Hongkongers have shown strengthened confidence in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government and its Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa, according to Hong Kong Policy Research Institute Ltd Wednesday.
In a monthly survey, the non-governmental research institute surveyed 852 Hong Kong people from May 5 to 8.
Results showed that the confidence index for the HKSAR government reached 86 points in May, a rise of 25 percent compared with the figure in April.
Hong Kong residents' confidence index towards HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa rose to 85 points, with an accumulated growth of 25 percent from March.
The 852 surveyed also responded that their confidence index towards Hong Kong's civil servants recorded a rise of 30 percent from the figure in March.
Since the beginning of 1996, the institute has conducted confidence index surveys to gauge and analyze the public's confidence in the economic, social and political developments and related issues.
(Xinhua News Agency May 15, 2003)
