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The Young Plan was a constitutional reform proposal named after the then Hong Kong Governor Mark Young carried out in 1946 attempting to introduce representative democracy in Colonial Hong Kong. It was the very first important reform proposal intended to give Hong Kong inhabitants a more responsible share of managing their own affairs by widening the base of Hong Kong's political system through the creation of a new Municipal Council. The proposed council consisted of an elected majority of the Municipal Council based on fairly wide franchise and given powers and autonomy over all urban services, education, social welfare, town planning and other functions. It even allowed for indirect election of two Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong form the new council. Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council were opposed to the transfer of power to the new body and the Young's successor, Governor Alexander Grantham who was opposed to the Young Plan, did not press this issue. Discussion dragged on but the continued opposition of Unofficials in LegCo in addition to the fear of potential Communist China's penetration finally killed the plan in 1952. This was the last move towards any form of major electorally based government until in the 1980s during the Sino-British negotiations on Hong Kong's sovereignty. ==Background== The demand and attempts for constitutional reform in Hong Kong had occurred from time to time, but it had been an intractable problem for the Colonial Government due to the overwhelmingly majority of the Chinese population. Until during the Second World War when Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation, the collapse of the British imperial power in East Asia in the face of Japanese onslaught and also the emergence of a demand form the Chinese Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek for the retrocession of Hong Kong during the war, forced the British Government to seriously examine the possibility of constitutional reform in post-war Hong Kong. By the Young Plan, the Colonial Government meant to create a sense of belonging and loyalty to Hong Kong among all its inhabitants regardless of race in the shadow of increasing Chinese influence over the local population and also China's demand for the return of Hong Kong. Soon after the Nazi Germany was defeated in Europe, the Labour Party was elected to the government in London. The Labour Government pledged to introduce self-government throughout the British Empire including Hong Kong. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Young Plan (Hong Kong)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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