(Hong Kong News) The Hong Kong media survey found that the eight funding universities in Hong Kong have a mainland background teaching staff. The number is the first time that the information has surpassed local teachers. Some scholars worry that the long -term ratio of imbalance will weaken local academic research.

The Hong Kong Ming Pao Monday (September 25) reported that the reporter inquired with the latest national information of the eight university teachers to the Education Funding Committee of the University of Hong Kong and found that there were 1,815 teachers in the eight universities in Hong Kong in the 2022/23 school year, which was 2021/2021/The 1592 people in the 22nd school year increased by 14%; the local teachers in Hong Kong were reduced from 1722 to 1,670 in the same period.According to the proportion, mainland scholars have increased to 35%, and Hong Kong scholars have fallen to 33%. It is the first time that the mainland teachers have been more than Hong Kong faculty members since the nationality of the eight university instructor in the 2017/18 academic year.

According to the data analysis of various universities, mainland teachers with rational, Lingda, and Hong Kong University have increased their most year, with an increase of more than 15%. The increase in Hong Kong Polytechnic University is nearly 30%;scholar.

Mai Caicai, an associate professor of the Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance of Hong Kong Baptist University, said that it is a natural phenomenon to hire more mainland teachers, but most of the current business scientists are non -Hong Kong people.He is good at studying local economic and financial issues in Hong Kong. "

Li Zhaobo, a honorary teaching and research person in the Asia -Pacific Business Institute of Business School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, believes that due to the influence of the China -US wrestling, it is difficult for mainland scholars to apply for visas in Europe and the United States. In addition, Hong Kong's low tax rate and government -grabbed talent measures have made a lot ofReturn scholars choose to go to Hong Kong.He said that mainland scholars have excellent academic performance, but they are worried that the background of long -term teachers will be unbalanced, which will affect the international ranking of universities in Hong Kong.