same course of history in order to strengthen their sense of belonging to the country so that they will not harbour the absurd idea that Hong Kong can be an independent sovereign state.

Under the current political ecology, the work of the Legislative Council is increasingly difficult. Martin Liao, legislator of the Commercial (Second) Functional Constituency, is re-elected for his second term. He looks forward to ride on his four years of LegCo experience, to uphold his conviction and to serve the community.

To truly solve the imminent needs of SMEs, the Government, lending institutions and HKMC must strengthen communication among themselves to seek consensus as soon as possible in order to mitigate the SFGS restrictions on applications and claims properly.

For the successful implementation of the Paris Agreement, I hope that the Chief Secretary could boldly, without hesitation, lead other relevant departments to more appropriately address climate change.

The positive approach adopted by the Policy Address that values the “13th Five-Year Plan” and the “One Belt and One Road”Initiative is going the right way. Yet, to achieve mutual benefits and shared success, it must be aligned with  development of the local financial sector. There is much room for the Hong Kong Government to improve in the bond market and on the laws and regulations for the financial technology sector.

This year’s comprehensive, detailed, progressive and forward-looking Policy Address delivered by the Chief Executive for Hong Kong’s long-term development is worthy of our support.

Given the trend of globalization, significant changes have emerged in the nature and training of vocations to cater to the new model of social development. Hong Kong needs to further strengthen vocational education in order to develop a diversified, multi-channel and highly acceptable education and training system.

The traditional Key Industries in Hong Kong, including the Finance Services, Trading and Marine Services Industry, as I have mentioned in my previous article in this series, surely can benefit a lot from the economic activities arising from the vision of “One Belt and One Road”. For the emerging economic sectors, they can find new directions for development from it as well.