DRAGONAI
Dragonair is a British airline operating in Hong
Kong. Sir Y K Pao controls about 35% of the total
shareholding. Dragonair serves Thailand on a regular
basis and has ambitions to expand its scheduled and
non-scheduled services to other regional destinations,
including China. One of our objectives in the
forthcoming intergovernmental talks with China on air
services is to secure rights for Dragonair to operate
scheduled services to five points on the Chinese mainland
other than Peking and Shanghai (already served by Cathay
Pacific). If asked, the Prime Minister could emphasise
that we will continue to support Dragonair in its desire
If pressed to establish scheduled services to China.
about charter flights to Peking and Shanghai, she would
have to say that this is a decision for the Hong Kong Government ( (whose policy is generally that there should
be only one carrier per point).
NINGBO UNIVERSITY
Sir Y K Pao paid for the construction of a new
university at Ningbo, his place of birth.
There are now
2,000 students already studying there and further
expansion is underway. Sir Y K Pao has proposed that the
Ningbo University library (to be completed in 1990)
should be named after the Prime Minister.
If asked, the
Prime Minister could make it clear that we are ready to