Background
A.
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
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1. Sir Y K shares Chinese concerns over the pace of constitutional change in Hong Kong and has in the past sought to reflect these to
Ministers.
B.
BASIC LAW
2.
Sir Y K is one of 8 Vice-Chairmen of the Basic Law Drafting
Committee (BLDC).
He has He does not play a very active part. however been appointed Co-Chairman of the "Basic Law Overall Working Group" which will be responsible for editing and checking all draft articles produced by the BLDC's sub-group and producing a "timetable" version of the entire Basic Law for the seventh plenary of the BLDC, scheduled for the first quarter of 1988.
C.
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CHINESE PARTY CONGRESS
3.
Latest indications are that next week's Party Congress (begins 25 October) will endorse the general direction of China's reform It is still not programme, but without setting out the details.
clear who will be promoted in China's leadership, but the conservatives are likely to retain considerable influence.
D.
NINGBO UNIVERSITY
4.
Sir Y K Pao has paid for the construction of a University at Ningbo. Mr Walden, Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Department of Education and Science, attended the opening of the University earlier this year. When he called on Mr Patten, on 14 October, Sir Y K Pao said that he proposed that the university library should be named after the Prime Minister. The Secretary of State can take this opportunity to offer to supply the new library at Ningbo with books worth £10,000. It would also be possible for the British Council to set up a link between Ningbo and an appropriate institution in this country. (About 100 such links, involving visits and other exchanges, are already financed jointly by the ODA
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