Hong Kong protests: City University reveals bill to fix vandalised campus will run to hundreds of millions of dollars
- CityU is the first of six universities which were damaged during recent anti-government protests to provide an estimate in a public statement
- Masked protesters vandalised CityU’s main administration building, sabotaged president’s office and broke into laboratories this month
City University of Hong Kong has revealed that the bill to fix facilities damaged after radical protesters vandalised many parts of its campus this month will run to hundreds of millions of dollars.
That came as top government officials said universities which faced difficulties in paying huge repair bills from their recurrent funding, such as Chinese University and Polytechnic University, could seek help from the Education Bureau or consider applying for funding in the Legislative Council.
“We will first look at the extent of the damage and the restoration works that have to be carried out; and whether [the universities] have been insured and how much can be covered. These are all factors for our consideration,” Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung Yun-hung said.
Earlier this month, masked protesters vandalised the CityU campus’ main administration building, sabotaged the president’s office and broke into laboratories.