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Council s services in a new building in Kowloon Tong in 1990, and to expand substantially its services for the metal working and electronics industries. The Council will also be active in promoting new production management techniques, and is currently assessing what more needs to be done for the textiles industry.
31.
All this will, I hope, serve to demonstrate
that a great deal is now being done to help our industry meet the growing challenge of competition in overseas
markets.
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(a)
Co-ordination of science and Technology
As our industry, economy and society become
more complex and sophisticated, we need to pay more attention to the part that modern science and technology
can play in furthering development. ΤΟ ensure that we get the best advice in this area, the Government have
decided to appoint a Committee on Science and
Technology. Its task will be to seek out and develop new scientific ideas of relevance to Hong Kong and to advise
le government departments on how they might best be
applied. Where necessary, special groups will be set up under the main committee to look into particular issues which require the application of scientific or
technological knowledge.
/(e)
Management
lo.