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Mayor tipped to move up: The Standard quoted from a Ming Pao report which said the Mayor of Guangzhou, Mr. Liang Lingguang, would soon replace Liu Tianfu as Guangdong governor; the new Mayor would be the vice-governor, Mr. Ye Xuangping. Mr. Liu had been appointed to the new Central Advisory Commission chaired by Mr. Deng Xiaoping. The changes were said to be the result of current policy of replacing elderly officials with younger administrators.
Reform Club plans China visit: A Reform Club spokesman was quoted in the SCMP saying it would send a 12-member delegation to China to express views about HK's future after Urbco elections on March 8; it would inform Beijing of the results of its survey which found that 93 per cent of 1 000 people canvassed wanted to be ruled by Britain, either under the present system or as a trust territory.
Letters: Last week's summary covered a letter from Mr. F. Leung who said it was the HK ethic which was responsible for HK's success; in the Asian Wall Street Journal of 14/15 January Kingsley Liu of HK said one of the most important ingredients of our economic success was the people. A motto for an electronics company in the US was: "Assets make things possible, but people make things happen". Perhaps, wrote Mr. Liu, this motto could also serve to remind everyone of what stuff we, the HK people, were made.
Ancient Gweilo, replying to a letter in the SCMP from Belonger (see last week's summary), said he agreed with Belonger's wholly sensible views of course Beijing could be relied upon to deal with rapacious landlords. And when the Chinese authorities did take
to a greater or lesser extent Ancient Gweilo hoped they would introduce the death penalty for drug traffickers.
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Y.B. Low-Ito wrote urging Britain to take a strong stand and not yield on the principle of the sovereignty issue in the negotiations into which she was so ill-advised to
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A letter from "Sesame" in the SCMP on 16 January, entitled 'It's time HK put the pressure on', said if we wished the present system to continue we must now spare no effort to meet the challenge of the future by concerted effort; the stakes involved were not just prosperity, they meant survival, not for Britain or China, but for Hong Kong.
China and HK students to_exchange_views on 1997: Students from China are to exchange views with local students on the future of HK and China's development. The head of the students' delegation, Mr. Wu Xuefan, said both HK and China students agreed that that there was no doubt that HK belonged to China; we all shared the hope of unifying and strengthening China.
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