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Hong Kong Island. We will also have to provide all the

facilities

needed for servicing a new airport. This means

new a

building

industrial and

valley.

town for at least 150,000 people, plus

facilities, in the Tung Chung

commercial

82.

Building the new airport, and the road and rail

links associated with it, will be the largest project ever

undertaken in Hong Kong. It will require an immense amount

of effort from both the public and the private sector. ΤΟ

have the new airport in

operation in early 1997 means

setting to work સક soon as possible.

construction and ultimately

put in the hands

year,

The planning,

the management of it will be

of a new Airport Authority. Early next

appointing members of a Provisional

I will be

Authority which will do the

Authority itself is set up.

preliminary work before the

83.

Once the first

runway of the new airport is open

we can close Kai Tak, which is likely to be operating at

full capacity by 1996.

airport to meet Hong Kong's requirements in the 21st

century, closing Kai Tak will bring its own benefits.

Besides the need for a modern

The

whole of the area now used by the airport will be available

for

redevelopment.

We will

be

able to lift height

/restrictions

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