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sink.
Lu clearly took the point. He asked whether
the Hong Kong Government had now shelved its plans for a second
airport. CS pointed out that on the latest figures, Kai Tak
would be sufficient for many years to come. However we had
heard reports of plans for a Shenzhen airport. This was of
great interest. It might be that this could take care of
Hong Kong's needs, at least in respect of local traffic.
We needed to know more. Mr. Boyd said that early information
would help us to get our own infra- structure investment
decisions right in the northern New Territories. We had now
acquired a mutually beneficial habit of matching our border
projects with Shenzhen, as at Lowu and over the Shataukok
bridge/China Mountain tunnel. Mr. Li confirmed this; there
was also a need to upgrade the road to Mankamto.
7.
Mr. Boyd expressed satisfaction at daily conduct of
cross border relations. The system worked well. There had
been enormous growth in passenger traffic in the last ten
years and the experts on both sides coped well with holiday
bulges. There were of course some financial constraints.
no consultant, ten years ago, would have predicted 20-30
million in 1985. CS underlined the scope of current cross
border movements and the Hong Kong Government's satisfaction
with their management. Hong Kong would, as he saw it, be
a close economic partner of Guangdong, in particular a key
element in the rapid'y growing prosperity of the whole
Pearl River Delta Recon, well into the next century. The
general trend added enormously to understanding of and good
But