HK Pollution Problem Deters Expats - Amcham
Date: 03-Sep-07
Country: CHINA
In the survey, which covered responses from 89 chamber
members, 51 percent of respondents said they had experienced
difficulty recruiting professionals to come and work in Hong
Kong and 70 percent said they knew of professionals who had
declined to work in the territory because of the poor quality
of the environment.
Given the deteriorating air quality, 57 percent of survey
respondents indicated their companies were likely in future to
invest more money elsewhere instead of Hong Kong.
The survey was conducted by the Nielsen Company on behalf
of the American Chamber of Commerce.
Hong Kong is frequently cloaked in haze due to pollution
spreading from factories in China's southern Guangdong province
and from local power stations and vehicles.
Green group Friends of the Earth says the territory's
bad-air days have doubled over the past decade.
The Hong Kong government, which has imposed emission caps
on power companies and set goals to reduce emissions from
vehicles, has said that air quality is at the top of its agenda
but AmCham urged it to do more.
