In fact, after working here, it is only the financial industry that is developed here, and other industries are relatively backward compared to the mainland.
Hong Kong's IT industry lags behind the mainland by more than a decade, mainly because Hong Kong doesn't and can't emphasize technology. Hong Kong's talents are to finance, doctors direction squeeze, and computer these information technology professionals are very few people to consider. 2000, Hong Kong's Internet information in the forefront of the mainland, but trapped in their own soil, not suitable for Internet companies to survive. Hong Kong rental labor costs also suppressed want to budding entrepreneurs, all sorts of, resulting in Hong Kong Internet construction technology stayed more than a decade ago.
Fresh graduates engaged in the IT industry only 10,000 Hong Kong dollars at the beginning of the work of ten years after the work is only about 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, only in the special high-quality companies may reach more than 50,000, and this contrast to Hong Kong's price level, is dwarfed. Prices in Hong Kong for food, clothing, housing and transportation are equal to about three times those of people on the Mainland. I have rented in 7000 Hong Kong dollars a month 6 square meters single room, every day eating the cheapest chain fast food a day also have to 100 Hong Kong dollars, so even frugal Hong Kong people, if you can not solve the rent, a month of expenditure easily over 10,000, life forces the people to move forward only to the financial sector.
A lot of Hong Kong IT companies are also operating not like IT companies, I was helping Hong Kong customers to develop their internal use of the system, found that their systems are used more than 10 years ago technology, technology obsolescence in the Mainland, some of the company's older systems will also be there, the real interesting thing is that a lot of people engaged in the IT position here, do not know how to write code. Yes, they don't know how to write code. Their daily work, is in the nature of maintenance, and this maintenance, just similar to the implementation of the people, import data, formatting arrangement transformation, and then imported into another system, complete. Such a process feeds many IT practitioners. IT practitioners in Hong Kong are more inclined to management systems, because this type of work is biased towards the operation of the use of the system. You only need to know how to use the software developed by others, and you do not need any coding skills to be able to work. This trend has also led to the backwardness of coding in Hong Kong. Many people who know a little bit of technology can become technical experts. However, these people will not have too good a position in Hong Kong. Because ultimately, the people who write code are the people at the bottom of Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong practitioners, many of the talents from the mainland, you can see many of the year's top students from around the world, I have been in their **** thing, their IQ is really smart, but in the environment of Hong Kong, many of their smarts, no place to show. In the end, they were all lost to the masses. At the same time, since Hong Kong is a free and open country, there are practitioners from all over the world, but the vast majority of your colleagues are Hong Kong people. Working here feels like working in someone's hometown. People from the mainland who can't bring themselves to learn Cantonese and the habits of Hong Kong people will have a rather depressing time.
Only when a place is multicultural, can it create something new. This is something that is very difficult to happen in Hong Kong. The people of Hong Kong have focused their energies more on how to gain greater democracy, which means that the people are the masters of their own house. To allow the individual's initiative to be maximized is the highest level of democracy. When an organization, where everyone has a say, it is easy for things to go wrong. I had not been in Hong Kong for long when the Occupy Central incident happened. Every day, I passed by the crowds of people in those tents. They were able to put their precious creativity into what they thought was a "human rights liberation" movement, but naturally they were not able to make progress in society. Hong Kong's Occupation has made the outside world even more fed up with this place. It's just a bad thing for their society.
Hong Kong is a programmer, a city-state that was closed and backward in the past. Its path to the future requires external forces to drive its transformation. And these, these years have already begun. For example, the invasion of Alipay WeChat, one day, the mainland Internet, will be completely immersed in Hong Kong, when Hong Kong's IT sector, may have the opportunity to flourish.