Hong Kong Government Jobs Show Record High Number of Resignations, Double the Previous Year

Record Low Applications for Top Government Roles

Civil servants on their way to the Hong Kong government offices. Song Bi-long/The Epoch Times

Hong Kong’s civil service resignations have reached a scale not seen since the city’s handover to China in 1997.

The city’s Civil Service Bureau (CSB) recently disclosed that 10,487 civil servants left their jobs in the year 2021-2022, of which 3,743 resigned—double last year’s number, according to the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP). Other reasons for departure included retirement, not renewing their contract, dismissal, and death.