SNOWY: Let me use things around me as an example. The “emigration wave” from Hong Kong is a real thing, so Hong Kong is no longer the Hong Kong that used to be called a financial center. It’s more appropriate to call Hong Kong a “relic” or a “ruin” now.
Now, young people in Hong Kong who have received higher education and are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-eight, one by one, are considering leaving Hong Kong, and at least more than half of them have already left Hong Kong. Among my friends and neighbors, almost all the young people who have received higher education have left. Even the child of a friend of mine, who has exceptionally good grades and is the type of “other people’s child”, gave up taking the exam in Hong Kong and went to Canada to study a two-year associate degree, just to be able to quickly obtain Canadian citizenship. Although the child is young, she is very opinionated and said to me that she is “fleeing”, so people who are fleeing cannot be picky, and she wants to quickly settle down there and then bring her parents out to retire. In short, on the matter of leaving Hong Kong, this child believes that getting Canadian citizenship as soon as possible is more important than studying at a four-year university in Hong Kong. And I can say that most young people in Hong Kong have similar thoughts to this child on the matter of leaving Hong Kong, so even if they go out to do relatively low-level jobs, they are willing.
Although Hong Kong has a population of 7.5 million, it is also a city with a serious aging population. How many people are there between the ages of eighteen and thirty-eight? At most, one and a half million. About one-third of young people in Hong Kong can get into local universities. Even if you add the young people who go abroad to study, the young people in Hong Kong with a proper higher education background will not exceed half. That is to say, at most 700,000 young people in Hong Kong have a higher education background. It is said that nearly 300,000 young people have left Hong Kong, and the young people in Hong Kong who have the ability to leave are only these 700,000 young people with a higher education background. Do you think that 300,000 people have left now, is this an emigration wave?
By the way, the child of another friend also has very good grades and is the type who can get into the top three universities in Hong Kong 100%. When the child was in junior high school, he once said that his ambition was the financial industry. Now that he is in high school and choosing subjects, he has given up the financial direction and instead chose to study physics and chemistry. When asked what the child was thinking, the child said that he was going to study computer science because computer science is easier to immigrate. Haha, if Hong Kong children all have this kind of thinking, do you think the emigration wave in Hong Kong exists or not? The smartest children in Hong Kong have all run away, what do you say Hong Kong is left with?
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