HKSAR gov't to spend 557 bln HKD in fiscal year 2018-2019

    Source: Xinhua| 2018-02-28 18:00:04|Editor: Yurou
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    HONG KONG, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The financial chief of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Wednesday that Hong Kong's total expenditure in the new fiscal year is estimated to be 557.9 billion (about 71.5 billion U.S. dollars), up 17.6 percent compared to 2017-18.

    When delivering Hong Kong's annual budget today, Financial Secretary of HKSAR government Paul Chan Mo-po said operating expenditure for 2018-2019 is estimated to be 441.5 billion HK dollars, a year-on-year increase of 18.4 percent.

    "Recurrent expenditure, which accounts for over 90 percent of operating expenditure, will reach 406.5 billion HK dollars, a year-on-year increase of 11.8 percent," he said.

    Total government revenue of Hong Kong for 2018-2019 is estimated to be 604.5 billion HK dollars, of which earnings and profits tax is estimated at 218.4 billion HK dollars. The revenue from land premium is estimated to be 121 billion HK dollars, while that from stamp duties is estimated to be 100 billion HK dollars, according to Chan.

    In 2018-2019, the estimated recurrent expenditure on education, social welfare and healthcare accounts for about 60 percent of government recurrent expenditure, exceeding 230 billion HK dollars in total. Recurrent expenditure in these three areas recorded a cumulative increase of 42.8 percent over the past five years, Chan said.

    Chan forecasted a surplus of 46.6 billion HK dollars in the consolidated account in the coming year. Fiscal reserves are estimated to be 1,138.6 billion HK dollars by the end of March 2019, equivalent to 40.3 percent of GDP.

    In the budget, the financial chief put focuses on areas including the promotion of diversified economy and the investment in livelihood issues such as healthcare services, relieving the public's financial burdens.

    Chan said that Hong Kong has to focus on biotechnology, artificial intelligence (A.I.), smart city and financial technologies (Fintech) amidst keen competition in the innovation and technology (I&T), and he will set aside an additional 50 billion HK dollars for the development of I&T.

    The government will allocate 20 billion HK dollars on the first phase of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park in the Lok Ma Chau Loop and inject 10 billion HK dollars into the Innovation and Technology Fund to support research and development.

    Healthcare is an issue of utmost concern to the community in Hong Kong, Chan said, the government's expenditure on public healthcare services will increase by 13.3 percent to 71.2 billion.

    Chan proposed to allocate additional recurrent funding of nearly 6 billion HK dollars to the Hospital Authority, and some additional 200 million HK dollars to enhance the healthcare professional training.

    "To support the second 10-year hospital development plan, improve the clinic facilities in the Department of Health, and upgrade and increase healthcare teaching facilities, I have set aside a sum of 300 billion HK dollars as an initial provision," Chan said.

    In the past, it was a budgetary criterion that public expenditure should be kept at or below 20 percent of GDP, he said, adding that one of the considerations was to avoid over-expansion of the government, which might not be conducive to resource deployment.

    During the period between the 2018-2019 budget and the subsequent years in the medium range forecast, the public expenditure will be slightly higher than 21 percent of GDP, he noted. (1 U.S. dollar = 7.8 HK dollars)

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