Sunday, July 27, 2008

香港,加油!

大連是東北最繁華的港口。還沒去之前,不斷聽說大連多熱鬧、多文明、多現代化。

與其他東北城市比較,這裏就像另一國家,從街上的時髦美人到店裏的國際品牌,從耀目的豪宅到繁忙的公路,朝氣蓬勃,像正在醞釀的上海。
整個大連從天然的不凍港發跡,再從交通開始,發展成集金融、工業、貿易於一身的國際都市。大連人常把香港掛在口邊,欲打造第二個香港。
神州大地都磨拳擦掌要趕過香港,如果你多去國內,就知道香港的優勢正在沉沒。一線城市北京、上海、廣州、深圳,二線城市長沙、重慶、西安、瀋陽、南京;還有東北、西北、華南、華中,都像神舟飛船般急射升空。香港除了制度優良,金錢充足之外,已經真的沒優勢,香港人甚至連普通話也說不通。
香港,加油呀!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Lavender,

it's always great to see the catching up of the rest of China and wonderful to see that HK is always used as the Benchmark.

however we need to re-assess the claim that HK is completely losinng it's competitive edge vs its Chinese peers with a grain of salt.

don't want to drag on too much on the intellectual discussions this time as that's been done trillions of times by the academics, but would like to throw in an illustration:

I watched a basket match between the HK basket team and the Fujian basket team on TVB yesterday (well the heat was just unbearable and might as well stayed in-doors). From the look, the Fujian team was completely dominating the match, leading the scores for the first 3 sessions, they were much well-built and taller than the HK team and their attact-defence tactics were much better as well. Even in the 4th session, it didn't seem things would turn around a bit. For audience like my dad or myself, we were almost giving up on the match in the last 5min. However, things did turn around very dramatically in the last 3 mins and the HK team scored probably 10 points within that short peroid and eventually won the match by 4 points.

food for thought: I guess that's not just the abilities to win, but more importantly the willingness to win.

so HK: are you ready to fight?

Cheers

Patrick