OCT 03 '86 16:39 TIB(OOU) HK GOVT
3
P.41-
Friday, September 19: Yesterday's meeting in Peking between the Legco delegation and Chinese officials received extensive coverage in the media today. Reports said the director, of the Nuclear Electricity Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Nuclear Industry, Ma Fubang, and other Chinese experts exchanged views with the Legco delegation on the observations in the Legco report »
Remarks by Maria Tam and Allen Lee after the meeting were extensively reported. Reports said the Chinese side had agreed to a proposal for a cross-border agreement to monitor the Daya Bay plant. Details would be discussed between the Guangzhou and Shenzhen authorities and the HK Government.
Chinese official Zhou Ping described the observations made in the Legco report as positive and constructive and said that the Chinese Government had instructed the authorities and experts concerned to study them carefully.
The HK Daily News and the HK Standard, said the Chinese Government would not guarantee that the price of electricity to be supplied from Daya Bay would be cheaper than that of conventionally-generated electricity for 30 years. The Chinese had given a six-year price guarantee. Ming Pao said the Chinese officials did not give a guarantea on the Legco delegation's observations, particularly those on the economic aspects, but they said many of the observations had already been adopted or would be adopted.
Allen Lee said as the delegation had obtained some new information on the economic aspects of the project from the Chinese, the Legco team would take this up with China Light for more details.
Chinese official Ma Fubang was widely quoted in the papers. Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po carried the full speech Mr Ma delivered in the meating. He spoke on four main anpence. On a suggestion to build a sand filter at Daya Bay, he said this would be considered after receiving a detailed report from France.
On the question of international cooperation, Mr Ma said China had already considered inviting the lus.nesional Atomic Energy Agency's Pre-OSART team to inspect the Daya Bay sire and inviting the IAEA's OSART team to inspect the plant after it started operating. Mr Ma also gave a guarantee on the management and operating skill of the staff manning the plant. On public education and environmental protection, Mr Ma said China would draw up a comprehensive, effective and practical contingency plan. He noted that nuclear waste would be transported to scarcely populated areas for treatment.
1