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Question No. 1
Reply by the Hon. E.P. Ho, CBE, JP, Secretary for Trade and Industry
to a question by the Hon. Wong Po-yan, OBE, JP in Legislative Council on 12 June 1985
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Will the Government make a statement about its policy and plans for developing high technology for manufacturing industries and report on progress achieved so far in this area?
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The Government sees its role as providing
an adequate infrastructure to enable industry to function
efficiently with the minimum of interference.
In this
way it is hoped that higher technology manufacturing
industry will be attracted to Hong Kong.
2.
Advice on the provision of services and
facilities needed by industry is channelled to Government
principally through the Industry Development Board (IDB)
on which major trade and industrial organsiations are
represented.
3.
On the recommendation of the IDB, public
funds have been provided for three research projects
related to electronics and computer-aided-design technology
which are being undertaken by the two Universities and
the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
In addition, a phased programme
has been implemented to conduct, on a regular basis,
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