Worries Over Hongkongers Being Replaced by Mainland Chinese

Current affairs commentator Anthony Tso said that the lack of labor in many sectors in Hong Kong would prompt the authority to import labor from mainland China. He said there is now a manpower surplus in mainland China, and the authority of the Guangdong Province (in Southern China) has already demanded 300,000 youngsters to move from the urban areas to the countryside to solve the jobless problem in China’s cities.

Tso asked satirically, “If you were to choose (somewhere to go), would you prefer the mountains and countryside (in mainland China) or Hong Kong?”

He thus predicts that Hong Kong’s population structure will turn upside down, with many Hongkongers being replaced by mainland Chinese.

For the sectors lacking workers or set to have labor importation, most of their imported workforce is expected to come from mainland China.

RFI reported that The Legislative Council passed a non-binding motion on April 20 to urge the Hong Kong government to replenish the Hong Kong workforce in multiple ways, including allowing mainland China workers to cross the border to Hong Kong for work and return to their China homes after work each day.

The acute manpower shortage is also caused by massive emigration after Hong Kong’s freedom and human rights have been significantly undermined following the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law in 2020.

It has been reported that there has been an estimated outflow of 140,000 people from the Hong Kong workforce in the past two years amid the emigration wave.

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