Hong Kong’s next leader laid out his policy vision, including boosting the city’s competitiveness and access to mainland China’s markets
HONG KONG—The city’s next leader laid out his policy vision Friday, including boosting Hong Kong’s competitiveness as an international city with access to mainland China’s markets. One thing he didn’t offer was a road map for the financial center to emerge from its pandemic isolation.
“Covid is not going to live with us forever. At some stage, it will be under control,” said Mr. Lee, who will take office July 1 after a May 8 vote by an election committee of around 1,500 mostly Beijing loyalists. “In the long term, it is how we make people realize the attractiveness and the competitiveness and the beauty of Hong Kong as a place they should come to work, to live and to develop,” he said, without giving a time frame.
Schools have recently resumed in-person classes after months of home learning, the latest in a series of openings and closings of classrooms that has angered many parents and teachers. “Clarity has to come back to the city about how we go out of this pandemic, how we can live in Hong Kong without having to quarantine, without the fear of ending up in an isolation facility with Covid,” Mr. Gollob said. He added that he understood why it might be hard for Mr. Lee to share any plans for reopening before he takes office.
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