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DC reform meetings held

The Government held exchange meetings on the theme of improving the district governance system and reforming the District Councils (DCs) at the Central Government Offices today.   Over 80 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) and Hong Kong SAR members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) were there to exchange views on improving the district governance system and supporting the District Council election.   Chief Executive John Lee noted that it is the first major citywide election after improving the district governance system and reforming the DCs, and is of particular significance.   He said it also marks the final mile for the full implementation of the principle of “patriots administering Hong Kong” in the district governance structure.   The Chief Executive also noted that the election is of great significance to the good governance and the long-term st
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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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