The one hand, the Wuhan-GuangZhou high-speed rail mainland was officially opened late last year; the other hand, connecting Hong Kong and the mainland-Hong Kong Express Rail Guangzhou-shenzhen-Hong Kong Section (the Hong Kong High Speed Rail) funding to be delayed until the 8th of this month by the Hong Kong Legislative Council.

Compared to the smooth construction of high-speed rail mainland, Hong Kong SAR Government to the Legislative Council passed the high-speed rail provision on the eve of, the community has set off a

Unit controversial wave, from the project spent more than 600 billion value for money, to Hong Kong Island terminal should be located in the city center or suburbs, up whether the project Damage Ecological Environment … … All these, the Government began a tug of war and civil.

Under the Government’s vision, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway section will be from Hong Kong’s West Kowloon to Hong Kong-Shenzhen border, the Lok Ma Chau area, line length 26 km. Opened, will connect the State are under construction, 16,000 km-long “four vertical and four horizontal” in the high-speed rail network, so that people quickly reach the other cities on the Mainland: five hours to Wuhan and Xiamen, 8 hours to Shanghai, to Beijing only take 10 hours. High Speed Rail will bring huge economic benefits for Hong Kong, Hong Kong savings per year is estimated to be 4000 hours Traffic Time, the economic benefits of 50 years up to 850 billion. Not to mention the tourism and investment income.

However, mainstream opinion in the official and social recognition should be the basic construction of the stations, when the second half of last year, Hong Kong began to protest. Among these, the cost has caused the most serious grievances.

“Anti-high-speed rail? Stop funding the Alliance,” said the final Government Program Accountable to the Legislative Council for 65.2 billion Hong Kong dollars, with 1.6 billion dollar project reserve expenditure, the Legislative Council approved funding for up to 66.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, plus land acquisition and compensation expenses garden village residents about 20 billion, nearly the entire project needed 70 billion Hong Kong dollars, or an average of every Hong Kong people take about 1 million. It announced in early 2008 than the government 39.5 billion dollar cost has almost doubled!

Now close to 8, the Hong Kong Legislative Council Finance Committee considered the high-speed rail funding, the Government and the anti-high-iron groups struggle also is heating up, one after another last-ditch effort “votes.”

People of Hong Kong politics, and now the Legislative Council Finance Committee in support of the majority members of the high iron, high-speed rail funding is estimated to be adopted. Once adopted, means that Hong Kong’s fastest growing High Speed Rail is expected to be completed in 2015.

“In fact, provided that such a stupendous project, the Government should have political considerations, can not simply believe, from an economic and professional point of view, we can eliminate all of the panic. The construction of high-speed rail itself is conducive to the development of Hong Kong affairs, But the political and public relations perspective, the Government approach is still inadequate, resulting in four opposition. “Hong Kong Legislative Meeting Priscilla Leung think.