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Hong Kong/ Politics

A case for inclusion: Carrie Lam pledges to tout list of 16 ethnic minority Hongkongers for government advisory positions

Chief secretary’s remarks deemed ‘tremendously important’ by high-achieving finalists, whose ranks include 11 Indians, two Pakistanis and a Filipino

Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor speaking in Tamar last week. Photo: Sam Tsang

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor promised to distribute a freshly released “diversity list” – comprising 16 Hongkongers of ethnic minority descent qualified and willing to serve on government advisory bodies – to all 13 of the city’s bureaus to promote inclusion.

Speaking at the list’s public unveiling on Monday, Lam said she wanted it to be embraced not only “by the Chief Secretary for Administration herself” but by her 13 principal official colleagues heading up government bureaus and responsible for nominating individuals to sit on boards and committees under their respective purviews.