With the latest figures showing that the number of Hong Kong civil servant resignations at an all time high, the Hong Kong government is further strengthening its ideological control over civil servant with its announcement that starting July 1, 2022, a test on the National Security Law will be part of its recruitment of civil servants.
The Hong Kong Civil Service Bureau recently announced that more than 2,800 civil servants resigned in the nine-month period from April to December 2021, an increase of 50 percent over the full fiscal year from April 2020 to April 2021.
Figures show that 8,274 civil servants left their jobs, of them 2,809 resigned in the last financial year at the end of December. The resignation rate was 1.6 percent out of the total 178,000 civil servants—statistics provided by the government in March 2021—the highest since the handover of Hong Kong’s sovereignty.
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