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can never be any meaningful guarantee for continued success,
and certainly there are dark clouds looming ahead.
Indeed, in
order to achieve our objectives, it will most certainly require patience and conscious cooperation between different sectors of
It is the community, acting upon a set of rational policies. with this in mind that I make the following observations for
further consideration.
First, I propose that the Government makes it a point to conduct regular reviews of all the different industries that
collectively make up our manufacturing sector.
Such reviews
should be conducted in periods of three to five years.
They
should be detailed, objective and should cover areas such as performance to-date, future prospects for the next period as
well as identification of problem areas that need to be
addressed. Armed with results from such reviews, I believe the
Government would be in a better position to develop and implement effective policies designed to encourage and to
facilitate further developments of each industry.
Secondly, as Hong Kong progresses economically,
educationally and socially, the quality of our future work force is likely to be better suited for higher technology
industries. Will we have enough job opportunities in those
The answers to areas? If not, what can and what must we do?
these questions will be very significant to the health of our
In a bid to find some answers to economy in the years ahead. the above questions and having briefly analysed the state of