It is the third of the Study Series on civic education. The
present survey is aimed at tapping young people’s views on the
following four aspects: ethnic identity, relationship with the
country, expectations of China and one country two systems.
Result of the findings are of much reference for better
understanding on young people in different places. For example,
in the aspect of ethnic identity, about 80 to 90 per cent of the
Mainland respondents were proud of being Chinese, whereas only
over half of the Hong Kong respondents also felt a sense of
pride, about 35 per cent felt the contrary. Many more useful and
interesting findings.
Major findings:
Ten years after its formulation, nearly 80 per cent of
Hong Kong young people are unable to name which two
systems the formula of "one country two sytems"
refers to;
By contrast, 89 and 68 per cent of young people in
Guangzhou and Beijing were able to name them as
"capitalist and socialist systems";
The survey found that young people in Hong Kong,
Guangzhou and Beijing were confident of maintaining Hong
Kong's stability and prosperity after 1997;
Hong Kong respondents considered that the political
changeover would be of greatest value to China*s economic
development, whereas the paramount feeling of the
respondents in China was that the unification of China
and the dignity of the Chinese people would be of
benefit;
If 100 indicates that they were totally patriotic, Hong
Kong respondents gave themselves an average rating of 57
with a standarad deviation of 19. This rating was much
lower than the average of 90 on the part of Guangzhou and
Beijing respondents;
Respondents in the three places slightly elevated their
self-rating on the question about the country*s
prospects. Whilst youngsters in Guangzhou and Beijing
rated themselves as high as 91 and 93, their Hong Kong
counterparts rated 61;
Respondents in the three places held the same view that
education was the major area that would be strengthened
in China. Apprently the importance of the economy has
been superseded by serious concern about the
"quality of people";
In respect of negative feature of the Chinese people,
Hong Kong respondents wree concerned about selfishness
and being narrow-minded. There were diverse answers on
the part of Guangzhou and Beijing respondents. Following
others blindly, selfishness, cowardice, and mixing up
public and private interests were considered as prominent
weakness;
Most of the respondents interviewed disagreed that
emigrating is unpatriotic. Less than a fifth held the
opposite view.
京穗港青年比較研究系列(三地)＜三＞