People often evaluate the problem of Hong Kong from the perspective of a country but not the angle of a city. Given that a country consists of urban and rural areas, people living in megacities where the living indexes are relatively high, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, are often more productive or even a dignitary from all over the country. It is difficult for those who are retired or less productive to gain a foothold in these megacities. Only countryside with a low living standard is suitable for retirement lives and this is what the idioms “returning to the land” and “returning to the hometown” mean. When Hong Kong is on par with financial centres like New York, London, and Tokyo, retiring in Hong Kong has become an impossible mission. 

Learn more from the full article (in Chinese only) written by Kenny Siu, Senior Advisor of AEC Group, published on Sing Pao on 20 June.