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In response to media enquiries about safeguarding national security, a spokesperson from Education Bureau (EDB) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said on Tuesday that safeguarding national security is the government’s responsibility, as well as the obligation of the whole community of Hong Kong, according to a press release posted on the website of the HKSAR government.

It is also part and parcel of the routine school work in promoting national security education, said the EDB spokesperson.

With the implementation of the national security law in Hong Kong for five years, Hong Kong has transited “from chaos to stability” and “from stability to prosperity”. The EDB has adopted a “multi-pronged and co-ordinated” approach, including activities inside and outside the classroom, to strengthen students’ understanding of Chinese culture, the Constitution and the Basic Law, and their awareness of law-abiding in promoting patriotic education, according to the release posted on the website.

The EDB has issued detailed administrative and educational guidelines to schools, requiring them to establish school-based mechanisms and formulate appropriate measures according to their own circumstances and needs to implement various tasks related to safeguarding national security and national security education, said the release.

“Schools have the responsibility to play a good gate-keeper role and to enhance the sensitivity of teachers and students to national security,” said the EDB spokesperson. 

Schools offering non-local curricula also have the responsibility to help their students, regardless of their ethnicity and nationality, acquire a correct and objective understanding and appreciation of the concept of national security and the national security law in Hong Kong, as well as the duty to cultivate a law-abiding spirit among their students, the spokesperson noted, according to the release.

The spokesperson noted that the EDB will continue to monitor and support schools in implementing the relevant work through various channels, such as daily communication with schools.

Global Times