Chen Guoji, director of the Hong Kong Department of Government Affairs, said that the labor population in Hong Kong has fallen nearly 6%in four years. In order to fill the gap as soon as possible, increasing the import of foreign workers is an issue that Hong Kong government cannot avoid.
Chen Guoji wrote on Facebook on Saturday (June 10) that Hong Kong's outbreak of the epidemic was steadily reconciled.The Hong Kong government must be moderate and consider whether the more severe industries have the needs of entering workers in a prudent attitude to solve the urgent need.
He pointed out that due to the age of population, the structural labor population has reduced in Hong Kong.The local labor population (except foreign domestic helpers) fell from 3.68 million in 2018 to 3.46 million in 2022.The low -tech labor population is reduced by about 160,000.
Chen Guoji said that the Hong Kong Government has always used multi -pronged strategies, including actively through training and employment measures to increase local supply of local people, but many industries have reported to the Hong Kong Government that it is difficult to invite people.The Hong Kong Government must decisively deal with to avoid insufficient labor to prevent Hong Kong's development and affect people's livelihood.Under the premise of ensuring priority employment of local workers, it is an issue that the Hong Kong government cannot avoid the gap as soon as possible to fill the gap as soon as possible.
He also said that the Hong Kong government promised to make the first consideration of how to get priority employment opportunities in the issue of handling labor shortages. The big principle of the Hong Kong government's "local workers priority" is very clear.In addition, the salary of the input of workers should not be lower than the median wages of the relevant position. The Hong Kong government does not take the opportunity to introduce cheap workers.
Chen Guoji emphasized that the Hong Kong government will not rely on input workers to fill the vacancies in the market, and will continue to increase the strength of training and recruitment, improve the working environment, promote innovation and technology, improve productivity, multi -pronged approach approach, and multi -pronged approach approach.Copy manpower shortage.
He said that the Hong Kong Chief Executive has instructed the Development Bureau and the Transport and Logistics Bureau to actively examine the latest situation of human resources in related industries and consider measures to promote the development of human resources in the industry.The Hong Kong Government will continue to connect with the industry, upholds the attitude of seeking truth from facts, and jointly solve the problem of insufficient labor population, and find more ways for Hong Kong's human resources shortage.
