Votes sought for top 10 HK governance stories
Hong Kong people are invited to vote for the news coverage that best captured the special administrative region government’s governance this year, as the annual city-wide voting campaign for Hong Kong’s top news on governance began on Tuesday.
Co-hosted by 24 media groups in the city including the Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group and China Daily Asia Pacific, the campaign will see the 10 best governance news stories selected from 20 items presented by local media.
The deadline for the voting is Jan 14; results will come out on Jan 19.
Ouyang Xiaoqing, general manager of Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group, said each of the 20 participating works illustrated the life of Hong Kong people, the relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland, and the long-term development of the city.
On the voting website (top10.wenweipo.com), participating works include stories about President Xi Jinping’s inspection visit to Hong Kong in July, the co-location arrangement for Hong Kong’s express rail terminus, the extra HK$3.6 billion education funding for local schools, and the local legislation of the National Anthem Law.
Ouyang vowed on behalf of all the organizers that he would observe media ethics and uphold an impartial and balanced attitude to fully and faithfully illustrate all aspects concerning government governance to the public.
The campaign celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, with 65 supporting organizations and more than 100 participating schools.
Joe Wong Chi-cho, director of Information Services Department who attended the launching ceremony, said in the past 20 years the voting has given Hong Kong people opportunities to be part of the government, monitoring its governance and policymaking.
Meanwhile, the government has managed to collect valuable public opinions through the selection results each year, helping to tailormake policies that best reflect Hong Kong people’s interests.
He said Hong Kong is facing more and more challenges at the moment and people’s expectations of the government are rising. The government will continue to solve people’s problems with the principles of “innovation, interaction and collaboration”, Wang noted.
Li Haitang, deputy head of the publicity department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong SAR, also attended the ceremony.
The campaign was first held in Hong Kong by Wen Wei Po and the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce in 1998.
In the past 20 years the voting has given Hong Kong people opportunities to be part of the government, monitoring its governance and policymaking.”
Joe Wong Chi-cho,