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extensively during the past thirty years, during which I have
lived in the United States
States for seven years. ..I can honestly
say that there is no place better than Hong Kong. Because
this is my home, therefore I am critical about our Government,
our system and our philosophy. When we are, facing a major problem of brain drain, we must speed up the programme of 7 training our younger generation to fill the gap. Although I
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which I believe we will
In the meantime, we must increase
intake of Our current education institutions, and substantially increase, the research and development budget. Cap
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training of our young people.
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there is по Lack of talent in our young people. Let us develop them So that they can fill the gap and become the leaders of tomorrOW.
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Hand in hand with education is technology. I keep repeating myself, both inside and outside of this Chamber, that we in the technological era. We must catch up with the rest of the world. I'm glad to see that after ten years of urging Government to do something on science and technology, an 27 advisory committee has
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upgrade. to grade the technology base of local industries. Hong Kong 30 now stands on the threshold of a new phase of economic
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increasingly dependent on our technical capability.
When I presented my Paper in the
in the recent Computer Conference '88, I placed much emphasis on information
information technology. The
development in this field has been astonishing. Siy, Hong Kong