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Hong Kong haze bodes ill for investors, survey finds
Bloomberg News

Published: August 28, 2006

The worsening air quality in Hong Kong is making it less attractive to foreign investors and driving away foreign workers, according to a survey of company executives by the American Chamber of Commerce here.

More than half of the executives in the survey said they knew of people who had refused to work in Hong Kong because of the pollution.

Hong Kong’s attractiveness to foreign investors will drop in the future, said 79 percent of the respondents in the survey, which was conducted from June 19 to 30 and published Sunday. The survey polled 140 executives from the group’s member companies, which employ 250,000 people in Hong Kong.

Pollution from Hong Kong’s power plants, vehicles and Guangdong Province contributes to a haze that has in the past 20 years quadrupled the number of low-visibility days, according to government data. Deteriorating air quality cost the city $220 million in medical bills last year, the University of Hong Kong estimates.

"Air pollution not only threatens our health but Hong Kong’s preeminent position as the financial-services capital of Asia," said Alan Seigrist, chairman of the business group’s environment committee.

The survey says 95 percent of the respondents are worried about the effect air quality has on their health. And 59 percent said companies would invest more money elsewhere if the current air-pollution trend continued.

The pollution has led to difficulties in recruiting people to work in Hong Kong, according to 39 percent of the respondents.