Hong Kong’s senior civil servants will be subject to a new mechanism to hold them accountable for underperformance, with dismissal as the maximum penalty.
Announcing the new “Heads of Department Accountability System” in his annual policy address, the chief executive later dismissed concerns that the move might deter senior servants.
“If they think like that, they had better go,” city leader John Lee Ka-chiu said.
The new accountability system, aimed at building a more effective governing team,…
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