HONG KONG: SOCIAL PROGRAMMES
The Governor is tackling Hong Kong's social problems energetically and with increasing success. In particular there are wide-ranging plans for improvements in housing, medical and health services, and education.
(HOUSING)
Nearly two million people, 44% of the population, are already living in subsidised public housing. There is an
ambitious ten-year programme to build public housing for another 1.5 million people. Though financial constraints might delay the programme from time to time, it is designed, together with the private sector's expected contribution, to break the back of
Hong Kong's housing problem.
(MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES)
The Hong Kong Government plans considerable improvement and expansion of Hong Kong's medical services under a ten-year programme. The main proposals are for building four new hospitals and more clinics, and for regionalisation of these services.
It
is also intended to provide a secondary medical school at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a dental school at the Hong Kong University.
(EDUCATION)
A recent White Paper set out the Hong Kong Government's plans for the development of secondary education over the next decade. One aim is to provide /education up to the age of fourteen for all children by 1979. A second objective is the provision by the same year of sufficient secondary places in Government schools for 40% of the 15-16 age group.
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