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An outspoken pro-establishment LegCo lawmaker Junius Ho Kwan-yiu plans to establish a center for national security education with 8 million Hong Kong dollar ($1.03 million), aiming to supervise reforms of liberal studies subjects at local schools while reporting public opinion to the new national security committee and other relevant authorities to further implement the national security law for Hong Kong.
Ho, who is widely known for his patriotic spirit and harsh criticism of anti-government protests in 2019 that turned into rioting, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview recently that with the support of Cao Fushun, a new resident of Hong Kong from the Chinese mainland, he will take the initiative of launching a national security education center under the International Probono Legal Services Association (IPLSA), a non-profit organization established by Ho in 2018.
The center will include some retired teachers and principals to supervise the curriculum and teaching at local schools while launching two funds entitled "saving children" and "never too late to correct mistakes" to help young Hong Kong people who took part in anti-government riots last year to get back to normal life, Ho said.
The lawmaker hopes the center, which would be the first of its kind in Hong Kong, will play big role in helping implement the national security law for Hong Kong that took effect since June. It would formulate close communication with relevant authorities including the committee for safeguarding national security and the office for safeguarding national security of the central government in Hong Kong - two major authorities set up when the law came into force.