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Editorial : Tear down old walls and rebuild new HK

【明報專訊】THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT will deliver its last policy address today (October 6). Two main focuses will be on dealing with the land and housing issue and Hong Kong's integration into the bigger picture of national development. Thanks to the dramatic changes in Hong Kong's political situation over the past two years, the original setting of the city's system is already gone. To plan vital reconstruction after the radical destruction, what the city needs is policies, determination and actions. One should not indulge in empty talk or be content with personal good feelings simply because of the city's return to a stable condition now. Whether the new policy address is prescribing the right remedy is something that needs to be examined from the perspective of tearing down old walls and rebuilding the new city. The authorities have to be far-sighted when dealing with the sore points here and now, trying their best to achieve immediate results. Merely having a grand but empty blueprint is not enough to achieve big results. Be it the waiting time for public rental housing, the streamlining of the procedures for developing land or the development of the northern New Territories, the authorities must set clear targets and concrete timetables for implementation.

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