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On the one hand, mainstream workers possessing the required knowledge and skills can benefit from the development of knowledge-based economy and become increasingly affluent.

Hong Kong is an affluent society. We are absolutely capable of and we have the conditions for making our society fairer.

Maybe, we must still wait until sometime in the future before this well-intentioned goal can be realized, but for the time being, if people belonging to different parties and groupings can be less self-centred and less confrontational on highly contentious issues, if they can be more tolerant and more concerned about the overall situation, it will not be long before we can achieve the goal.

Assistance focuses on (a) establishing legal and policy frameworks consistent with international standards and norms; (b) strengthening the capacity of domestic institutions, in particular anti-corruption bodies and criminal justice institutions, to effectively prevent and control corruption in an integrated and coordinated way; (c) enhancing integrity, accountability and transparency in public and private sectors, including the management of public resources; (d) supporting relevant Government institutions in international cooperation and the recovery of assets at the domestic and international levels; (e) development of strategic and thematic partnerships with members of the international community and United Nations system to ensure coherency in the delivery of technical assistance; and (f) supporting the establishment of networks and platforms for policy dialogue and peer learning among Member States at the regional and international levels.

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As they grow in size and wealth, cities become more difficult to police, the pickings for criminals grow bigger and bigger, while poorer neighbourhoods can become dominated by criminal gangs.

In a developed and wealthy economy, the public also expects the Government to provide some other services.

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Dr LAW considered that the short-term measures to tackle poverty problem at less well-off districts were to create employment opportunities at district level.

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This has led to the disparity between the rich and the poor. Does a wealthy society consider such a phenomenon fair, reasonable and normal?

According to the Secretary's main reply, though according to the Secretary's projection as stated in part (c), health care expenditure would increase from 3.1% of the GDP in 2001 to 5.3% of the GDP in 2030, the figure is not high when compared with the developed or well-off countries.

In the case of the United States, the country now generally considered to be economically most affluent and technologically most advanced, the Secretary of Agriculture is one of the key posts in the President's cabinet.

In addition, the ICBL noted that many efficiency issues they have raised touch upon the role of the United Nations and, in this regard, expressed appreciation for a constructive dialogue that has started in recent months between non-governmental organisations and the UN.

Chengdu is one of China's most modern and affluent cities, yet it is also rich in a history that goes back three millennia.

In paragraph 63 of his report (A/64/380), the Secretary-General provides information on a number of related initiatives being implemented concurrently with ERP within the United Nations Secretariat and missions, including: IPSAS implementation, the talent management system (recruitment and staffing), Lean Six Sigma (non-systems process improvement), enterprise content management and customer relationship management, as well as a fuel management system and a rations management system for peacekeeping functions.

However, Hong Kong is a wealthy society full of loving care for other people, and as shown in the serious floods in the past or the more recent Sichuan earthquake, we can see the strong compassion of Hong Kong people.

We should know that Hong Kong must foster good living conditions so that well-off Chinese from all over the world may come here and adopt Hong Kong as their home away from home.

As societies get more civilized and as reason is given greater importance, people become more and more contemptuous of violence as society becomes more affluent.

The occurrence of such a phenomenon reflects to some extent the affluence and material advancements of a society.

(b) secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education

The above goal cannot be achieved unless the Government is willing to take the housing policy on itself, by not only continue to provide free land but also injects money to the HA, so that the HA can be richer financially and have no need to be self-sufficient or be “moneyoriented”.

Although Hong Kong is a highly commercialized society, hawker activities are still an important part of the overall economy.

Despite these studies in economics, the Liberal Party also agrees that in an affluent society like Hong Kong, there are people who work very hard but can only earn a monthly salary of $3,000 to $4,000.

Mr President, the Liberal Party's "two-prong" proposal urges the Government to pay the elderly's welfare assistance and under such a condition, Hong Kong is able to pay without making any increase in tax, the proposal can become effective immediately and be implemented continuously.

This year Lam Kai San from the Generation Department received the Environmental Excellence Award by the project “CEM Coloane Power Plant A Lighting Electric Power Saving”, while the group from Procurement and Logistics Department Logistics and Administrative Support Premises Management won the Environmental Excellence Certificate of Merit for the project “Recycle of Cooking Oil and Industrial Oil”.

(b) secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education