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operations might come to the help of small and medium size
businesses that are well managed and enterprising.
I understand
that this working party - on which the Industry Department,
the Monetary Affairs Branch and the Hong Kong Productigjet prema
Council are represented is making good progress.
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17.
Fourthly, on the delivery of industrial development
and infrastructural support services, particularly to small
and medium sized industrial undertakings, the IDB has endorsed
the need for a further examination of how the marketing
of such services might be improved. Here the IDB consider
that while the quality of the services available is good,
more needed to be done to encourage wider use of these services
which help manufacturers to adopt the technologies of industrial
efficiency and product improvement and innoovation, and
encouraging them to invest in the management and technical
systems required to achieve. these ends.
18.
I hope that Members will feel assured, in the
light of what I have said, that our industrial policies
are evolving in a sound and pragmatic manner, that the Government
has an efficient mechanism for formulating and reviewing
industrial policies and that, in seeking to do more to help
our manufacturing industries, we are pursuing the right
objectives, based on advice of the IDB.
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