Reiterating Hong Kong’s core values

Hon Ronny TONG’s original motion: (Translation)

That Hong Kong has always taken pride in its core values such as diversity, harmony, love for peace and kind-heartedness, etc., but a series of recent incidents involving ‘doubly non-permanent resident pregnant women’, self-drive tour, D&G and talks about ‘locusts’ and ‘dogs’, etc. have progressively intensified conflicts between mainlanders and Hong Kong people, and there are signs of gradual growth of China-Hong Kong confrontation and mutual animosity; in this connection, this Council urges the Government to expeditiously adopt the following contingency measures, so as to eliminate the confrontational sentiments between the masses on the Mainland and in Hong Kong, and address the problems arising from the cultural differences between the two places:

(a) to allocate additional resources for improving obstetric services, suspend the quota for ‘doubly non-permanent resident pregnant women’, and accord priority to addressing the needs of local pregnant women;

(b) to step up law enforcement and enhance entry restrictions to comprehensively block the entry of ‘doubly non-permanent resident pregnant women’; and

(c) to shelve the self-drive tour plan for mainlanders’ vehicles

Motion as amended by Dr Hon LEUNG Ka-lau: (Translation)

That all along, Hong Kong has always taken pride in its core values such as diversity, harmony, love for peace and kind-heartedness, etc., but a series of recent incidents involving ‘doubly non-permanent resident pregnant women’, self-drive tour, D&G and talks about ‘locusts’ and ‘dogs’, etc. have progressively intensified conflicts between mainlanders and Hong Kong people, and there are signs of gradual growth of China-Hong Kong confrontation and mutual animosity; in this connection, this Council urges the Government to expeditiously adopt the following contingency measures, so as to eliminate the confrontational sentiments between the masses on the Mainland and in Hong Kong, and address the problems arising from the cultural differences between the two places:

(a) to allocate additional resources for improving obstetric services, suspend the quota for ‘doubly non-permanent resident pregnant women’, and accord priority to addressing the needs of local pregnant women;

(b) to step up law enforcement and enhance entry restrictions to comprehensively block the entry of ‘doubly non-permanent resident pregnant women’; and

(c)(a) to shelve the self-drive tour plan for mainlanders’ vehicles;

(b) to study amending Article 24 of the Basic Law to avoid the automatic entitlement to the right of abode in Hong Kong by Hong Kong-born children whose parents are both non-permanent Hong Kong resident Chinese citizens, so that the Government can formulate its own policy on mainlanders coming to Hong Kong for settlement;

(c) to assess the demands arising from population growth in the next 30 years, project the numbers of mainland immigrants that Hong Kong can accommodate in the long run, thereby making plans for social resources;

(d) to amend the Race Discrimination Ordinance to broaden the definition of ‘race’, so as to ensure that mainland Chinese coming to Hong Kong are subject to no discrimination, thus enabling the Ordinance to have a wider ambit while closely following the requirements of the relevant international convention; and

(e) to enhance civic education so that the community can resolve China-Hong Kong conflicts in a rational manner.

Note: Dr Hon LEUNG Ka-lau’s amendment is marked in bold and italic type or with deletion line.