Property News · November 14, 2016

Hong Kong 2030 Plus: is it really planning or just guesswork?


In many ways the most important element to get right in any forward planning exercise is the population figures.
As the Hong Kong 2030 Plus consultation document states, figures from the Census and Statistics Department predict that Hong Kong’s population will peak at 8.22 million in 2043 and decline from there as the full impacts of an ageing population and smaller family sizes take hold, just as they have in Japan.
Yet at the conclusion of the document, the government, without any…

Source : South China Morning Post
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