Many people see political motives behind the expansion of Mandarin teaching, and the group in Hong Kong most actively studying Mandarin today, apart from business people and shop staff, are Hong Kong's tens of thousands of civil servants. But schoolchildren are too young to be suspected of angling for a slice of the post-colonial government cake.
不少人將普通話的學習與政治掛上等號，如今在香港，積極學普通話的族群，商人、店員之外，更多的是香港政府的幾十萬公務員。