The Current Situation of "Hong Kong Drift"

1997 Hong Kong returned to China, and in 200012000, the Hong Kong government allowed mainland students studying in Hong Kong to stay in Hong Kong after graduation, which set off a wave of studying in Hong Kong for nearly12000. In recent years, after the release of the college entrance examination list, the domestic and Hong Kong media will follow up the competition between Hong Kong universities and mainland famous schools for the top spot.

According to statistics, in 200 1 year, only about 1000 mainland students came to Hong Kong to study in universities. Since then, this number has been increasing every year. By 2007, the number of mainland freshmen enrolled by local universities had exceeded 6,000. Plus the master's program, the number of mainland freshmen will exceed 1 10,000 in 20 10. By 2007, there were more than 23,000 mainland students studying in Hong Kong, and about 20,000 mainland professionals came to Hong Kong for employment through various schemes. Up to now, there are about 40,000 mainland students studying in universities in Hong Kong and mainland professionals who have been working in Hong Kong since 20001year.

The post-80s generation in China is a generation who grew up listening to Hong Kong pop songs, watching Hong Kong films and chasing Hong Kong dramas. They admire Hong Kong culture, and they even love this legendary bustling city, the world's leading fashion international city: Hong Kong.

The post-80s young people who came to Hong Kong to study are the high flyers of the mainland post-80s generation. They don't belong to the well-known' new immigrants' who applied to enter Hong Kong through marriage or relatives, and they don't belong to domestic famous figures like Lang Lang, Zhou Xun and Tang Wei who directly obtained permanent resident status through the talent program of the Hong Kong government. They are post-80s young people who entered Hong Kong through studying in Hong Kong and started to struggle alone. They are floating in Hong Kong.

The post-80s students who drifted from Hong Kong to the mainland were labeled as elites by the domestic society and media. However, when they graduated from universities in Hong Kong, this label became a shackle on their feet, and they couldn't go back, because they finally arrived in Hong Kong, and they couldn't get in, because Hong Kong actually didn't need them as much as they thought.