布政司署
香港下亜電生道
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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
14 February 1990
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Mr Chen Guoping,
New China News Agency 387 Queen's Road East Hong Kong
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As you know, in January, 155 (95%) of the 163 Vietnamese who arrived in Hong Kong did so having earlier crossed the Sino-Vietnamese land border. You may be interested to know that 140 of the arrivals came from the southern part of Vietnam of which 80 came from Ho Chi Minh City. 90 (55%) of arrivals were ethnic Chinese.
The most usual route for those arriving is to cross the Sino-Vietnamese land border at Dong Xing (%) and travel by land to Bei Hai (.) in Guangxi or Taiping and Dou Men ( -) in Guangdong and purchased a boat there for the onward journey to Hong Kong. The average length of the journey is about one month.
I should be grateful if this could be urgently passed to the relevant Chinese authorities. In particular I should be grateful if the authorities in the ports mentioned could be instructed not to permit the sale of boats to Vietnamese.
b.c.c.
Yourd Surrenly
Keel Kit
(R A J Bunten)
Assistant Political Adviser (G)
C O Pigott, Esq., Peking
C Haswell, HKD, FCO
S for S (Attn: RC)