China News Agency, Hong Kong, May 19 (Reporter Zeng Ping) The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region continued its deliberations on the "Salvation Appropriation" of the Hong Kong Ocean Park on the 19th. Some members of the Legislative Council said that they do not want to see the Ocean Park, which has a history of more than 40 years, close down due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, hoping that the park will be able to return to life and regenerate after being killed.
The appropriation involving approximately 5.4 billion Hong Kong dollars will be mainly used to repay loans and maintain operations in the next year at Hong Kong Ocean Park. On the same day, many Legislative Council members will express their opinions and opinions in support of the funding.
Rong Haien, a member of the Legislative Council of the New Democratic Party of Hong Kong, said that he would go to Ocean Park every year and found that the park ’s mobile games were inferior to the most advanced facilities in other regions. She said she did not want to see the Ocean Park, which has more than 40 years of history, closed down due to the epidemic situation and minor management issues. If the park can be brought back to life this year, it will support the funding.
Huang Dingguang, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, said that he has seen a feeling from the birth of the Ocean Park until its operation to the present day. The current problem of the park is that there are insufficient tourists. Since the "occupation of the middle", the public security in Hong Kong has been unstable and cannot continue to prosper. This is the most fundamental reason. He said that if the park is wound up, it will cost a lot of money for demolition, so from the economic point of view, it will also consider supporting the funding.
Huang Dingguang believes that the SAR government and marine park decision-makers should promote the amendment of park-related laws to make the park's business model more flexible and diverse. The garden itself also has to find a way out so that the park can be reborn after the disaster.
Qiu Tenghua, Director of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said that both the SAR Government and the Ocean Park have hopes for the continued preservation of the park. Conservation and education are a major development direction of the park in the future, but this alone may not have a great income guarantee, so it is necessary to open source and reduce expenditure, and use the park ’s other conditions to generate more income, including in expanding the number of customers. Many overseas and mainland tourists with high consumption levels. (Finish)