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special expertise and effort to assessing and implementing the right conditions that will encourage foreign firms to come to Hong Kong, and to stay.
might include tax guarantees extending beyond 1997.
These
International organisations and agencies: there should be an effort to promote Hong Kong as a regional base. Special land grants could be considered.
International community, in Hong Kong: as the presence of a large number of foreigners brings particular benefits for Hong Kong's confidence, localisation dogma should not be allowed to influence policy, and the
Administration should ensure a sensible policy towards overseas staff; there are similar implications in the Basic Law's stipulations about the involvement of foreigners after 1997; quality of life is also an important consideration including minimal bureaucracy, good medical care, recreational and pollution control aspects, English language
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proficiency, increased availability of international schools, and the even-handed attitude towards foreigners expected of an international city.
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professions should be opened up to greater foreign
involvement while protecting standards, and parochial
attitudes should be discouraged.
Inappropriate laws: ridding the statute book of
antiquated and inappropriate laws that have no place in
an international community
might be abused after 1997
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and especially those which
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is an essential element of
Hong Kong's international outlook.