The Hong Kong government has successively withdrawn funding applications involving three universities, including the University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong and PolyU, and responded to the relevant disputes at the Legislative Council Finance Committee held this morning (29th).
According to the Hong Kong Bus News on November 29, the Hong Kong Government's Director-General for Financial Affairs and Treasury Affairs Liu Yixiang pointed out that since different members of parliament have proposed to the Hong Kong government for to pay attention to on funding, the latter needs more time to lobby and explain.
He said that the project was only temporarily withdrawn, not to be withdrawn, and would be re-added to the agenda in the future, and emphasized that the practice was not aimed at individual universities or university academic circles.
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This month, the Hong Kong Government's Financial Affairs and Treasury Bureau wrote to the Legislative Council Finance Committee, deciding to withdraw the funding projects for the renovation and construction of medical buildings in CUHK and Hong Kong, totaling more than HK$250 million (1 Hong Kong dollar is approximately RMB 0.9).
SAR Government said at the time that it was reported that some MPs were concerned about for two medical teaching facilities projects, so they decided to withdraw the funding. In order to give the Food and Health Bureau more time to explain to the MPs, they will strive to submit the funding to to the Finance Committee as soon as possible within this legislative year.
two allocations were affected, including HK$59.7 million for the construction of a teaching and research complex in Tai Po District 39, and HK$194.3 million for the improvement of facilities and development of the Medical College campus of HK$194.3 million.
This is also the third time that the SAR government has suspended university engineering project funding in two weeks. The SAR Government was originally scheduled to temporarily withdraw the application for funding for the expansion project of the Hong Kong PolyU on the 15th of this month on the grounds that "more time to explain" was required. By the 19th of this month, it was said that the Hong Kong PolyU needs to review the project schedule due to recent incidents. Another HK$340 million allocation for the expansion of the Hong Kong PolyU Library was drawn.
Source | Observer Network Comprehensive
