No quick fix for city's aging workforce

A chronically low fertility rate, and a rapidly aging population, reduces the size of the workforce — with the proportion of young people diminishing too. In January 2015, the government released the "Population Policy — Strategies and Initiatives" report. The Human Resources Planning Commission was established in April 2018 to deliberate and drive population policy matters. In a written response to legislator Eunice Yung Hoi-yan in April 2023, the Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said that the government had no plans to reinstate the SCPP.