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abox. Mie le ospecially so because in the loat tuo yearu, dua to rapid economic development between Guangdong and Hong Kong, inport and export trades have multiplied and as a result the number who travel between the two places has also increased correspondingly. Under such circumstances, there is no ranson why the inland authorities should not approve their people's applications to come to Hong Kong, and the
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Hong Kong authorities should have no reason to restrict them from entering the territory. When the cultural revolution just came to an end, were there not some nations which socmed sexious about "human rights" and "humanitarianisa" and requested China to let her people leave the country to visit their relativos abroad on those grounds? As far as I know, theco who want to come to Hong Kong to visit relatives or to trade are not just in terms of hundreds but in terms of how many hundred thousand in number. If they exe all allowed to come at once, even 10 Hong Kongs may not be able to accommodate them all. I think it is out of consideration for Hong Kong that the Chinese authorities have refrained from mooting the wishes of the multitudos who would very much like to visit their relatives now, and have regulated the number who leave China daily. This control by the authorities makes some of those who had intended just to make a short stay hare and then returned to China stay on when they find it is so difficult to be given permission to come. Some people say the people in China surge to Hong Kong to visit the economy in China and the life of the poople there are at the moment not as good as that in Hong Kong. Chinese people hava always attached importance to caring for ona'e family members and relatives. It would not be right to stop those in the inland from visiting their relatives in Hong Kong and Macau just because they are poor and those in Hong Kong are rich. How could the Immigration Authorities allow 100 persone to enter and disregard humanitarianism by refusing entry to the others.
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Finally, some people say Hong Kong has to restrict the number of legal irmigranta because the inland authorities are relaxing their policy in iscuing exit pernito. That is ridiculous. It should be epparent to Hong Kong that the inland authorities have no intention to make things more difficult for Hong Kong in allowing people in the two places to visit one another. In Sir Murray HaoLehose's address at the opening session of the Legislative Comeil en 10th October last year, he pointed out that he could not agzoa to the view that the surge of legal and illegal immigrants into Hong Kong was a strategy designed to lower the living standard in Hong Kong
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