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WOULD DECIDE A SERIES OF REGULATIONS AND WORKING PLANS FOR PEKING TO STEER ITS FUTURE WORK ON HK AND MACAU BEFORE THE TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY IN 1997 AND 1999 RESPECTIVELY. THE MEETING WOULD ALSO REVIEW THE DEVELOPMENT OF SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS IN THE PAST YEAR AND LOOK FORWARD TO MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN HK. IT WAS BELIEVED THAT HK'S 1991 ELECTIONS AND THE REPLACEMENT AIRPORT PROJECT WOULD BE DISCUSSED. THE MEETING WOULD END ON SEPTEMBER 7.
8. SOME PAPERS (1.9), QUOTING AN ARTICLE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE, REPORTED THAT THE HK AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE HAD PUT TOGETHER A PACKAGE OF POLICIES FOR HK WHICH WOULD BE DISCUSSED IN PEKING. THE POLICIES CONSISTED OF THREE PARTS - POLITICAL PLANS, ECONOMIC PLANS AND LEGAL PLANS. THE POLITICAL PLANS WERE COMPILED BY KE ZAISHUO AND THE ECONOMIC PLANS WERE PUT TOGETHER BY ZHENG XIANCHENG, WHILE THE LEGAL PLANS WERE THE WORK OF FORMER MAINLAND BL DRAFTER SHAO TIENREN. IN THE POLITICAL PLANS, THE ARTICLE SAID THAT THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES STILL REGARDED HK AS A BASE FOR SUBVERSION'. BUT THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES WOULD NOT ATTACH THIS NAME TO HK IF THERE WERE NO FURTHER ANTI-CHINA PROTEST. THE CHINESE WOULD PUT IN ALL EFFORTS IN TAKE PART IN THE 1991 ELECTIONS AND WOULD PROVIDE FINANCIAL
BACKING TO CANDIDATES.
FUTURE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
9. THE ACTING GOVERNOR, CALLED ON THE WHOLE COMMUNITY TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS IF THE DEVELOPMENT OF HK'S DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS WAS TO BE SUCCESSFUL, THE MEDIA (2.9) REPORTED. SPEAKING AT A SEMINAR, SIR DAVID SAID THE 1990'S WOULD BE A MOST CRUCIAL AND CHALLENGING PERIOD FOR HK. ALSO SPEAKING AT THE SEMINAR, FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE BLCC LEUNG CHUN-YING URGED HK PEOPLE TO REMOVE MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HK AND THE MAINLAND IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT CHINA WOULD NOT CHANGE ITS POLICIES ON THE TERRITORY. LEGCO MEMBER ANDREW WONG SAID THAT HE WAS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT HK'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE THERE WERE TOO MANY RESTRICTIONS IN THE BL. HE DESCRIBED AS UNFAIR DECISIONS CONCERNING FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES FOR LEGCO ELECTIONS. HE GAVE A WARNING THAT IT WOULD BE DANGEROUS IF MEMBERS RETURNED FROM FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES HELD THE MAJORITY OF THE SEATS IN LEGCO,
ZHOU NAN
10. ZHOU NAN SAID THAT HK WOULD CERTAINLY OVERCOME ALL DIFFICULTIES AND CONTINUE TO THRIVE DESPITE ALL DIFFICULTIES, THE MEDIA (31.8) REPORTED. HE HOPED THAT THE MAINLAND AND HK WOULD
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