Asthma patient Sung Ting-kin says Tung Chee-hwa's measures to combat pollution will not help ease his pain.
Mr Sung, 66, has been suffering from asthma for four years. Each day, he travels from his Ma On Shan home to work in a bakery in Sha Tin, where he is a delivery worker.
'Hong Kong air quality is so bad, many asthma patients like me are suffering from air pollution. This week, there is so much haze in Ma On Shan, I cannot stop coughing. I need to take steroids frequently to help breathing. It is very painful.'
Mr Tung said in his policy speech the government would cap power company emissions and require them to maximise the use of natural gas for power generation and develop renewable energy. The government will also strengthen co-operation with Guangdong to introduce emissions reduction schemes and pollution controls. Mr Sung welcomed these measures, but believed there was more the government could do.
He said he thought Hong Kong's air quality would improve if power companies burned less coal, but the problem of air pollution was very serious in the whole of the Pearl River Delta area. He was also disappointed that Mr Tung failed to introduce measures to control the number of vehicles. 'Every day I travel to work, I am forced to inhale black smoke from vehicles. There are just too many cars and buses in Hong Kong.' Emissions controls on vehicle exhausts should be tightened, he said.