Houses are deep -seated issues in Hong Kong. All sectors of society have always had different views on how to solve the problem of citizens' residence.Former Chief Executive Liang Zhenying and the current Chief Executive Li Jiachao have recently rarely "separated" on land supply issues.
In the past few years, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has been speeding up in land construction in the past few years, and has taken the initiative to find a large number of land to build housing, hoping to solve the living problem of long -term trouble in Hong Kong people as soon as possible.However, on October 24, Liang Zhenying suddenly published a post entitled "Be careful to prevents overweight" in social media. It is mentioned that Hong Kong maps have been drawn a lot of new development zones in recent years. They have questioned whether there are so many demand in the future?He pointed out that the more the land and house supply are not as good as possible. We must try to be balanced as much as possible, and the consequences of warning over -righteous will be very serious.
As soon as the article came out, it immediately stirred up thousands of waves, causing heated discussion among politicians.Li Jiachao finally opened up last Tuesday (October 29), in response to the healthy development of the housing market, the dominant power must be in the hands of the government, otherwise the dominance of the land will become the control of "interest barriers". ThisIt does not meet the interests of Hong Kong.The Hong Kong media explicitly described that the Li Jiachao's response was very important, and it seemed to be "separated from the air" with Liang Zhenying.
After you came to me, after you came to me, all sectors of Hong Kong thought that Liang Zhenying and Li Jiachao's debate will temporarily discuss.Unexpectedly, Liang Zhenying posted a post on social media again last Wednesday (October 30), questioning that if the supply of land and houses, if the more, the better, and the cost, should you draw a few more reclamation areas on the map?
Liang Zhenying also metaphorized: "You must put sugar in cooked sugar water, but do you have more sugar? The better you buy, the better? The family often cooks sugar water, do the kitchen store 10 pounds of sugar?"
Last Friday (November 1), Liang Zhenying posted a post on social media for the third time, emphasizing that land planning should be grasped and comprehensive thoughts, describing "the circle lines on the map are not free", "from the reason for it", "by the reason", ""It is difficult to turn to frugality, and also ask if the special zone government appears deficit continuously," Is it a significant increase in taxes like Britain? "
In the return of Hong Kong, there are five chief executives. In addition to Li Jiachao, the previous four chief executives were Dong Jianhua, Zeng Yinquan, Liang Zhenying, and Lin Zhengyue. After leaving office, most of them performed low -key and rarely expressed specific opinions on Hong Kong's internal affairs.After Liang Zhenying stepped down, he sometimes put forward his own views on the government's administration, but most of them support government policies and rarely do not bite strings with the Hong Kong government.
This time Liang Zhenying issued a three -degree document, questioning the land development plan of the current government, which caused people in the politics of Hong Kong.After all, in addition to being the former chief executive of Hong Kong, Liang Zhenying is currently also vice chairman of the Chinese CPPCC. He is ranked among the leaders of the country and has a special identity.Many people think that Li Jiachao and Liang Zhenying seem to be in conflict.
In recent years, it is difficult for Hong Kong people to buy a business as a major source of complaints.Beijing officials have always asked the Hong Kong government to vigorously increase the number of land and residential units. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Office, issued a "farewell house" order in 2021, hoping that the Hong Kong government will resolve this deep contradiction.This year's SAR Government also cooperates very well to find land to build houses, including the development of the northern metropolitan area, and the promotion of the research on the reclamation of Jiaizhou.
However, the world has changed. In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people have moved to overseas. In addition, the Hong Kong government has launched a large number of transitional houses. The shortage of houses in Hong Kong has been relieved.Some institutions who support Liang Zhenying's views are worried that not only the property market is sluggish, but also the Hong Kong government's fiscal deficit for many years, and the reserves have fallen to less than HK $ 600 billion (S $ 101.7 billion).In the future, the two projects in the northern metropolitan area and Tomorrow will cost more than 3.5 trillion Hong Kong dollars.There are more and more related expenses in the Hong Kong government, and sooner or later will empty the warehouse.
But from the perspective of Li Jiachao's government, it is not unreasonable to continue to build land.Because building land is not equal to land supply, sugar -free can be bought immediately, and the land is not said.The current speed of land building in Hong Kong still lags behind social needs.As a responsible government, there is no reason to slow down the pace of land building because of the momentary financial fluctuations. Instead, we should insist on building land to establish land reserves, so as not to promote land in the market for shortage of land.
In fact, there is a lesson in this aspect.After the financial turmoil broke out in Hong Kong in 1997, property prices fell every year.In 2002, Sun Mingyang, the director of the Land Administration Bureau, announced the launch of nine stable property market policies based on the downturn of the property market, including cancellation of auction land, termination of public housing and suspension of housing.The following year, Hong Kong's outbreak of Shas, dragging down the property prices in Hong Kong to further fall, plugged in the bottom of the valley, and then rebounded significantly, showing that "Sun Jiuzhao" played its power.
Although "Sun Jiuzhao" has successfully increased the transaction of the Hong Kong property market, the supply of housing has been greatly reduced, resulting in long -term supply in the residential market in Hong Kong, the rise in property prices, and the extension of the waiting period for public housing applicants.It has a negative impact on society.Therefore, the views of Liang Zhenying and Li Jiachao have their own viewers, and they have formed two public opinion forces in society.
But from the remarks of Liang Zhenying and Li Jiachao, the general direction of the two in the construction of land and houses is not different, but everyone pays attention to the focus.Liang Zhenying is the best attention to the fiscal risks derived from the property market, while Li Jiachao values long -term people's livelihood.
In any case, the current and ex -chief executives have confronted the land issues. To some extent, it also reflects that all walks of life in Hong Kong have a great view of housing policies.Officials may have to carry out social debates on land development again.
