SHENZHEN - President Xi Jinping called for new measures to encourage young people from Hong Kong to move to China, part of measures to integrate the semi-autonomous territory with the mainland following student-led protests last year.
China should"fully utilise the important platform of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau cooperation to attract more young people from Hong Kong and Macau to study, work and live in the mainland", he said. She cancelled her annual policy address scheduled for Wednesday to attend the event, and now plans to give it late next month or earlier after consulting with officials in Beijing.
The law, meant to subdue protests that turned violent last year, came as the city looks to revive an economy battered by unrest and the pandemic.
Thought most young Hong Kongers demonstrated long and hard to stay out of China.