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Hongkongese VS Mainlanders
By: Raissa Yeung March 19th, 2012
The relationship between Hongkongese and Chinese mainlanders have been tense lately, due to reasons such as mainland pregnant women arriving at the emergency rooms in the late stages of their labor in order to have the right of abode in Hong Kong, occupying the emergency rooms in hospitals.
According to Telegraph News the number of pregnant mainlanders rushing into emergency rooms in Hong Kong hospitals for emergency labor has increased 108 percent when compared to previous years. In January 2012, 179 mainland women were recorded to have “rushed to casualties departments for emergency labor”, whilst in January 2010, 89 women gave birth under “emergency” circumstances.
The rule that was set in 2001, which allows Hong Kong-born children of mainlanders who set foot inside the territory of Hong Kong- even as tourists- be allowed to the right of abode in Hong Kong is held responsible for the large amount of emergency birth given. The number of unpredictable births caused Hong Kong hospital to be stressing from lack of resources and unhappy Hong Kong locals.
On January 1st, more than 1500 pregnant women protested against birth tourism. “I would’ve protested too,” stated Joanna Cheng, an eighth grader in SSIS who is from Hong Kong, “They are cramming the hospital’s emergency rooms making it really dangerous when real emergency happens.” Nurses in Hong Kong complained the government of being unprofessional; saying Hong Kong locals should be put first over the mainlanders says Wikipedia. Doctors themselves called the government about the issue, for resources were short, pressuring the government into decreasing the amount of mainland babies allowed to be given birth in Hong Kong hospitals. To limit the so called “birth-tourists”, the Hong Kong administrations changed the original number 10,000 of non-locals allowed to be given birth in Hong Kong public hospitals each year down to 3,400.
Again, in January 2012, a heated argument between Hong Kong citizens and mainland tourists broke out on a MTR subway in Hong Kong. Mr. Wai, a Hong Kong local spotted a few mainland kids eating on the subway and asked them to stop, while the mother of the kids started accusing Mr.Wai of making trouble and mocked him for his bad mandarin. This enraged Mr.Wai, as he started quarrelling with them in Cantonese, spilling his complains about mainlanders in the process, as the argument got more heated, locals in the subway joined into the argument, all supporting Mr.Wai. The whole process was filmed by a by-stander however, and ended with both group of people getting off the subway with a subway staff. This video was then posted on Youtube, and stirred up a huge debate between the mainlanders and locals of Hong Kong. This argument is still going on, taken place over the Internet. This incident clearly displayed the relationships between Hong Kong locals and mainlander isn’t exactly at good-terms.

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