(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) As of February 28 this year, Hong Kong's "High -end Talent Pass Plan" has received a total of 14,240 applications, and 8797 applications have been approved, of which 8325 are from mainland China, accounting for the overall approved applicantsNearly 95%.
According to the China News Agency, the Hong Kong Immigration Department disclosed the above figures when answering questions from the Hong Kong Legislative Council Special Finance Committee on Thursday (April 6).
The applications received by the plan also include 97 from Canada, 77 Australia, and 69 in the United States. Applications from the three countries account for about 1%of the total approval; 38 applications from Singapore, which are from Singapore.It accounts for about 0.4%of the total approval.
In addition, the Immigration Department announced that last year, 142 adoptives went to Hong Kong through the "Gao Tong Plan".
After the anti -repair campaign broke out in Hong Kong in 2019, the number of Hong Kong people with 100,000 Hong Kong people immigrated to the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law. Many of them were professional talents, such as medical staff, lawyers, teachers, etc.The policy report published by Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachang in October last year acknowledged that the labor population in Hong Kong has lost approximately 140,000 in the past two years.
In order to fill the loss of talents, the Hong Kong Government has launched a number of plans to attract overseas talents to work and live in Hong Kong in recent months. The above -mentioned "Gao Tong Plan" is one of them.
The application qualification of the "Gao Cai Tong Plan" includes the annual annual salary of HK $ 2.5 million ($ 420,000) or above, and graduated from the top 100 universities around the world, and accumulated three years of work experience in the past five years.People.These two types of people can get a two -year pass to go to Hong Kong for development, and there is no number of people.
As for the work experience requirements, graduates who have graduated from the top 100 universities in the world in the past five years can also receive a pass, with a maximum of 10,000 per year.
Some public opinion in Hong Kong believes that the so -called "grabbing talents" of the Hong Kong Government is actually an interested immigrant for mainland China.
Media: An intermediary assisted the applicant to become "high"
Although Li Jiachao said in an interview that the statement was too biased and narrow, Liu Fufeng, who had served as the director of the Review Department in the mainland news website in the mainland news website, said that the immigrants of the people of the people were issued by Liu FufengIn good deeds, Hong Kong will have a person's structure to change blood. In the future, it is a great time for mainland talents to develop in Hong Kong.
However, according to the Sing Tao Daily, many immigrants in the mainland have launched services to assist the public to apply for services to Hong Kong."Youcai", and the intermediary collected a capital price of 1.8 million yuan (S $ 350,000) for this reason.
