A telephone survey was conducted from 16 to 20 December 2016 by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to gauge public views about the current Individual Visit Scheme (IVS). 754 respondents aged 18 or above were successfully interviewed, with a response rate of 36.6%. The sampling error is + or –3.57% at a confidence level of 95%. <\/p>
Major findings are summarized as follows:<\/strong> <\/p> In this survey, nearly half (49.5%) of the respondents thought replacing the “multiple-entry” Individual Visit Endorsements for permanent residents of Shenzhen with the “one trip per week” Individual Visit Endorsements, implemented in April 2015, brought more benefits to Hong Kong. About one-fifth (21.8%) thought it brought more detriments to Hong Kong while 18.7% said the changes brought both to Hong Kong. <\/p> Nearly half (47.0%) of the respondents preferred to keep the current IVS, which is 21.9% higher than the figure from the similar survey conducted on February 2015, two months before the implementation of the new “one trip per week” policy. More than one-tenth (13.3%) of the respondents wanted to expand the scope of IVS, increasing from last survey’s 3.4%. Meanwhile, there were still 35.1% of the respondents who would like to further reduce the scope of IVS, down from 66.7% of last survey. <\/p> Close to three-fifths (57.6%) of the respondents thought that comparing with one year ago, the number of Mainland visitors from IVS has decreased. More than three-tenths (32.4%) thought the number was about the same. Only 6.4% thought the number has increased. With regard to the situation of Mainland parallel traders, about two-fifth (41.5%) of the respondents said it has been improved compared to one year ago. However, there was also about exact same proportion (41.4%) of respondents who thought the situation has not improved at all, reflecting quite different opinions among publics on this issue. <\/p> In terms of the impacts of IVS on Hong Kong, more than two-fifths (44.4%) of the respondents thought IVS as beneficial, 30.1% believed it as detrimental, and 21.4% said that it brought both benefits and detriments. Around one-quarter (24.5%) of the respondents said IVS brought more benefits to themselves, 38.5% tended to believe that it caused more detriments, and 27.3% said “in-between”. Overall, the current attitude towards the current IVS were less negative than last survey. <\/p> Over one-half (55.5%) of the respondents said that visitors under IVS brought inconvenience to their everyday lives, while 43.5% reported they did not experience any inconvenience. Among the former group of respondents, 38.3% reported a low level of inconvenience caused by IVS, 38.1% found a moderate level, and 22.4% expressed a high level.<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":null,"video_file":null,"add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"2435","photos_original":null,"attachments_original":[{"link":"587337976e627.pdf","text":"Attachment (Chinese version only)"}]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}