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    <title>Highlights | The Chief Executive's 2023 Policy
Address</title>
  </info>
  <section xml:id="highlights">
    <title>Highlights</title>
    <section xml:id="uphold-the-principle-of-one-country-two-systems-and-safeguard-national-security">
      <title>Uphold the principle of &quot;One Country, Two
      Systems&quot; and safeguard national security</title>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Legislate for Article 23 of the Basic Law and complete the
            exercise in 2024
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Strive to enhance the cybersecurity of our critical
            infrastructure, including energy, telecommunications,
            transportation, and financial institutions, etc.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Promote patriotic education
          </para>
          <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Integrate patriotic education into our national
                education system
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Establish the Chinese Culture Promotion Office
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Set up two museums about our country and the war of
                resistance
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Strengthen education for school children
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="improve-governance">
      <title>Improve governance</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Set 150 indicators for specified tasks, of which 73 are new
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Fully implement the renewed district governance structure
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the Committee on the Financing of Major
            Development Projects and the Office for the Financing of
            Major Development Projects to advise on feasible investment
            and financing options
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Explore with the Guangdong Provincial Government and other
            institutions on setting up a joint investment fund to invest
            in projects with social and economic benefits in the
            Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA)
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Set up the Digital Policy Office to expedite digitalisation
            of government services and opening-up of more government
            data
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Continue to strengthen the management of civil service with
            more focus on performance, and attract talented persons to
            join the Government
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Scale up capability in coping with extreme weather, and
            adopt a pre-emptive and strategic approach
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Formulate a &quot;GBA Emergency Response and Rescue
            Operational Plan&quot; with other GBA cities to strengthen
            the region's capability of co-ordinated emergency management
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="reinforce-our-advantages-and-build-a-diversified-economy">
      <title>Reinforce our advantages and build a diversified
      economy</title>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Reinforce our status as international financial centre –
            enhance stock market liquidity, expand offshore Renminbi
            business, deepen GBA collaboration and venture into green
            finance
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Expand our global economic and trade networks and our reach
            to new markets; set up more consultant offices to attract
            businesses and investment
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Publish the Action Plan on Modern Logistics Development to
            promote smart development, modernisation, green and
            sustainability, internationalisation and facilitation of
            logistics
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Strengthen support to SMEs by providing flexible repayment
            arrangements, tapping into e-commerce, expediting digital
            transformation, and reinforcing export credit insurance
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Accelerate growth of the innovation and technology (I&amp;T)
            ecosystem
          </para>
          <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Set up the New Industrialisation Development Office to
                support development of strategic enterprises, facilitate
                upgrading and transformation of manufacturing sector and
                assist start-ups
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Establish the Hong Kong Microelectronics Research and
                Development (R&amp;D) Institute and commission the
                Microelectronics Centre to facilitate R&amp;D of
                microelectronics and industry development
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Expedite establishment of a supercomputing centre to
                foster development of artificial intelligence
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Set up a $10 billion New Industrialisation Acceleration
                Scheme to provide matching fund for promoting
                downstreamdevelopment of new industrialisation
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Develop cultural and creative industries
          </para>
          <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Establish the Cultural and Creative Industries
                Development Agency to promote the arts, culture and
                creative sectors as industries
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Inject $4.3 billion to the Film Development Fund and the
                CreateSmart Initiative
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Launch the Signature Performing Arts Programme Scheme to
                fund and nurture representative and large-scale major
                performing arts productions to be staged as long-run
                performances
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Organise the Hong Kong Fashion Design Week as a flagship
                initiative to promote Hong Kong's fashion and textile
                design brands
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Publish the Action Plan on Maritime and Port Development
            Strategy to develop Hong Kong into a leading international
            maritime centre, promote high value-added maritime services
            and facilitate GBA maritime collaboration
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Northern Metropolis as the new engine for growth
          </para>
          <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Adopt an &quot;industry-driven&quot; approach
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Integrate deeply with Shenzhen and other GBA cities
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Leverage market forces to expedite the development
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Formulate the Development Blueprint for Hong Kong's Tourism
            Industry 2.0, develop signature tourism products, and
            enhance development of cruise tourism economy
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Promote new energy transport – develop bunkering of green
            maritime fuel and supply of sustainable aviation fuel,
            formulate strategy for hydrogen development, and promote
            green transformation of public land transport
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="trawl-for-enterprises-attract-and-retain-talents">
      <title>Trawl for enterprises, attract and retain talents</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Develop a &quot;Headquarters Economy&quot; to attract
            enterprises from outside Hong Kongto set up headquarters
            and/or corporate divisions in Hong Kong; attract companies
            to re-domicile to Hong Kong
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Expatriates, including foreign staff of companies in Hong
            Kong, can travel to the Mainland on &quot;multiple-entry
            visas&quot;, with priority visa processing; entries of
            Vietnamese, Laotian and Nepalese talents are relaxed
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the physical office of Hong Kong Talent Engage,
            expand the coverage of universities under the Top Talent
            Pass Scheme, and implement the Capital Investment Entrant
            Scheme
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the Hong Kong International Legal Talents Training
            Academy and the Hong Kong International Academy Against
            Corruption, developing Hong Kong into a talent nurturing
            base
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="build-a-liveable-and-vibrant-city">
      <title>Build a liveable and vibrant city</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Generate more land and housing at a quicker pace and more
            efficiently, speed up urban renewal and unleash development
            potential
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Build about 410 000 public housing units in the next decade,
            far exceeding the demand
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the Task Force on Tackling the Issue of Subdivided
            Units (SDUs) to examine the issues and advise on way forward
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Review the policies and legislation to enhance building
            safety and management
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Enhance energy conservation and decarbonisation of
            buildings, and expand scope for resources recovery and
            recycling
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Publish the Hong Kong Major Transport Infrastructure
            Development Blueprint, enhancing the Three Railways and
            Three Major Roads proposals and pursuing new projects of two
            railways and one major road
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Construct new smart and green mass transit in East Kowloon,
            Kai Tak and Hung Shui Kiu/Ha Tsuen
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Commission the Kai Tak Sports Park, increase resources to
            upgrade the Hong Kong Sports Institute, enhance professional
            training and internship opportunities for coaches, and
            promote wider public participation in sports
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Launch the &quot;Shining City Project&quot; to enhance the
            beautification work of our city
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="promote-fertility-and-create-a-pro-childbearing-environment">
      <title>Promote fertility and create a pro-childbearing
      environment</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Provide a cash bonus of $20,000 for each newborn
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Raise the accommodation-related tax deduction ceiling for
            families with newborns to $120,000
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Introduce the Families with Newborns Flat Selection Priority
            Scheme – families with newborns will have higher balloting
            chances and priority flat selection in buying subsidised
            sale flats
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Introduce the Families with Newborns Allocation Priority
            Scheme – families with newborns will be allocated public
            rental housing flats one year earlier
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Support assisted reproductive services – enhance service
            quota in the public healthcare sector, and offer tax
            deduction for expenses on assisted reproductive services
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Increase the Working Family Allowance; increase child care
            centre places and allowance; extend the After School Care
            Programme for Pre-primary Children to cover all districts;
            and strengthen home-based child care service
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="care-for-the-elderly-foster-an-inclusive-community">
      <title>Care for the elderly
      Foster an inclusive community</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Extend the Residential Care Services Scheme in Guangdong to
            residential care homes for the elderly operated by Mainland
            organisations and expand the Residential Care Service
            Voucher Scheme, providing more options to the elderly
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Inject an additional $1 billion into the Innovation and
            Technology Fund for Application in Elderly and
            Rehabilitation Care to subsidise eligible units to procure,
            rent and trial technology products, improving quality of
            life of elderly persons and persons with disabilities
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish an Advisory Panel on Silver Economy to capture the
            business potential of the silver economy to provide better
            products and services to the elderly
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Strengthen the services of residential care homes for
            persons with disabilities and day training services, and
            provide subsidy to employed disabled CSSA recipients to
            encourage their employment
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Mobilise Care Teams to help, through visits or contacts,
            identify carers in need and refer them to support services;
            expand the network of day respite services for elderly
            persons and persons with disabilities
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish two new support service centres for ethnic
            minorities; set up Ethnic Minorities Care Teams
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Set up a dedicated fund of $500 million to support staff
            training, system enhancement and multi-disciplinary
            collaboration by welfare services organisations
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Adopt a targeted poverty alleviation strategy, and
            strengthen support for households residing in SDUs,
            single-parent households and elderly households as priority
            target groups
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Promote re-employment; increase retraining allowance; review
            the roles and functions of the Employees Retraining Board;
            and amend the &quot;continuous contract&quot; requirement to
            enhance labour protection
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="build-an-international-hub-for-post-secondary-education-promote-diversified-youth-development">
      <title>Build an international hub for post-secondary education
      Promote diversified youth development</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Double the admission quota of non-local students by
            Government-funded post-secondary institutions to 40%, and
            strengthen scholarship and related support to attract more
            overseas and Mainland students to further education in Hong
            Kong
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Develop the Northern Metropolis University Town, and
            encourage post-secondary institutions to strengthen
            co-operation with renowned Mainland and overseas
            institutions
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Facilitate establishment of universities of applied sciences
            to upgrade vocational and professional education and
            training to university level, providing an alternative path
            to success for young people aspiring to pursue a career in
            technical professions
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the Hong Kong Institute of Information Technology
            to nurture local talents in the information technology
            sector
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Take forward mutual recognition of sub-degree level
            qualifications with the Mainland
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Promote STEAM education in secondary and primary schools
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Organise the Youth Development Summit to promote youth
            development in Hong Kong
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the Alliance of Hong Kong Youth Innovation and
            Entrepreneurial Bases in the GBA as a one-stop information,
            publicity and exchange platform
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
    <section xml:id="healthy-hong-kong">
      <title>Healthy Hong Kong</title>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Set up a preparatory office for the Hong Kong Centre for
            Medical Products Regulation, moving towards the adoption of
            the &quot;primary evaluation&quot; approach in registration
            approval of new drugs and medical devices, with a view to
            accelerating launching of new drugs and promoting industry
            development
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Establish the GBA International Clinical Trial Institute in
            the Hetao Co-operation Zone to provide a one-stop clinical
            trial support platform for medical research institutions to
            expedite R&amp;D of new drugs
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Roll out the eHealth+ to deposit personalised digital health
            records and allow users to check and carry electronic health
            records and appointments on mobile phones anytime
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Reduce waiting time of stable new cases in Ear, Nose and
            Throat, and Orthopaedics and Traumatology by 10% in 2024-25
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Optimise the Psychiatry Case Management Programme of the
            Hospital Authority; launch a pilot scheme in district health
            centres to offer mental health assessment; and provide
            mental health support training for social workers and Care
            Team members
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Update the registration regimes to provide new pathways for
            admitting qualified non-locally trained dentists and nurses
            to alleviate the shortage
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Promote the development of Chinese medicine (CM), develop a
            digitalised CM drug information platform, and formulate a
            Chinese Medicine Development Blueprint
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </section>
  </section>
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