CY Leung has knocked on doors for Wang Chau housing projects, senior Hong Kong official claims
Executive Council member Cheung Chi-kong defends city leader’s efforts on controversial development as calls continue for greater disclosure of plans
Hong Kong’s leader has personally “knocked on the doors” of different people to push ahead developments on deserted rural sites, an executive councillor has claimed while declining to offer details.
“I can tell you that the chief executive has personally knocked on the doors of this and that person in order to push ahead all these [brownfield projects],” Cheung said during a Commercial Radio programme.
Pressed to offer details such as whom Leung had approached, the executive councillor replied: “Ask the chief executive himself.”
But he later released a statement saying he meant Leung had demanded different government departments actively look into how brownfield sites could be developed.
I can tell you that the chief executive has personally knocked on the doors of this and that person in order to push ahead
Cheung said politics was all about convincing different people with your proposals. He added the government needed to press ahead with developing brownfield sites because the city was running out of other suitable areas.