Building Capacity

Expand land resources

Northern Metropolis: Set aside $100 billion from the cumulative return of the Future Fund to set up a dedicated fund to expedite the implementation of infrastructure works relating to land, housing and transportation within the Northern Metropolis

Healthcare:
- Increase recurrent allocation up to $400 million as needed for enhancing training for medical professionals
- Provide 500 more designated places to provide subsidies for students to take self-financing undergraduate programmes on healthcare
- Earmark $10 billion for the completion of the works to upgrade and increase healthcare teaching facilities of universities to provide the capacity to cope with about 900 additional healthcare training places
Financial Sectors: Launch the Pilot Green and Sustainable Finance Capacity Building Support Scheme and the Pilot Scheme on Training Subsidy for FinTech Practitioners for the training of professionals
Innovation and Technology: Continue to provide young people with internship and training opportunities through various schemes, provide incentives or subsidies for graduates to pursue a career in I&T, facilitate the entry of talent into Hong Kong
Arts and Culture: Inject $100 million into the Cantonese Opera Development Fund to support the training of practitioners. Allocate $37 million to provide professional training for conservators
Construction Industry: Allocate $1 billion to the Construction Industry Council for supporting manpower training
Continuing Education: Raise the subsidy ceiling of the Continuing Education Fund to $25,000 and remove the upper age limit