people from China in 1978/79/80 (mostly illegal immigrants) set back realisation of some targets by another 2 years, and also held back the strong rise in real wages since 1975. So, in some respects, particularly in housing and road transport, and to some extent medical services, we are running 3 or 4 years late. Nor have industrial workers shared consistently in the benefits of the economy's growth though they should do so now that illegal immigration is contained. But in other fields Hong Kong has come on very fast. The speed with which it has developed as one of the largest financial centres in the world, and at the same time has steadily expanded and diversified its industry and so employed the artificially swollen population, were far beyond expectation. Similarly its development as a container port from nothing 8 years ago to the 3rd largest in the world to-day has been staggering, and has recovered Hong Kong's old entrepot role. Moreover public interest and participation in Government (which is rather different from any demand for political power) has grown remarkably; perhaps the result of a higher proportion of the articulate population being Hong Kong born, and being educated along western lines. Support for and development of things relevant to the quality of life - Western and Chinese music and dance, the arts, recreation of all sorts, enjoyment of the countryside, concern for cleanliness in the streets, and demand for preservation of the environment, have all sprouted in a way which was unforeseeable 10 years ago. Hong Kong has become a minor centre of the arts and within 4 or 5 years will be a major one. These things have been made possible by the leisure that affluence and new labour legislation have brought. But use of these new opportunities in these ways has been encouraged by determined government leadership, administration and expenditure.
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