HONG KONG LEADER MULLS CIVIL SERVICE ACADEMY PROMOTING INNOVATIVE THINKING
August 1st, 2017
Attention, Hong Kong bureaucrats! Study hard to become less bureaucratic!
When Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Chief Executive of the former British colony, announced she was mulling setting up a Civil Service academy, it wasn’t just Hong Kong’s public servants who sat up and took notice.
Numbering around 170,000 – out of a population of 7 million – the city’s Civil Service is widely admired. Set up under British rule, it is largely regarded as efficient, honest and diligent, and its members generally deserving of their generous salaries and benefits. And ...
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