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indoor, some 20 full size swimming pool complexes and 27
multi-purpose games halls. The Jubilee Sports Centre provides facilities and coaching for talented performers in a number of
sports.
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Hong Kong also possesses 21 country parks covering some 40 per cent of the territory's land mass. They now receive around 10 million visitors a year and provide excellent opportunities for a
largely urban population to enjoy the open countryside.
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Broadcasting
A new statutory Broadcasting Authority, with responsibility for the regulation of all aspects of wireless television, was established on 1 September 1987. Its functions will later be
extended to cover radio and cable television. Consultants were also
commissioned to study and report on the technical and economic implications of introducing a second domestic telecommunications network, a matter relevant not only to the introduction of cable television, but also to a wide range of other telecommunications services. When the consultants' report has been considered and
decisions taken on its findings, the Hong Kong Government hope to be
in a position, in the second half of 1988, to invite tenders for a
cable television service.
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Plans are still being considered concerning the future of the publicly funded Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). The Hong Kong Government intend to introduce legislation in the course of 1988 to provide for the establishment of an independent Board of Governors to oversee the functioning of the service which is at present directly responsible to the Government.
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
(a) Long Term Strategic Development Planning
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For some years now the Hong Kong Government have been conducting studies on strategy for the long term physical development of the territory stretching beyond the current new towns
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