I only know in this stage, Hongkong people will get prioritised in the paper based PR application as stated in
CIC website.
We can confirm there is some sort of prioritising algorithm from seeing some people their processing time is dramatically shorter than most of us (some that even close to the EE which only took a few months after AOR), but not necessarily base on NOC. It can be region that the applicant live in, original nationality, or combination of many, etc.
As we collect more data, we might able to see their algorithm.
@bbjeon38 did a really good job on collecting/sorting data. Thanks.