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Hong Kong's residents after 1997, pension
arrangements for its civil service and so on.
I said in a
Confidence in the future should certainly not
be mistaken for complacency.
speech in Hong Kong in May that no society on
earth can look forward with absolute
confidence to the years ahead and say "Nothing
can go wrong". Hong Kong has its special
problems of course.
Emigration is one, as I
said in the House. Here again Monckton
displayed his slender grasp of the detail when
he spoke of an outflow of 100,000 a year. The
figure in 1987 was 27,000, more than 1986 but
less than the annual figure in the early
seventies.