2015年06月17日
the fourth time in my lifetime
I never believed the numbers of wives and mistresses colleagues described – literally hundreds of thousands. After all, global polls on sexuality around the world described Hong Kong couples as the least busy lovers in the world.
But I was mistaken. And two decades later, the fruits of these cross-boundary trysts have literally reshaped Hong Kong society. They have shown for perhaps the fourth time in my lifetime that Hong Kong’s population planners, who build population projections painstakingly on the basis of steadily falling birth rates, are profoundly wrong and wasting their time.
In short, Hong Kong’s population never has been – and probably will not in my lifetime be – determined by birth rates. It has been driven by one force, and one force alone: migration.
The scale of the “family reunion” migration – embodied in the policy allowing 150 one-way permits to be issued daily, and introduced in 1995 – is bigger than most people imagine. The numbers are remarkable. Since 1995, a total of 1.32 million people – most of them young women married to significantly older Hong Kong men – have come into Hong Kong under the one-way permit scheme.
That is 18 per cent of Hong Kong’s 7.2 million population. Since arrival, many have raised young families, making their share of our population even greater.
Demographically, this immigrant community matches a very specific stereotype: women now in their 30s and 40s who arrived in Hong Kong marrying a man a decade or two older than them. 讓人有衝動去揭開並一探究竟
適用於流產後貧血或血象偏低等。
三千年前的一個婚禮上?
為他做完該做的事
情歌悠悠揚揚,寧靜的自然中
如数家珍那么的土豪绅……
人生,就是一場修行
End of fossil fuel era?
The scientific method is supposed
此生最美的疼痛。惟願安好!
But I was mistaken. And two decades later, the fruits of these cross-boundary trysts have literally reshaped Hong Kong society. They have shown for perhaps the fourth time in my lifetime that Hong Kong’s population planners, who build population projections painstakingly on the basis of steadily falling birth rates, are profoundly wrong and wasting their time.
In short, Hong Kong’s population never has been – and probably will not in my lifetime be – determined by birth rates. It has been driven by one force, and one force alone: migration.
The scale of the “family reunion” migration – embodied in the policy allowing 150 one-way permits to be issued daily, and introduced in 1995 – is bigger than most people imagine. The numbers are remarkable. Since 1995, a total of 1.32 million people – most of them young women married to significantly older Hong Kong men – have come into Hong Kong under the one-way permit scheme.
That is 18 per cent of Hong Kong’s 7.2 million population. Since arrival, many have raised young families, making their share of our population even greater.
Demographically, this immigrant community matches a very specific stereotype: women now in their 30s and 40s who arrived in Hong Kong marrying a man a decade or two older than them. 讓人有衝動去揭開並一探究竟
適用於流產後貧血或血象偏低等。
三千年前的一個婚禮上?
為他做完該做的事
情歌悠悠揚揚,寧靜的自然中
如数家珍那么的土豪绅……
人生,就是一場修行
End of fossil fuel era?
The scientific method is supposed
此生最美的疼痛。惟願安好!
perfectly adapted for a life of extremes
traumatic early childhood experiences
false documents and dead-letter drops.
"top ad spending companies"
he had security in the future
the Chinese Communist Party,
traumatic early childhood experiences
false documents and dead-letter drops.
"top ad spending companies"
he had security in the future
the Chinese Communist Party,
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