**[2023 Policy Address] HKD 20,000 Incentive for Childbirth! What Other Issues Are Netizens Concerned About?**
On October 25th, Chief Executive John Lee announced the 2023 Policy Address, which proposed several measures aimed at improving people's livelihoods, including encouraging childbirth, land and housing, transportation infrastructure, basic allowances, and educational subsidies.
Hong Kong's uMax Data utilized its social intelligence platform xMiner to analyze online data from news media, social media, and forums to gauge netizens' attention and discussion directions concerning various policy items after the Policy Address was released.
When did the discussion peak? What were the popular platforms and media accounts?
On October 25th, the day Chief Executive John Lee delivered the Policy Address in the Legislative Council, the related online buzz gradually increased. The peak volume occurred around 1 PM, shortly after the Policy Address was read, followed by a gradual decline. However, there was another small peak in volume during the day on the 26th.
In terms of volume distribution, Facebook had the largest share.
Out of nearly 110,000 posts, over 70,000 were generated on the Facebook platform.
Independent media garnered the highest heat value, followed by Cable News.
What topics are netizens most concerned about?
Overall, housing, land, and medical livelihood issues received the most attention from netizens, including the childbirth encouragement plan and housing market measures.
The topic of encouraging childbirth sparked heated discussions among netizens when the Chief Executive read the Policy Address.
What are netizens discussing about the childbirth encouragement plan?
The "Encouraging Childbirth" topic mainly involves three policies: the "HKD 20,000 Newborn Incentive," "Priority Allocation of Public Housing," and "Increased Tax Allowance Cap." The pie chart shows that the public's discussion focus is primarily on the "HKD 20,000 Newborn Incentive," accounting for over 60% of the discussions, indicating that this policy has generated the most widespread discussion and interaction online.
The directions of discussions related to the "Encouraging Childbirth" topic can be roughly categorized into six types, with the highest proportion being "New Arrivals Benefit More" (35.2%), followed by "HKD 20,000 Incentive is Too Little" (17.8%).
What are the comments about the "Encouraging Childbirth" topic?
Some netizens believe that new arrivals to Hong Kong, who have a higher willingness to have children, will benefit significantly from the policy, which leads to concerns about increased unfairness in public housing allocation and a significant rise in government expenditure. Additionally, some netizens directly criticized the HKD 20,000 incentive as too little to be effective, or broadly criticized the related policies as "out of touch" and "irrational." There were also comments expressing a lack of understanding of the government's rationale for introducing such policies, describing officials as "brainless" and "insane."
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