This year is the third anniversary of the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law. The surveys conducted by the Hong Kong Journalists Association and the Hong Kong Foreign Press Association show that Hong Kong's journalism work environment has deteriorated.

Chen Langsheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that Hong Kong is an international financial center. If information circulation and press are freely damaged, it will affect the business environment and weaken Hong Kong's international competitiveness.

Chen Langsheng said that in recent years, Hong Kong's news environment is not good, many senior media workers have left, and the industry has serious insufficient manpower, which has affected the quality of the news.He believes that the Hong Kong government should have a tolerance and relaxation attitude towards the journalism industry and give the industry a certain interview space.

The 2022 "Press Freedom Index" announced by the Hong Kong Journalists Association on Friday (July 7) pointed out that the score of public and journalists' freedom of journalism in Hong Kong once again set a record low since the establishment of the index in 2013, 41.4 and 41.4 and respectively.25.7 points.The industry's score has declined for four consecutive years, from 40.9 points in 2018 to 25.7 points in 2022.

The main reason for the decline in scores is that the public and news practitioners interviewed both said that the media criticized the Chinese Central Government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.

The Hong Kong Records Association believes that the SAR Government, which has huge resources and public power, continuously snip different journalist workers.Later, it was publicly criticized by Hong Kong Government officials six degrees. The Ming Pao finally stopped publishing Zunzi comics in May this year, reflecting the voice of the Hong Kong government who could not accommodate the criticism. Under the relationship of inconsistent power, it would cause a cold effect in the news industry, and directly caused the effect of the news industry to directly make the effect of cicadas, and directly caused the effect of the industry to make the effect directly, and directly caused the effect of the news industry and directly caused the effect of the news industry and directly caused the effect of the news industry to directly make the effect of the industry, which directly caused the effect of the industry, and directly caused the effect of the news industry to directly make the effect of the industry.The social information that the public can receive is decreasing and more single.

The Hong Kong Records Association visited 249 journalists from March to April this year and commissioned the Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion to visit 1026 citizens in March.

The Hong Kong Foreign Press Conference published a new quarterly issue on Wednesday (July 5), which published the results of the latest release of the release of the release of the latest issue of the press. The survey was mainly to study members' opinions on Hong Kong's press freedom in the past 18 months.

The survey found that 83%of foreign journalists believe that Hong Kong's news work environment has deteriorated, and only 3%of the respondents believe that it is better. Among the 52 members who indicate that they need to contact the respondents at work, 46 people say that their news said their newsThe source is no longer willing to talk about sensitive topics, and even unwilling to interview.

In addition, 65%of the members of the interviewed said that in the past 18 months have experienced a certain degree of self -examination, an increase of nine percentage points from the last survey.At 44%in 2021, it fell to 21%this year.

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Report pointed out that before the Hong Kong National Security Law was promulgated in 2020, the Hong Kong news industry had a self -examination, but the results of the recent two surveys reflected the fear of the development of social conditions in recent years, and quoted one of the interviewees that he did not now.Will write articles about Hong Kong politics, "It's so dangerous for me."

In terms of specific security, nine members of the Hong Kong Foreign Political Conference said that they had been disturbed on the Internet and even in real life, and 73%of the respondents showed that they were very or worried about being arrested.

The Hong Kong Foreign Press Conference emphasized that supporting reporters' right to work freely without intimidation or nourishment, the association will continue to contact relevant departments to protect the freedom of news, so that Hong Kong will continue to become news and business centers in the district.Lee Williamson, the new chairman of the association, described the results of the investigation that made people worry and will pay attention to the official. The association will continue to conduct similar investigations. It is hoped that members' opinions will be faced, so that journalists can work without fear.

At present, there are 294 members of the Hong Kong Foreign Press Conference. This investigation has received a response of 66 people with a response rate of 22.5%, which is 2.5 percentage points lower than the previous survey in October 2021.