China News Service, Hong Kong, January 31 (Reporter Zeng Ping) Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Li Jiachao said in a meeting with the media before attending the executive meeting on the 31st that he was confident that Hong Kong and the mainland would soon reach a comprehensive "customs clearance", including the cancellation of nucleic acid testing requirements and Cancellation of clearance quotas, etc.

　　Hong Kong and the Mainland implemented the first phase of "customs clearance" on January 8. Li Jiachao said that as of January 30, a total of more than 700,000 people "go north" and more than 600,000 people "go south". Hong Kong has entered a new milestone of comprehensive recovery.

"I am confident that comprehensive 'customs clearance' will be achieved soon." He said that comprehensive "customs clearance" includes canceling nucleic acid testing requirements, increasing the number of open ports, and canceling the number of people. The current progress is positive, and both sides have this in principle. Willingness, implementation details being discussed.

　　At the same time, Li Jiachao said that Hong Kong will consider lifting restrictions on overseas people coming to Hong Kong, including canceling the vaccination requirements for visitors and canceling the rapid test before coming to Hong Kong.

　　Hong Kong revoked the isolation order for confirmed cases on January 30. Li Jiachao said that the SAR government's management of the new crown epidemic has entered a new stage and a new model, and gradually established a new normal system.

The future work of the SAR government has two major goals: first, focus on economic development, and promote Hong Kong in an all-round way overseas and in the mainland; second, fully deploy and return to normal, regularize the optimized and effective response plan, and continue to optimize it according to the actual situation Resilience to respond to new changes and threats.

　　Li Jiachao disagrees with some individuals who believe that an independent investigation should be launched on past epidemic prevention measures.

He said that the new crown virus has caused about 6.7 million deaths in the world in the past three years. The epidemic situation is changing rapidly. Local governments respond in a timely manner according to the situation. There is no recognized best or standard plan, but he agrees that experience should be summed up. What has been done since then is to continuously review and optimize related work, including the establishment of a new command structure, so that decisions must be made quickly, measures must be accurate, and implementation must be fruitful.

　　Regarding the follow-up work of the epidemic situation, Li Jiachao said that the Deputy Secretary of the Financial Secretary has been appointed to coordinate the future arrangements for community isolation and treatment facilities, and analyze and judge the possible changes in the epidemic situation, social normalization development and people's livelihood needs one by one, in order to ensure that Hong Kong has certain backup emergency facilities. At the same time, release the land and reuse the isolated facility units in stages.

　　"Since the current government took office, we have always seen mountains and opened roads, and built bridges when encountering water." Li Jiachao said that the current mask order, which is still in place, will seriously consider whether it should be abolished after the winter flu peak.

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