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For primary and secondary education

extending civic education to all primary and secondary levels providing induction/extension courses and school-based support services to new arrival children

improving financial assistance to needy primary and junior secondary students under the Textbook Assistance Scheme

enhancing support for Band 5 students in secondary schools

For special education

increasing school grant

integrating children with special needs in ordinary schools implementing the recommendations of the Board of Education, including the provision of additional classroom assistants and special grants

Language Proficiency

implementing the recommendations in the Education Commission Report No.6 on improvement to language proficiency of students improving teaching and learning of Putonghua in schools

"On law and order, there will be around 600 additional police officers engaged in operational front-line and road traffic enforcement and control duties. And we will invest heavily in improving our emergency ambulance service by providing over 200 additional ambulance staff, 27 additional ambulances and 11 additional ambulance aid motorcycles," Mr Kwong said.

"This impressive list of improvements in our services is made possible by our continuing economic growth. Sustained economic growth will permit further improvements in the future," he said.

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