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Visit to Fujian 3
7 March, 1987
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I led a delegation to Fujian last week at the
invitation of the NCNA to conduct a review of arrangements for Chinese group tour visits to Hong Kong and discuss some Chinese
proposals. With me were Lee Lap-sum (Security branch), K. K. Lee and Y. K. Lam (Immigration Department) and Lily
King. Ji Shaoxiang led the Chinese side, which included
Shu Jianping and two representatives each of the China Travel
Service and Guangdong Tours. Using the rather thin pretext of
the group tours meeting, Ji had arranged an elaborate four day
tour of the province. (As you know he had reduced it from a six day jolly at our request.) In the event, I think this was
a much more useful exercise than I had expected. We met the
Vice Governor of Fujian and other provincial officials and saw
a good deal of the province.
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= Xiamen
Amoy. We started here, arriving mid-morning, were met
by local officials and taken straight to the stately memorial
of Chen Jiagun, the Singapore rubber magnate who financed the
building of Amoy University and several schools. Chen's
largesse and other overseas Chinese contributions were lauded
to the skies by our guides. We then drove round a new
industrial estate and saw many new factories. Most of them had
Hong Kong connexions, but Wang and other US companies are there
too.
It was an impressive development but there was no obvious sign of work in progress no trucks being loaded or unloaded,
no people bustling around.
Shades of Shenzhen but more so.
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