Chapter 522 Everyone Has Their Own Home!

17:30 pm.

Yang Ming, Zhou Kaixuan, and Lin Dezhong drove to the Governor's Mansion.

The Rolls-Royce just arrived at the door of the Governor's Mansion.

Mr. and Mrs. MacLehose have come out to greet them.

Yang Ming, Zhou Kaixuan, and Lin Dezhong got out of the car and went in with Mr. and Mrs. MacLehose.

At this time, it was already dinner time.

In the dining room of the Governor's Mansion.

Yang Ming, Zhou Kaixuan, Lin Dezhong, Mr. and Mrs. MacLehose finished dinner first.

Yang Ming and MacLehose went to his study to talk about this trip.

"Sir Yang, I really admire you for going to Kowloon Walled City."

In the third year of his tenure as Governor, he first established ICAC to solve the problems caused by the Chinese Chief Inspector and the white Superintendent.

He began to send people to sweep the Kowloon Walled City that year.

It lasted from 1973 to 1974, and many people were investigated at that time. However, after Sir left Kowloon Walled City, Kowloon Walled City returned to its previous situation, and it was even worse.

From then on, MacLehose didn't want to care about that no-man's land anymore.

Originally, Yang Ming was awarded the title of Justice of the Peace this time because of Sir Yang's influence.

According to Sir Yang's influence, he could have been awarded the title of Justice of the Peace in 1978.

It was not until last year that Sir Yang was awarded the title of Justice of the Peace by the Governor's Office this year after he was awarded the title of Justice of the Peace by the Queen.

Sir Yang inspected the Kowloon Walled City as a Justice of the Peace.

Sir Yang's inspection of the Kowloon Walled City has already been on the news. MacLehose had already seen it in the afternoon.

"Mr. Governor, I have heard about the situation in the Kowloon Walled City for a long time and have always been curious. It was only today that I actually went to see it for the first time. After seeing it, I was very shocked."

Yang Ming told the situation in the Kowloon Walled City.

MacLehose was of course aware of it, but he was powerless.

In particular, with more new immigrants from the country coming in, many people poured into the Kowloon Walled City.

Many of these people are illegal immigrants, and even don't have Hong Kong ID cards, so what are their identities?

Whether they belong to the country or Hong Kong, Mai Lihao doesn't know.

"Sir Yang, how do you want to deal with it?"

"As for the situation in Kowloon Walled City, I have seen the following points for them."

Including Yang Ming's proposal to establish more primary schools, middle schools, and technical schools.

"Mr. Governor, for these, I am not only targeting those children in Kowloon Walled City who have not studied, but also many children who immigrated to Hong Kong. For these, I hope that they can be 100% enrolled in school, so as to prevent more of these children from becoming idle hooligans or going astray."

Mai Lihao nodded.

He also supports education.

"Sir Yang, I am very supportive of education. In this regard, I can ask the Governor's Office to support part of it financially."

Hong Kong's education is not 100%, some are in public schools, and more are in private schools.

Some private schools, like aristocratic schools, are attended by children from Hong Kong's middle class or wealthy families.

There are also some wealthy people who support or temporarily live in the name of hometown associations, and these may not charge any tuition.

In other words, the Governor's Office really supports only those public schools.

In 1978, MacLehose implemented a nine-year free education policy, and all children aged 6 to 15 must receive education.

Today, the primary and secondary education plan proposed by Yang Ming, and even technical schools, are still very large in scale.

As the Governor's Office, it can only support part of it, and the rest can only be raised by the Empire Group itself.

"In addition to basic education, I plan to establish three higher private universities in Hong Kong."

When MacLehose learned that Sir Yang invested 100 million US dollars to establish Oriental University, Oriental Polytechnic University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, MacLehose was shocked and speechless.

Today, there are several universities, but with the rapid increase in Hong Kong's population, it is still far from enough in his opinion.

What MacLehose did not expect was that Sir Yang actually supported three universities at one time and invested 300 million US dollars, which is nearly 2 billion Hong Kong dollars. I am afraid that only Sir Yang in Hong Kong has the ability to do these things.

The Governor's Office also supports Yang Ming's investment in higher private universities, but hopes to communicate with Country Y.

Yang Ming said: "Mr. Governor, I hope that when these three universities are established, the educational model of Country Y's universities can be introduced, including introducing professors from famous universities such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Imperial College, and London College in Country Y to teach in these three universities."

Recruiting professors from these universities was originally part of Yang Ming's plan.

This also needs to be communicated with London.

Mai Lihao was a little surprised.

At this time, they regarded Yang Ming as their own, and education was originally very important to them. In their view, this was also part of them.

"Sir Yang, I fully support it."

After hearing what Mai Lihao said, Yang Ming knew that apart from these. The rest, including the water supply and electricity problems in Kowloon Walled City, were nothing.

That is, it was about the housing problem of ordinary income groups in Kowloon Walled City.

In the mid-1970s, some middle-class citizens did not want to live in poor quality public housing but were unable to afford to buy private housing. In view of this, MacLehose launched the "Home Ownership Scheme" in 1978.

However, now those are the real low-income class in Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands of ordinary-income class living in cage houses.

Because it conflicts with the interests of Hong Kong real estate developers, and the Hong Kong economy is hijacked by the real estate industry, MacLehose really has no way to solve it.

"Sir Yang, I really can't help you with what you said."

The housing problem of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people?

How to solve it?

For example, the rent of public housing is also very high, which is not affordable for those living in cage houses.

The middle class in Hong Kong looks down on public housing and cannot afford high-end luxury houses, so the home ownership proposed by MacLehose came into being.

In 1978, the first batch of home ownership housing estates were officially launched. They were Kwai Chung Yue Lai Court, Kwun Tong Shun Chi Court, Chai Wan Shan Cui Court, Ho Man Tin Chun Man Court, Aberdeen Yu Hui Court and Sha Tin Sui Wo Court. At that time, the selling price of these units was about 120,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Even 120,000 Hong Kong dollars is of course a lot of money for those living in cage houses. Therefore, for this part of people, Mai Lihao really has no way to deal with it, and there are too many interests involved.

Now, Sir Yang actually brought it up with him.

"Sir Yang, you also know that the gap between the rich and the poor in Hong Kong is very large, the rich are very rich, and the poor are very poor, but the hundreds of thousands of residents living in cage houses are basically new immigrants. It is difficult for me to solve these problems for them."

In Yang Ming's opinion, among the many governors in Hong Kong, Mai Lihao is indeed a relatively capable governor, but there are so many interests involved that he really can't solve them.

Chapter 3!

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