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aspirations of the Hong Kong people taken into account.
5.
Questions to ask:
a)
Should the issue of political structure be given priority in the course of the drafting of the
Basic Law?
(b) Would officials at the central level and members
of the Basic Law Drafting Committee be given more opportunities to hold substantive discussions with the grass-roots level direct?
(c) According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration,
the legislature and the chief executive of Hong Kong will be selected by means of election or consultation. Would you please clarify this point, especially on the issue of direct elections?
Wong Ho (Labour)
6.
The gradual trend towards privatisation of government departments has caused a confidence crisis among the civil servants who are working in an unstable atmosphere worrying about probable curtailment of their benefits. It is therefore hoped that the future Hong Kong Government will strengthen the management of the civil service and maintain sufficient attraction of its pay scale so as to ease the worry of civil servants over their career prospect after 1997.
Lee Siu-kei (Student)
7.
We would like to see the emergence of a political framework of democracy, which is the general concept of the youth. Regarding Hong Kong in its transformation, the young generation should know more about contemporary and modern Chinese history and communication between China
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