The 8th Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Legislative Council election will be held on December 7th, and the nomination period for the election will run from October 24th to November 6th. On the morning of the 23rd, the Hong Kong SAR government and the Electoral Affairs Commission held the launching ceremony for the 2025 Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council election. The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Carrie Lam, attended and delivered a speech, stating that the 8th Legislative Council election is a major event in the process of Hong Kong's transition from rule to prosperity, accelerating economic development and improving people's livelihoods, and affecting all Hong Kong citizens. He called for a city wide vote on December 7th to create a better future together. Li Jiachao pointed out that after improving the electoral system of the Special Administrative Region, the coverage of the Hong Kong Legislative Council will be more comprehensive and balanced, with more diverse voices and opinions, reflecting both regional and sectoral interests as well as the overall interests of Hong Kong. The performance of the seventh Legislative Council over the past four years fully demonstrates that under the principle of executive led governance and "patriots governing Hong Kong", the operation of the Legislative Council has returned to the right track, and the executive and legislative branches have effectively and positively interacted, balancing and cooperating with each other. The achievements are obvious to all. Li Jiachao emphasized that on the basis of this successful practice, the smooth holding of the 8th Legislative Council election will be ensured, demonstrating the broad representativeness, political inclusiveness, balanced participation, and fair competition of the electoral system. In his speech, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Electoral Affairs Commission, Lu Qikang, pointed out that the new electoral system demonstrates broad representativeness, political inclusiveness, balanced participation, and fair competition, laying a solid foundation for the long-term and healthy development of democracy in Hong Kong. Lu Qikang emphasized that the responsibility of the Election Management Committee is to ensure that elections are conducted in an open, fair, honest, safe, orderly, efficient, and humane manner. In fact, Hong Kong's public elections have always had a very good reputation internationally in terms of openness, honesty, and fairness. (New Society)