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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
230111
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PA CR 4/3571/88
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I am sorry that we have been so long in commenting (203) on Alan Donald's letter of 1 December in the series of
correspondence about ways to encourage the Chinese to improve confidence in Hong Kong.
I agree with Alan that we should make specific proposals for visits to Hong Kong by senior Chinese. We may be able also to catch some people who are transitting here but if we leave things too much to chance we are not likely to make much progress. I also agree that we should concentrate on those with an economic remit as well as people with responsibilities in other areas in which Hong Kong is likely to have something to attract them. The legal system is an obvious example, as Alan points out; education is another. We need to bear in mind that, particularly given the constraints of the current rectifica- tion campaign, it is not going to be at all easy to entice visitors here. I hope therefore that we could spread our net fairly widely and include less senior people, for instance from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and if possible the various Think Tanks of Zhao Ziyang and others.
For what it is worth, I enclose a list of people whom we see as possible candidates. But it is of course for Peking to give conclusive advice.
On the frequency of visits, we could easily handle two ministerial level visits a year and more on a relatively junior level. I fear that the problem will be to get people to come at all rather than to have too many.
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