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The Secretary for Security, Mr John Lee, and the President of the Care of Rehabilitated Offenders Association (CROA), Mr Wong Kin-keung, officiated at the Correctional Services Department’s (CSD) community education programme “Mission in Prison” opening ceremony today (January 15) at Ma Hang Prison in Stanley and witnessed the kick-off of the programme.
Introduced under the Rehabilitation Pioneer Project (RPP), “Mission in Prison” is a new programme based on the concept of escape room activity with elements of role-playing, problem-solving and team-building, which simulates various emergencies and daily situations confronted by CSD staff to bring young people the most authentic learning experience.
Incorporated with the concept of Smart Prison, “Mission in Prison” has 18 checkpoints. With the aid of smart applications on tablets, participants will become correctional officers to carry out various tasks to deter illegal activities organised by persons in custody and formulate a rehabilitative programme for them to turn over a new leaf. Through the programme, participants are expected to deepen their understanding towards the duties of CSD staff and observe from another perspective the custodial environment and livelihood so as to be aware of the dire consequences of committing crimes.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Lee said that the CSD’s RPP has consistently collaborated with many social service organisations to hold diverse activities to cultivate students’ development of positive values, sense of responsibility, and to help them become law-abiding citizens. The department upholds the belief of “correction” and “education” to lead young persons in custody to reflect, correct and equip themselves to start a new journey of life.
Mr Wong said, “This year, the CROA donated $1 million to the CSD to jointly organise ‘Mission in Prison’, providing a unique crime prevention learning experience for participants at a real prison. Educational messages are disseminated to participants during after-activity evaluation to deepen their understanding towards crime prevention and rehabilitation.” He reiterated that the CROA has all along been promoting rehabilitative messages to all sectors of society, helping persons in custody to rehabilitate in order not to repeat the same mistake, and playing a role in maintaining social order.
The CSD has earlier promoted “Mission in Prison” in different events and during school visits. More stakeholders and schools will be invited to participate in the programme. In addition, the Department will open the programme for application by teams formed by individual students on a trial basis in phases so as to reach out to more young people and cultivate positive values among them.
The CSD launched the RPP in 2008 and collaborated with various schools and social services organisations to hold diverse learning activities, including the establishment of the uniform group “Rehabilitation Pioneer Leaders” in 2018 to disseminate to young people the messages of leading a law-abiding, drug-free life and supporting the rehabilitation of offenders. The CSD hopes that they can understand the heavy price paid for committing crimes. Since the introduction of the RPP, about 70 per cent of secondary schools in Hong Kong have participated in the activities, with nearly 400,000 participants including youths and educators. Such participation rate definitely shows the wide support of society and schools. read more
The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) published today (January 15) the January 2021 issue of the “Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics” (HKMDS).
Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains two feature articles entitled “Hong Kong’s External Direct Investment Statistics, 2010 to 2019” and “The Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong Economy”.
“Hong Kong’s External Direct Investment Statistics, 2010 to 2019”
Hong Kong is an international financial centre and commercial hub. It is also a gateway to the vast market of the mainland of China (the Mainland) as well as a platform for facilitating the Mainland enterprises to gain access to the global market. External direct investment (DI) between Hong Kong and the rest of the world, including the Mainland, is very sizable. Analysis of Hong Kong’s DI statistics over the past years is useful in understanding the characteristics and trend of DI in Hong Kong.
This feature article presents the salient features of Hong Kong’s DI statistics in the past decade.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Balance of Payments Branch (2), the C&SD (Tel: 3903 7016; email: di@censtatd.gov.hk).
“The Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong Economy”
The Government has been actively pursuing economic development in order to keep up the competitive advantage of Hong Kong. The traditional Four Key Industries in Hong Kong, namely financial services, tourism, trading and logistics, and professional and producer services, have been the driving force of Hong Kong’s economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors and creating employment.
This feature article analyses the economic contribution and employment situation in respect of the Four Key Industries in 2019. Taken together, the share of the total value added of the Four Key Industries in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 56.4%, while the percentage share of total employment was 45.4%. Compared with 2018, the value added of financial services industry recorded the largest growth (+8.4%) among the four industries, with its share to the GDP increased to 21.2%. The industry employed 272 600 persons in 2019, or 7.1% of total employment.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the National Income Branch (2), the C&SD (Tel: 3903 7002; email: gdp-p@censtatd.gov.hk).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp460.jsp?productCode=B1010002).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Dissemination Section (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk). read more