电力有限公司
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CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY, LIMITED
147 ARGYLE STREET, KOWLOON, HONG KONG.
telephone: 3-016111
telor: 75482 LIGHT HX cables; LIGHTPOWER HONG KONG
Please address all letters to the Company
our ref:
your ref:
Sir James Woodeson, (Chairman),
Clarke Chapman Limited,
Victoria Works,
Gateshead,
Tyne and Wear, NE8 3HS,
U.K.
Dear
Gising.
20th May, 1977 ·
25 MANY 1977
Many thanks for your kind letter of 3rd May, 1977, and for your interest and help with our project. Sir Lawrence was very pleased to receive your letter and, like me, he was greatly encouraged by your enthusiastic support. I am sure we are all trying to achieve the same objective.
In view of the developments which we assume are taking place within the U.K. Government circle, it is a policy of our Company not to take any action with contractors which may inhibit any proposals made by Her Majesty's Government. The attached copy letter from Mr. A.H. Williams
seems to indicate that our proposals are still being seriously considered. Time, however, is rather pressing if we are to have our first 350MW unit in operation by 1982. As you know, our load growth last year was 16% and we are now already running at 12% above last year's figure.
If our growth rate for future years continues at such a high level, then we shall. need to advance the first set to April 1981.
Recently Sir Lawrence had a meeting with the China Resources (commercial arm of the People's Republic) about the possibility of their providing us with coal and at the same time exchanging this for british mining equipment. I understand from correspondence between the Hong Kong Governor and the British Ambassador in Peking that some 20 million worth of British equipment was sold some years ago to the Chinese. It would be
interesting to know which companies were involved and their method of doing business with Peking.
In all probability I shall be in the U.K. towards the end of June or beginning of July and would like to have the opportunity of discussing with you the possible involvement of your companies out here in Hong Kong, both from the point of view of setting up manufacturing facilities, and also the sale of equipment. We must bear in mind that the transmission development of this Company will involve almost as much capital expenditure as the new Power Station.
Sir Lawrence will be on leave at the beginning of July, and has told me that he would be very willing to come to the U.K. at any time, if we thought this would be helpful in any way to either our project as already discussed with the U.K. Government or to any other sections of British industry.