According to a report by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) on the 22nd, the Hong Kong Immigration Department warned that Hong Kong’s entry to Hong Kong could be disallowed if a person who obtained a visa has a different purpose of travel than the reason reported through the “High-Quality Talent Pass Plan.” It also said it has investigated the practices of women coming to Hong Kong from mainland China for childbirth and strengthened particle size control.The SCMP explained that the warning came as some mainland Chinese women said they wanted to use the visa to give birth in Hong Kong. He added that he confirmed that discussions on actually obtaining the visa and giving birth in Hong Kong were going on at Xiaohongshu, called the “Chinese version of Instagram.”
The Hong Kong government launched the Advanced Talent Pass Plan on December 28 last year to give a two-year work visa to those who graduated from the world’s top 100 universities and have worked for three years out of the past five years, and those with an annual salary of more than HKD 2.5 million (about 400 million won).
The Hong Kong government said 10,810 people applied for the visa as of the 13th, and about two-thirds of them are mainland Chinese.Jane, a Beijing University graduate who obtained the visa, wrote in Xiaohongshu that she plans to have a baby while in Hong Kong. More than 100 members are active in the Hong Kong Childbirth Conversation Room, which he opened in Xiaohongshu.
The Chinese want to give birth on an expedition to Hong Kong because if they give birth in Hong Kong, their children will have permanent residency in Hong Kong, so they can receive a better education than the mainland, and they will benefit from college admission and hospital treatment.
Before COVID-19, China also caused problems with away births in the United States.
With its abundant capital, it was commercialized by receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in childbirth costs and care in the United States.
Since a Hong Kong court earlier decided in 2001 that newborn babies born in Hong Kong should be granted the right to live, about 200,000 people have been born on the expedition by 2012 due to the boom in expeditionary childbirth of mainland Chinese women. However, as mainland Chinese took up a large number of obstetrics and gynecology rooms, Hong Kong’s government has banned mainland Chinese women who do not have the right to live in Hong Kong from giving birth on an expedition since 2013. In addition, public hospitals were not allowed to receive mainland pregnant women.
KS CHOI
ASIA JOURNAL
