(Picture: The development of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area has enabled Hong Kong to give full play to its role as an important bridge and window connecting the mainland and the rest of the world.) According to media reports, over 110000 Hong Kong residents left in the past year, with a population decline of 1.6%. In response, Huang Liuquan, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, said that everyone was concerned about the so-called "migration tide". I also reviewed the report of the Statistics Office of the Hong Kong SAR Government. From the contents and data of the report, there are many reasons for the population decline in Hong Kong. It cannot be seen that the population decline is caused by the migration tide. The report shows that the provisional population of Hong Kong in the middle of 2022 will be 7.2916 million, including 7.1819 million permanent residents and 10.97 million floating residents. From the middle of 2021 to the middle of 2022, Hong Kong's immigration population will be 18300, and the emigration population will be 113200, that is, 110000 just mentioned. The report uses a large number; The newly born population is 35100, and the dead population is 61600. In response, a spokesman for the Hong Kong SAR government explained that "the government has no direct statistics on the migration of Hong Kong people. As an international city, Hong Kong's population has always been highly mobile. In the past decade, Hong Kong residents, excluding one-way ticket holders, recorded net emigration in most years." Huang Liuquan said that according to the population data released by the SAR government and the explanations made by the spokesman, it is not very appropriate to describe Hong Kong as a "wave of immigrants". He also noted that the Hong Kong SAR government has been very active in attracting talents to Hong Kong. He believed that Hong Kong's highly free, open and standardized business environment, smooth and convenient international contacts, the common law system and low tax system implemented, the cultural environment of the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, especially Hong Kong's geographical advantages of relying on the motherland and connecting the world, will certainly attract more talents to Hong Kong to carry out their ambitions. (Liu Xinshe)