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He added: there was nothing wrong for the then persecuted masses to struggle,...but the then leadership was wrong. .There were struggle committees at all levels at that time. It was not wrong for any person to be a member of a struggle committee at that time. However, the then leadership made mistakes, thus causing bad results and quite a few consequences having a long-term bad influence.
He said:. officials of the Hong Kong Government, including the Governor, the Chief Secretary and the Secretary for the New Territories, are now repeatedly saying that China is on unprecedentedly good terms with Britain. This is a fact. With regard to Sino-British relations, we should recognize that there are areas of agreement and contradictions. It is unnecessary to talk about the areas of agreement, as for handling contradictions, we must concretely analyze them and handle them in accordance with the general guiding line; we must never handle them by adopting the 1967 measures for opposing the British and resisting atrocity. At that time, there were contradictions between labor and management and there were contradictions between policemen and people. These contradictions could have been rationally settled by waging proper struggles. It was only because of Lin Piao's exploitation that the incident turned into a very unfavourable situation.
He continued:
From now on, we must grasp the essence of the general situation and learn the past experience and lesson. We must realize that Hong Kong is not an isolated area and that Hong Kong is influenced by various international factors. For us, Hong Kong has its bad aspect and good aspect. From now on, we must make full use of its useful aspect so as to help our four modernizations. There will be struggle, but we must correctly handle them. We must never constantly ask our Government to help us in handling struggles.
Chi Feng admitted in his speech that Hong Kong has scored great economic achievements in recent years. The current policy of the C C P is to view Hong Kong's achievements 'seriously. The previous practice only exaggerated the superiority of socialism and ignored all achievements scored by capitalist societies.
He said: it is not only Hong Kong that has scored economic achievements. Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have also scored achievements. These four small areas in Asia have undergone great economic changes. These are worth noticing. The previous propaganda in Hong Kong publicized that a certain city had turned itself from a consumer city into a producer city. With regard to those who conducted the propaganda, we realize that they conducted the propaganda with good intentions. But they always say that Hong Kong is still a consumer city. This shows that they do not under- stand the case of Hong Kong. They actually place producer city in opposition to consumer city. This way of assessing things is wrong. This is because production and consumption
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