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with the Castle Peak A and B power station orders, our participation
in the Mass Transit and Kowloon-Canton railways and other orders
like the steelwork for the new Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building.
We appreciate as well as anybody that we have no prescriptive right
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to do well in your very challenging and competitive market. We have
the benefit of our long standing relationship with you, the English
language and our appreciation of your legal and financial framework.
But in the end our success will have to depend on our own efforts
ad short, on that competitiveness which I laid so much stress upon
earlier. We offer an advanced, competent and comprehensive
manufacturing sector, a highly skilled service economy and a capacity
to put together very attractive large scale packages, embodying
goods, technology and finance. We shall continue to interest ourselves
greatly in the development of your economy, notably the further
infrastructure projects for which we can offer you a good deal.
We realise Hong Kong is more than railways and electrical power.
So we have an eye also to other areas like your attractive market
for quality consumer goods, building and construction and electronics.
We hope our growing expertise in the advanced products of information
technology, to which we are paying so much attention, will be of
increasing interest to you. We back up the efforts of our business-
men with official export credit facilities which bear comparison
with any country's and the support of the export promotion services
of the British Overseas Trade-Board,
I have no doubt that the scope for Hong Kong/UK mutual trade to
grow is there. It is up to both of us to seize the opportunity.