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Hong Kong for 50 years after 1997, it is to the interests of
all concerned that there should be:
(A) no radical restructuring, either by way of too
(B)
rapid decolonization by the British Government
before 1997, and
no attempt to straddle the Legislative and
Executive Councils with some form of extraneous and
unwieldy Executive Advisory Council.
Let us retain intact in Hong Kong the best of the
Hong Kong administrative experience, and build on it in the
light of the "One Country Two Systems" concept to China's
own unique form of socialism and 5,000 years history and
civilization, and the economic and social needs and energies
of her one billion people, who will be 1.2 billion by the
year 1997.
thought:
In closing, may I leave with you this intriguing
With the coming of the 21st century, are we on the
threshold of the unity of the Yin and Yang of
mainland China's market socialism and Hong Kong's
entrepreneurial capitalism which epitomizes
Deng Xiao-ping's "One Country Two Systems"
concept?
would be:
If you should ask me today for an answer,
it
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God helps those who help themselves, so let us
all work hard at it and hope it comes off just
right in the end. "