Economist Vincent Chan from Credit Suisse in Hong Kong believes the main problem for the government is to manage expectations of the second generation of migrant workers who form the back bone of China's success.
VOA: standard.2010.06.24
It was also used by thegovernmentofHongKong to track the outbreak of SARS in 2003.
Only once before in 1999 has it pronounced on the law (on the question of who has residency rights in HongKong), and then it was at the request oftheHongKonggovernment.
Together these classes constitute the bulk of what theHongKonggovernment now portrays as a tidal wave of humanity poised across the border, ready to swamp the territory.