By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-26 05:41:32 | Updated at 2024-11-26 08:59:09
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A Hong Kong bar operators’ association has started requiring new members to attend lectures on national security, becoming the city’s first catering industry group to implement such a measure.
Chin Chun-wing, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar and Club Association, said on Monday that those who joined the group would now have to participate in lectures on the topic held by it to “shoulder the important responsibility of promoting national security”.
“This decision of the association is only the first step. We will fully cooperate with government and national policies and strive to promote national security education in the future,” he said, urging more groups to join the effort.
Chin announced the new measure after he completed a course under the government’s new National Security Education District Tutor Training Scheme and became a qualified tutor on Monday.
Beijing imposed in June 2020 a sweeping national security law outlawing acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces in response to anti-government protests which rocked the city for months in 2019.
Chin said the course helped him gain a better understanding of the city’s national security law as well as the concept of safeguarding national security.
