Lee stated the attention day was significantly significant for town this yr, because it marked the tenth anniversary of the holistic strategy to nationwide safety put ahead by Chinese language President Xi Jinping, and it was additionally the primary to be held after the Safeguarding Nationwide Safety Ordinance took impact final month.
“The prevailing geopolitics have turn out to be more and more advanced, and nationwide safety dangers and threats stay imminent. The means taken to hazard nationwide safety can are available many alternative kinds and persist, and the menace can emerge abruptly,” Lee stated.
“The general public ought to stay vigilant. The Safeguarding Nationwide Safety Ordinance requires [the city] to advertise nationwide safety schooling and to lift the attention of abiding by the regulation by public communication, steerage, supervision and regulation.”
He stated the actions organised by the Nationwide Safety Committee would assist elevate consciousness and the sense of accountability to guard the nation’s security, which might remind residents to remain alert.
Xia attended the ceremony in individual final yr, telling the viewers that Hongkongers might select different methods to precise their views as an alternative of staging protests, and that voicing opinions was not contradictory to the safety of nationwide safety.
The Beijing level man additionally suggested residents to focus extra on financial growth, whereas staying vigilant as anti-China forces have been nonetheless seeking to return and the 2019 anti-government protests had left “an indelible scar”.
Professor Lau Siu-kai, a advisor at semi-official Beijing assume tank the Chinese language Affiliation of Hong Kong and Macau Research, agreed that this yr’s consciousness day was particularly important.
“With the passage of the Safeguarding Nationwide Safety Ordinance, this yr marks the primary time that Hong Kong has a whole set of legal guidelines and mechanisms in defending nationwide safety after town’s return to the motherland,” Lau stated.
Legislators unanimously handed the regulation final month, quick monitoring the constitutionally required laws underneath Article 23 of the Primary Regulation that had been shelved for greater than twenty years due to preliminary public opposition.
The laws enhances the nationwide safety regulation imposed by Beijing in 2020 after anti-government protests rocked town in 2019.
Western international locations have accused authorities of harming the rights and freedoms of Hongkongers by enacting the most recent regulation.
Noting the assaults, Lau stated: “The event will showcase Hong Kong folks’s help for the ordinance and unity behind safeguarding nationwide safety.
“It additionally supplies a great alternative for selling nationwide safety schooling.”
Ex-Hong Kong police chief tells younger folks previous exhibits want for nationwide safety
Ex-Hong Kong police chief tells younger folks previous exhibits want for nationwide safety
He confused the necessity to remind residents to protect towards threats to nationwide safety, regardless of the much less turbulent scenario lately.
“The nation remains to be going through critical nationwide safety threats stemming from the US-led West’s continued dedication to comprise and hurt China.
“Hong Kong remains to be a helpful pawn to the West on this respect, significantly within the monetary, cyber and ideological spheres,” Lau stated.
Dr Hung Wing-lok, a political scientist on the Chinese language College of Hong Kong’s school of social science, additionally stated: “The big scale of [the education] day is symbolic in the way in which that the federal government is not shy to speak in regards to the nationwide safety situation overtly [within the context of] metropolis growth.”
However he famous that other than staging occasions and exhibits all year long, the federal government also needs to dedicate extra efforts to growing the economic system to make sure town’s prosperity.
“It’s potential for the variety of extremists to extend particularly if the economic system is in poor form, which might pose a menace to nationwide safety,” Hung stated.
What does Article 23 imply as Hong Kong ushers in nationwide safety regulation?
What does Article 23 imply as Hong Kong ushers in nationwide safety regulation?
However he added it was “exhausting for the federal government to advertise nationwide safety schooling when town is comparatively peaceable”.
The concept to host an schooling day might be traced again to April 15, 2014, when President Xi put ahead the concept of adopting a holistic strategy to guard the nation’s security on the first assembly of the Nationwide Safety Fee.
On July 1 the next yr , the nation’s prime legislative physique handed the Nationwide Safety Regulation of China, with April 15 designated as the attention day.
Noticed nationally, the day goals to lift public consciousness about nationwide safety, create a optimistic environment of defending the nation’s security and improve the capability to forestall and avert dangers.
Hong Kong launched its first Nationwide Safety Schooling Day on April 15, 2021, a yr after Beijing imposed the safety regulation on town.
Hong Kong pupils to listen to about Xi’s safety focus, Article 23 on consciousness day
Hong Kong pupils to listen to about Xi’s safety focus, Article 23 on consciousness day
This yr, the federal government has deliberate greater than 30 neighborhood actions throughout town’s 18 districts.
On Monday morning , a flag-raising ceremony shall be held on the Hong Kong Police Faculty in Wong Chuk Grasp.
Residents may also be capable of see a bus parade in Yau Tsim Mong, take pleasure in a singing contest at Kwong Ming Ying Loi Faculty in Yuen Lengthy and witness a flag-raising ceremony at Reunification Backyard in Sheung Shui, amongst different occasions.
Some actions are being held over the weekend, with occasions on Sunday together with a sports activities day at Siu Sai Wan Sports activities Centre, a carnival at Victoria Park and a range present with a drawing competitors at Sai Lau Kok Backyard.
Eight disciplined and auxiliary providers are holding open days at their coaching faculties, headquarters or divisional premises over the weekend to mark the event.
