However, while creating a trend to go to Guangdong for retirement, this scheme actually has received rather controversial comments since it was first launched. As stated in China News, the data from The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions indicates that 80% of the aged people would like to go to Guangdong for their retirement. Furthermore, according to the reports from Wenweipo's journalists [10], numerous aged people living in Guangzhou were interviewed and they expressed their hope for Hong Kong government to remain and continue the arrangement and let more aged people enjoy the welfare in their later life. Those aged people think that the cost of living is relatively low in Guangdong compared with Hong Kong (although the cost of living in mainland is still increasing). In addition, the conditions of housing's and community's environment in mainland is better than Hong Kong and the slower pace of life is more suitable for the elderly. As estimated by Social Welfare Department (SWD), 30,000 aged people are qualified for the applications, but they just received about 18,700 applications. This indicated the existence of people who doubted this scheme or failed to apply for it. Some commenters argued the main reason is that the process of application(as mentioned above in eligibility criteria part) is so complicated that numerous aged people fail to complete it or do not want to be bothered completing it. Moreover, even though some of the elderly successfully passed through the whole process, they will still face many problems in their further lives in mainland China. Their special identities make it difficult for them to access medical and health services with medical insurance; the commodity price in Guangdong keeps raising in recent years and narrows the gap between Hong Kong and Guangdong. The increase of living cost in Guangdong makes Hong Kong’s aged people hesitate to follow the flow of migrating.) While numerous commenters and experts viewed this scheme as a plan to "export" the Hong Kong elderly to Guangdong for more resources, a report from South China Morning Post recently introduced another view, which regarded this scheme as a plan to "facilitate". The labor and welfare chief introduced this idea of "portable welfare" and some specific methods to achieve that. They managed to utilize two Guangdong care home facilities run by Hong Kong charities to reduce the waiting time of Hong Kong aged people to receive health care. In this way, the act of "exporting the elderly" changes to a much simpler act of "buying places". “We are breaking new grounds in terms of portability of welfare benefits," said the welfare chief.