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our relations with China were still
very limited. Our domestic exports to
the mainland were only worth $600
million (compared to $38 billion last
year). We had only recently opened air
links in December 1978, and direct
services from Guangzhou restarted
train
only on 4 April;
there was no universal franchise at any
level. Only about 32,000 people had the
right to vote in Urban Council
elections. The only District Boards
(those in the New Territories) were
wholly appointed;
only that
year,
junior secondary
education was for the firct timo main
free and
compulsory for children below
the age of 15;
the first section of the MTR (from Shek
Kip Mei to Kwun Tong) had just opened
on 30 September;
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