Can we have a local Nobel Prize Winner in future?

After Professor Charles Kao has won the Nobel Prize of Physics, some people asked whether one day we will have a local Nobel Prize winner. I feel that not many local students will choose doing research as their career, since they need to concentrate on a research area for many years, and no one can tell them how much failure they need to face before they can get some results. Many students don't have patience, they just want to earn as much money as they can within 5 or 10 years. Also the HK government is short-sighted, if a researcher has applied for a research grant but can't give some significant results within 2-3 years, the government may discontinue the support on this research topic. Those people don't understand that some research works need more than 10 years to get significant results, they just treating research work as a business, need to gain maximum profit in minimum time. How can a researcher concentrate on his research work if he always needs to worry the funding? Since the government doesn't encourage research work, some students who like doing research will choose to work overseas especially UK and USA. Even though one day we have a local Nobel Prize Winner, it is just because this scholar has worked very hard and with a strong will, not because the government has a good support for the local scholars.