Policy Address

Municipal Services

207.     Public markets are closely related to the daily life of the general public.  The Government is reviewing the functions and positioning of public markets and exploring ways to improve their operating environment, so as to increase their competitiveness while preserving the traditional characteristics.  This year, we plan to put forward improvement proposals for some representative markets with a view to providing reference for the improvement to other public markets.

208.     In the face of a growing demand for columbaria, the current-term Government adopts a three-pronged approach, namely promoting green burials, actively increasing the supply of public niches and regulating private columbaria.  On the construction of public columbaria, we consulted the North DC and the Eastern DC on the sites at Sandy Ridge and Chai Wan respectively last year.  The two sites are expected to provide a total of about 225 000 new niches.

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