Since the 1980s the Hong Kong media have repeatedly voiced the concern that unless something was done soon to improve on the mixture of Chinese and English spoken in Hong Kong, not only would students have language problems, but the quality of the workforce would also be impaired.
八○年代迄今，香港輿論頻頻呼籲：再不改善香港中英混雜的狀態，香港學生不僅語言不好，人力素質也會因此下降。