(香港，2023年5月17日) 政府公布擴大「人才清單」，涵蓋更多專業，以吸引更多高質素人才來港，其中包括發展及建造專才。香港工程師學會 (下稱「學會」) 認為有關措施有助解決業內短期的人手問題，唯有關措施須確保工程師的待遇得以持續改善。
學會一向以推動香港工程的專業水平、為會員謀求福利和提升資歷標準為宗旨，並積極推動工程師以專業科學、全心全意態度為市民提供優質工程服務，並培育優質接班人。面對未來社會發展的需要，對各方面工程人才的需求有增無減，學會去年向政府提交三份報告，建議從改善投標制度杜絕低價搶標情況達致改善工程師，特別是年青工程師待遇及工作環境；檢討中學課程以擴充本地工程及相關專業人才庫；推動運用創新科技、精簡審批流程等方法，務求以更少資源、更高效率完成工程。
學會留意到政府表示人力政策會以培育本地人才為主，引入外來人才為輔，擴大「人才清單」有助吸納更多高質素人才，支持香港經濟及社會的高質量發展。學會認為，要在短期內解決業界面對的人手問題，積極引入非本地工程人才實屬無可避免。事實上，申請者需要持有相關學士或以上學位，並具備最少三年相關工作經驗，且對現有專業資格要求並無改變，不會對維持本港工程專業服務質素帶來影響。在現行制度下，簡化相關申請程序，有助解決短期人力需求之餘，亦有助本地建造業界及從業員在維持高質素的專業服務同時分散工作量，提高效率。
學會將一如既往，繼續為社會提供專業、客觀、科學的意見，並確保工程師專業得以持續健康發展，配合社會發展需要，學會亦樂意為政府提供相關專業意見，貢獻社會。
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(Hong Kong, 17 May 2023) The government has announced the expansion of the Talent List, which now covers more professions, in order to attract more high-quality talent to Hong Kong, including those with expertise in development and construction. While The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (hereafter "the HKIE") believes that the measure will help address the short-term manpower shortage in the industry, it also emphasises the need for corresponding measures to continual enhancing the engineers' remuneration packages.
The HKIE has always aimed to promote the professional standards of engineering in Hong Kong, protect members’ benefits, and enhance the profession’s qualification standards. While cultivating high-quality successors, it also actively motivates engineers to provide the public with highest quality engineering services in a professional, scientific, and dedicated manners. In response to the ever-increasing demand for engineering talent in various fields—which is a demand engendered by society’s future developmental needs—the HKIE submitted three reports to the government last year. In the reports, proposals were made to curtail significantly low bids by reviewing the procurement systems and thereby improve the remuneration package and working conditions of engineers, especially the young ones; to enlarge engineering’s and related professions’ local talent pool by reviewing secondary school curricula; to deliver engineering projects with fewer resources but greater efficiency by promoting the use of innovative technologies and the streamlining of submission and approval processes.
The HKIE noted the government's statement that the main thrust of its manpower policy is to nurture local talent and that the attraction of outside talent is supplementary. The expansion of the Talent List will help attract more top-notch talent and support Hong Kong’s high-quality economical and societal development. The HKIE considers that, in order to solve the imminent manpower problem faced by the industry, it is inevitable to tap actively into non-local engineering talent. In fact, applicants are required to hold a bachelor's degree or above in a relevant discipline and have at least three years of relevant work experience, while the existing requirements for professional qualifications remain unchanged, a fact that ensure the quality of Hong Kong’s professional engineering services unaffected. Under the current system, simplifying the relevant application procedures can not only help meet manpower demands in the short term but also achieve greater efficiency (while maintaining a high level of professional services) by sharing the workload among more construction industry practitioners.
The HKIE will, as before, continue to provide our society with professional, objective, and scientific opinions, ensure the sustainable and healthy development of the engineering profession, and respond to the developmental needs of society. The HKIE is also obliged to provide the government with relevant professional opinions, thereby doing its part to contribute to our society.
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