MacLehose felt relieved and thought to himself, "As expected."
The smile on his face was more tolerant and encouraging. He nodded slightly and put on a listening posture, as if to say: Go ahead, I will "consider it appropriately" with the Governor's "wisdom" and "compassion".
All cameras, lenses, and eyes were fixed on Lin Huowang's lips.
Before Lin Huowang finished speaking, he quickly turned to his assistant Gao Qiaohao. Gao Qiaohao immediately stepped forward, holding a dark brown, hard briefcase about three centimeters thick in both hands.
No one saw how Lin Huowang's eyes suddenly became as sharp as a knife. Although his smile still maintained a polite curve, his entire aura had suddenly transformed from the previous humble and gentle to an unquestionable fierceness.
Without hesitation, and even with a sense of urgent accusation, he pulled out a thick stack of photos and a neatly bound stack of reports from the briefcase and handed them directly to Murray MacLehose!
The action was clean and neat, without any warning!
"Speaking of being responsible for the economic prosperity of Hong Kong Island and the well-being of its citizens, Sir Murray MacLehose!" Lin Huowang's voice suddenly rose, carrying an unprecedented heaviness and sorrow. "I'm here today because I have no choice but to solemnly protest to you the Governor's Office's - gross inaction!"
"Protest? Serious inaction?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone felt as if a major realization had been reached. They all thought that Xiaolin Tianwang had lost his temper and was about to complain about the land's predicament. Or perhaps it wasn't that Xiaolin Tianwang couldn't hold back, but rather that he had no other choice but to resort to this desperate measure.
Governor Murray MacLehose also had a very unintentional smug smile on his face, thinking that once Kobayashi Tianwang opened his mouth to protest, it would be his turn to take full control of the situation. He was ready to politely and as a matter of course kick Kobayashi Tianwang's protests and demands to Shen Bi of HSBC like a ball according to the words he had prepared in advance, and Shen Bi would then privately sign many terms and agreements with Kobayashi Tianwang.
However, before he could open his mouth, Lin Huowang did not give him time to react. He directly opened the first page of the report in public and pointed several extremely visually impactful photos at the nearest camera lenses!
The content of the photo was instantly captured and magnified: a crowded pigeon-cage-like public housing estate, with more than a dozen families sharing a dirty public toilet at the end of the corridor, and the toilet bowl was filthy.
In the narrow door gap at the bottom of the photo, a family of several people are squeezed into a partitioned room of less than ten square meters, and even the bed boards are almost stacked together!
Debris piled high, the light dim and filthy. The shantytowns were a horrific sight, a series of dilapidated, decaying wooden sheds and iron houses, overflowing sewage, and strewn with garbage, densely packed like a giant scar clinging to the splendid shell of Hong Kong Island.
A statistical table clearly shows that the per capita living area in Hong Kong Island is far below the international standard, and a large number of families are in an "extremely crowded" state.
Another column shows the shocking comparison of idle and underdeveloped land owned by Hong Kong Land Group and the Hong Kong government. It particularly highlights the large amount of land owned by the Hong Kong government that is relatively remote and has low commercial value.
Lin Huowang's voice, with its poignant force, pierced the eardrums of MacLehose and everyone present. "Your Excellency, citizens of Hong Kong Island! This is the 'home' that the vast majority of us here on Hong Kong Island rely on for survival! The average living area per person is less than 10 square feet! The environment is appallingly dirty and filthy! Privacy? What about privacy? Dignity? What about dignity? A good night's sleep is a luxury for a family! In such an environment, how can anyone maintain a sound mind? How can they work efficiently and responsibly? How can they live and work in peace and truly contribute to the prosperity of Hong Kong Island?"
He held the photo high, his voice resonating throughout the audience: "This! This is the deepest scar beneath Hong Kong Island's prosperous facade! This is a humanitarian crisis! And it's a huge hidden danger to Hong Kong Island's long-term development!"
"And when I took over Hongkong Land," he said, his eyes sweeping across MacLehose's somewhat stiff face as he handed the report forward again, "while sorting through the group's assets, I was shocked to discover that Hongkong Land's land reserves available for residential development alone, if properly developed, could initially resolve the housing difficulties of tens of thousands of low- and middle-income families on Hong Kong Island!"
"However, what shocks and incomprehensible me even more," Lin Huowang said, cutting to the point, his tone full of accusation. "Compared to the land resources owned by Hong Kong Hong Kong, the vast amount of land controlled by the British Hong Kong government, especially those not located in core business districts, which have low development costs but can greatly improve the living conditions of citizens," he said, tapping the data on the report. "The amount far exceeds Hong Kong Hong Kong by a hundred times! Yet, they have long been idle and underdeveloped, left to grow weeds, or simply hoarded and waiting to be sold!"
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