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to these changes by providing more courses in financial and other business services, including accounting, computer application, insurance, law, trading and
banking.
Language training in both English and Putonghua should also be improved.
19.
To cater for the ever increasing flows of goods and people to and from China, infrastructural planning in Hong Kong will have to take the China factor into account. There may be grounds for providing an extra margin of infrastructural facilities, as the problems associated with an unanticipated surge in demand would almost certainly be greater if the facilities in question are already operating at or near capacity. In view of resource constraints, priorities for the development of infrastructural projects, whether to meet the needs of the local economy or to improve links with China, should continue to be assessed in terms of their costs and benefits to the community as a whole.
Conclusion
20.
Given the provisions in the Joint Declaration that Hong Kong can retain its own economic system in the present form up to 1997 and beyond, there appears to be no need for any fundamental change in the Government's overall policy of minimum intervention in the economy. The Government should continue to ensure that a favourable business environment exists, in terms of a sound legal and institutional framework, efficient infrastructure and a capable and well-motivated workforce, in which private enterprise is free to pursue its own economic goals and make its own business decisions. This basic approach will remain relevant in the face of the wide-ranging business opportunities that are likely to emerge from the
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