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Mr. LIU (in Cantonese): Sir, the young people of today will become our successors tomorrow. Therefore, any government that has an eye on the future will attach a great deal of importance to the development and the growth of our young people. In
May 1986, the Government set up the Central Committee on Youth
ascertaining an objective ở
to conduct a review with purpose to find whether we
will need a youth policy in Hong Kong. This has shown the
sincerity and farsightedness of the Government. Within a short
spand of eighteen months, the Central Committee on Youth has completed two
finished three surveys on the young people here, and has also
made conducted comparisons and analysis of the youth policy in ten
countries.
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different regions. The exhaustiveness of the Committee is indeed admirable. In the past, Hong Kong did not have a youth policy, but all along, we have been paying much attention to the growth and development of our young people. We have
devoted much financial resources to provide for our young
people in areas such as education, employment, recreation and
all- social welfare so that they can have a rounded growth. The [The growth of our young people involves a wide scope of problems. In fact, a lot of Government departments, in varying degrees, 21 are already doing things which are closely related to a
young people's policy, and a lot of voluntary agencies have
The already made our young people their servicing target. problem now is to coordinate our existing work and resources and to seek for further development so that our young people will have a more comprehensive development and so that we will
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degree, but the Commissions will only be advisory, it will not have any executive power. In fact, the committee has suggested that in order not to have overlapping of work at the pistrict level, there is no need to have District Youth Committees. This is, of course, a wise decision because the Committee understands that the existing Central and pistrict systems