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EMIGRATION
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Recognise that this is a subject of concern to many people in
Hong Kong.
We are following trends carefully.
Welcome decision of Hong Kong Government to set up task force
to study scale of problem.
No easy solutions: efforts should be concentrated on maintaining Hong Kong as a place where people wish to make their
lives.
Steadily improving living standards and quality of life make Hong Kong a very attractive place to live.
HMG to discourage other countries from attracting emigrants from
Hong Kong?
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Each country pursues its own immigration policy and Hong Kong people are free to come and go. But I think foreign governments
will understand that it is not in their interests or in the
interests of Hong Kong to have a destabilising movement of people
out of the territory.
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