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People - Our Greatest Asset Hong Kong has a flexible, well-educated and industrious workforce of more than 3 million which, coupled with entrepreneurial flair, maintains economic vibrancy, productivity and creativity. There is rarely industrial trouble in Hong Kong Unemployment rates are low - work ethic high More than 80% of the workforce is employed in service industries English remains the lingua franca of the business community and widely taught in schools Nine years free compulsory education, with 90% of children going on to higher levels of secondary education 22% of 17-20 year olds go into post secondary education, of whom three-quarters go to university

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