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QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO AS TO ALLOW WORK TO CARRY ON. WE HOPE THAT
THE HONG KONG AND MACAO BASIC LAW DRAFTING COMMITTEES AND
CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEES AS WELL AS ALL HONG KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS WILL, IN LINE WITH THEIR RESPONSIBLE SPIRIT TOWARDS HONG KONG AND MACAO AND TOWARDS THE STATE OF CHINA, WORK HARD TO COMPLETE THE HISTORIC TASK OF DRAFTING THE BASIC LAWS.
THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY REBELLION IN PEKING DEVELOPED
GRADUALLY FROM THE STUDENT MOVEMENT AND FROM DISTURBANCES. DURING THIS PROCESS, HONG KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS USED DIVERSE METHODS TO EXPRESS ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT VIEWS. SINCE THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND, OR DID NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND, THE FULL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CURRENT SITUATION, IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT SOME MISTAKES AROSE. HERE I MUST ALSO POINT OUT THAT SOME HONG
KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS CAME HERE AND DID THINGS IMPERMISSIBLE UNDER CHINESE LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION AND DID, IN FACT, PLAY SOME PART IN WHIPPING UP THE DISTURBANCES.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS IN THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OR AFTER HONG KONG AND MACAO HAVE RETURNED TO THE FATHERLAND, THE MAINLAND AND HONG KONG AND MACAO HAVE TWO KINDS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. THE CENTRAL PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT DEFINITELY
CANNOT CHANGE HONG KONG'S AND MACAO'S CAPITALIST SYSTEMS AND CANNOT IMPLEMENT SOCIALIST POLICIES THERE. HONG KONG AND MACAO
ALSO SHOULD NOT INTERFERE OR SEEK TO ALTER THE MAINLAND'S
SOCIALIST SYSTEM. EVEN LESS CAN IT BE ALLOWED THAT PEOPLE MAKE
USE OF HONG KONG AND MACAO TO SUBVERT THE BASIS OF THE CENTRAL PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT. MAINLANDERS WHO GO TO HONG KONG AND MACAO MUST RESPECT THOSE TERRITORIES' LAWS. HONG KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS WHO COME TO THE MAINLAND MUST ALSO RESPECT CHINA'S LAWS AND CONSTITUTIONS. TO COME INLAND AND ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES OPPOSING THE LEADERSHIP OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, OPPOSING SOCIALISM AND DAMAGING ''INLAND'S'' STABILITY AND IS NOT ONLY INTOLERABLE UNDER CHINESE LAW, RUNNING COUNTER TO THE HOPES AND INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE, BUT MUST ALSO RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE HONG KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS.
UNITY
FOR SOME TIME NOW, MOST HONG KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS AND PATRIOTIC PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CLOSELY CONCERNED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOUR MODERNISATIONS AND WITH MAKING A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE STRENGTH AND PROSPERITY OF THE FATHERLAND. WE WILL NOT FORGET THIS. WE SINCERELY HOPE ALL HONG KONG AND MACAO COMPATRIOTS, NO MATTER WHAT MISAPPREHENSIONS THEY MAY HAVE HAD,
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