The policy address delivered by Hong Kong's Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa has evoked positive response from people of different walks of life in Hong Kong.

Tung's policy address is clearly-oriented and pragmatic, which has demonstrated that the chief executive has incorporated different views of the Hong Kong community in drafting the policy address, Chief Secretary for Administration Donald Tsang said Tsang noted that all the principal officials of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government will fully support and do their utmost to implement the policies and measures blueprinted in the policy address.

As suggested in Tung's policy address for 2005, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Henry Tang will chair a commission on poverty to be set up to address the poverty issue. Tang noted the commission will invite people who have a standing credibility and a thorough understanding of the issues on poverty.

"We will launch our work as soon as possible because the community has very high expectation of this commission," he noted.

Director-General of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries Robin Chiu welcomed Tung's plan to push the development of the creative industries and to build a recovery park for the exclusive use by recycling industries.

Chiu noted that the Federation of Hong Kong Industries is willing to cooperate with the HKSAR government in setting up the recovery park.

Nelson Chow with the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of the University of Hong Kong said that the commission on poverty to be set up will help different social sectors to reach consensus on poverty alleviation.

Felix Chan, president of the Hong Kong Chamber of Small and Medium Business, also welcomed the promised efforts in the policy address in improving the business environment, which, he believed, would promote the vigorous development of the small and medium-sized enterprises in Hong Kong.

Source: Xinhua