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It has been pointed out to us that if Hong Kong is to
sustain its industrial capacity it must have much greater
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technical education for young people and there's not a
very great deal being done about this at the moment.
you have any plans for this in mind.
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I can't accept that there isn't there aren't impo IMPORTANT things being done in this field.It is an important field
If Hong Kong is going to maintain prosperity for its
population,
got to be as modern and as efficient and in
its industrail techniques. The difficulty of course, is
that there are a number of educational priorities in Hong
King, The colony already spends, I think 80% of its total
budget on educations, which is a high percentage and there
but are great demands for things like primary education,
technical education is regarded by the Hong Kong government
as having a very high priority
there's an extention to the existing technical school, there's
a new technical institute on its way, and there are two new
I think this secondary technical schools also on there way.
is a reasonably good response to what is certainly a real
problem.
Secretary of State, how do you see the future of Hong Kong.
risen Well immediately I think Hong Kong has ridden through this ordeal
with the courage and the fortitude that she's risen through
previous difficult periods, I'm certainly hopeful in the period
immediately ahead now, that the Chinese are beginning to adopt
a more reasonable attitude and I think one can have some prospect, I always hate to prophesy, but I think one can have some prospect
of a return to more normal relationships between the mainland of