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Majority of HK People Support Tung's Policy Address: Poll
A survey showed that majority of Hong Kong people support the Hong Kong SAR's Chief Executive's 2000 Policy Address, according to a telephone opinion survey commissioned by the Home Affairs Bureau of HKSAR on October 23-25.
According to a government press release on Monday, the package of initiatives proposed in the Chief Executive's 2000 Policy Address to alleviate poverty, improve the overall economic environment, upgrade education and enhance training and retraining have received support from the public.
Overall speaking, 60.9 percent of the respondents supported the measures and proposals in the 2000 Policy Address while 15.3 percent did not. On the whole, 66.4 percent of the respondents found the 2000 Policy Address acceptable while 16.4 percent considered otherwise.
The survey was conducted by the Telephone Survey Research Laboratory of Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was carried out through telephone interviews in the evenings on October 23-25. A total of 1,006 respondents aged 18 and above were successfully interviewed.They were randomly selected from the residential telephone directories.
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