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(a) that Hong Kong will remain as a free port and
international centre of business, commerce and
trade;
(b)
that Hong Kong can not only be maintained as it is
but also become more prosperous;
(c)
that the social system and life style will not
change.
7.
In envisaging a capitalist economic system continuing in
part of China, the Chinese Communist leaders would not see
themselves as making a fundamental break with Marxist-Leninist
principle. The use of capitalist methods to aid the revolution
was justified by Lenin in his New Economic Policy of the '20s.
The Chinese modern equivalent is the use of capitalism in Hong
Kong to aid the 'four modernisations'. To some extend the
enouragement of foreign capital in the existing Special Economic
Zones already involves a concession to non-socialist ideas.
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