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MEETING POINT
MEETING POINT CORE PLATFORM
1991 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTION
To Improve People Quality Of Life
1. Adopt effective measures to curb inflation, including freezing or controlling increase of
public utilities' charges and increase of indirect tax.
2. Strengthen actions to combat triad activities and organised crimes so as to maintain
social order.
3. Increase income tax allowance and link it with the inflation rate; increase the number
of tax bands and widen the income differentials between the bands.
4.
Establish central health insurance scheme and central retirement benefits scheme.
5. Review the scheme of control for public utilities so that the concerned corporations are
prevented from transferring the cost of mismanagement of to the consumers.
6. Implement the "polluters pay principle" with appropriate legislation to ensure that companies, organisations or individuals who pollute the environment should pay for the social cost of environmental pollution.
To Develop The Economy
7. Support the construction of a new airport. The cost of the project may be financed by fiscal reserves, private investment and government bonds on a 4:4:2 ratio. Call for further dialogue between the Chinese and the British governments. Demand that the Hong Kong government publish a green paper to collate public opinions which should form the basis for resolving the differences between the Chinese and British governments.
8. Set up committees to review economic development strategies and taxation policies. 9. Provide tax incentive for research and development and the adoption of high technology; encourage Hong Kong's manufacturing and service industries to move upmarket and lessens dependence on labour.
10. Strengthen vocational training so as to enhance labour productivity and ease the problem of shift in occupation. For individual trades or professions which require the importation of labour from outside Hong Kong, the three parties -- labour, employers, and the government should consult and cooperate to search for a mutually acceptable solution.
To Promote Public Participation
11. Enhance the representativeness of the Board of Directors or the mangagement authorities of the publicly-funded public utilities by having elected councillors and grassroot representatives as their members. Set up consumer consultative bodies to reflect the consumers' interests.
12. Set up Human Rights Commission and promote human rights education.
13. Set up an independent Elections Commission to review the definition of constituencies
and the voting methods of the elections.
14. Abolish the appointed seats on the Municipal Councils and the District Boards.
15. Lower the minimum qualified voting age to 18.
留港改革
致力民生
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