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11.
Quality promotion services, which involve the
attainment of internationally recognised standards, calibration
services and laboratory accreditation services, are currently
provided by the Industry Department and they are of common
application to all manufacturing processes. These services
are quite well developed in technological terms, as evidenced
by the accreditation of the Standards and Calibration Laboratory
by Britain's National Physical Laboratory last year. The
most logical progression for these individual quality promotion
services lies in their orderly development in response to
demand, and in securing international recognition for their
integrity, so that certificates issued by the competent
authorities here may become widely accepted by Hong Kong's
major trading partners.
12.
Turning now to the inward investment promotion,
steps are being taken to improve the mechanism for targeting
foreign manufacturing firms, to develop contacts with foreign
industrial organisations with a view to facilitating technology
transfer transactions, and to reinforce our industrial promotion
offices located overseas.
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