How finance industries have been affected by Occupy Central
The finance industry takes a strong hit, says the government’s press release, whilst the pedestrians says that “Local Businesses don’t seem to be affected.”
HONG KONG - As the Occupy Central movement continues to rage on for the past week. Chinese university’s studies have shown that the younger age demographics tend towards the supporting side while the older demographics are shown to have a tendency to be anti-Occupy Central.
Whilst the government has been saying that it has been causing huge disruptant towards the daily lives of the people of Hong Kong. This is because of the potential losses of jobs due to roads being blocked and tourist numbers going down, hence affecting the tourist industry. The introduction of various court cases, such as taxi unions filing a high court case. This can show that businesses have in fact been affected that lead to such rigours decisions.
Interestingly, the government released the statistical numbers of tourists, has in fact increased over the past month. Due to the Occupy Central’s phenomenon it has heightened the amount of tourist to visit Hong Kong. This has proven to be contradictory to what the government has been releasing publicly.
On the other hand, our reporter has been interviewing pedestrians in Admiralty and asking their views on how finance industry has been affected through the Occupy Central movement.
U.S. Journalist has allegedly said “I don’t think local businesses are affected.”
While retired real estate agent Peter Jiang says “the Hang Seng Index have arisen back to previous indexes.” This shows that both the pedestrians and those who are monitoring the finance market has allegedly said that the economy of Hong Kong has not been affected by the recent protests.
The outcomes of the court cases have yet to be released.
By Anna Kam
