I have a sharing of what is the Uber status in Hong Kong previously. And it is clear that the poor situation have not been improved up until now. The government attitude towards Uber is still so strong that it is against the law and they have no intension to amend the law to suit the practical situation in Hong Kong.
我之前曾發過一個帖子提到Uber在香港的情況，而這個情況到現在都沒有變好。政府的態度一直都是挺強硬的說這個不合法，而且沒有打算對相關的法律作出關於社會實際狀況的咨詢。
And in this article, I would like to mention some political point of view that what is the possible reason that the government has such strong attitude to against the Uber.
在這篇文章，我打算寫其中一個可能的人為因素。這個可能解釋了為什麼香港政府對Uber的態度如此強硬。
First of all, let’s see what is the citizen’s attitude towards Uber in Hong Kong. In 2015, a research done by market research firm – YouGov showed that, about 55% Hong Kong citizen thought that government should make Uber as a legal service. So, we can clearly say that most of the citizen support Uber. So, why the government have to do such thing which is against most of the citizen expectation?
首先，讓我們來看一下市民對Uber的意向吧。根據市場研究機構YouGov在2015年的調查，大約55%的市民都認為政府應該把Uber合法化。所以，我可以總括大部份的市民都是支持Uber的。哪麼，政府到底有什麼原因要逆著大部份市民的意向呢?
The possible reason maybe because of a woman – Tam Wai Chu. Who is she? Let me give some background information to you. Tam Wai Chu is born in a peerage in Hong Kong. The “Tam”’s family have a lot of power in Hong Kong. She entered politics before the return of Hong Kong. When it come closer to the return, she drew close to the China Government and appointed to many positions by Beijing during the transition period, such as member of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (PRC) and Hong Kong Affairs Advisor (PRC).
我想這原因可能是因為這個女人 – 譚惠珠。她是誰? 譚惠珠在回歸之前開始踏入政治圈，在香港主權移交之時，她開始親近中國。而北京也給了她不同的職務, 包括港區全國人大代表、香港特別行政區基本法委員會委員。
And what is the relation with Uber? The main relation is the Tam’s family holder a lot of taxi license in Hong Kong. She speculated the taxi license since 1990 when she is even still in the Transport Advisory Committee without declare her family investment in taxi businesses in the territory. And because of this, the British Hong Kong starts drifted apart from her. And after that she joined the Chinese factions and start gaining political power in Hong Kong, and also gaining the numbers of taxi license on hand. Until now, media still cannot sure how many taxi licenses she or her family hold. But what we can say is it must be a lot.
那這跟Uber有什麼關係呢?最主要的關係沿於譚氏家族擁有很多的香港的士牌照。她在1990年開始參加炒賣的士牌照活動，而當時她可還是交通諮詢委員會的委員之一，而且沒有申報利益。所以當時事件被公開後，港英政府開始疏遠她。而她就開始親近中國，而且慢慢的累積政治勢力。到目前為止，還沒有人能搞清楚她們家族到底手握多少的士牌照，但可以肯定的就是一定很多!
And let’s look on the price for the taxi license change. You can see that, the price raised start from 500 thousand in year 1986, to 6.5 million in year 2017.
我們來看一看的士牌照的價格的升幅吧。它從1986年的50萬，上升到2017年的6百50萬。升幅可是13倍啊。
So, as we all known, the Uber business will definitely affect the price for the taxi license. And Miss Tam Wai Chu had talked in the press and news that she against the Uber business several times. Yes, there are no prove that whether Miss Tam Wai Chu have used its political power to affect the government decision, but something is always better to keep it unsaid..
我們都很清楚，Uber的運作會影響到的士牌照的價格。而譚惠珠小姐也不止一次的在公開埸合、報章上表明她反對Uber。當然，我們沒有證據證明她有用她的政治影響力去影響政府對Uber的態度，但有些事情是不用說得這麼明白的..
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