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invest HK$2,500 m., to be recovered through toll charges. The project, with its proposed bridge or tunnel across the
mouth of the Pearl River, is sc ambitious that its full materialisation seems improbable. Separately, Henry Fok, a
leading Hong Kong businessman, has agreed to finance a more realisitic proposal, namely the construction of four bridges on the Macau/Guangzhou highway so as to replace existing ferries.
This would cost HK$120 m. and the terms are such that Fok appears to regard this as in the nature of a gift.
Education
13.
Two more inactive communist schools have now closed,
leaving 24 schools still open, with pupils totalling some 14,200, i.e. about 1% of Hong Kong's school population. The leading secondary schools among those which survive have gained
good results in the recent Hong Kong Certificate of Education anal change
examination, with the Fukien Middle School achieving an 86% pass
rate. In standards of management and instruction, these schools now differ little from the independent secondary schools.
14.
According to Guangdong Radio, the prominent Hong Kong businessman, Li Ka-shing, head of Cheung Kong Holdings, has
donated HK$60 m. for the building of a university at Shantou.
The Media
15.
Senior officials from the NCNA and editors of the
three communist newspapers in Hong Kong went to Beijing for meetings preparatory to a Hong Kong and Macau Press Work Conference likely to be held in Guangzhou in September.
16.
The owner of the independent "Centre Daily News", Fu Chiu-shu (who was previously the owner of a Taiwan newspaper taken over by the Taiwan authorities) also visited Beijing and
was received by LIAO Chengzhi, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. This was similar treatment, though in a lower key,
to that given to the publisher of Ming Pao (para 16, July 1981 Report).
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/ para 17.