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easier to take the low road, to forget about PADS,
pollution and policy planning. Our lives would much more
simple and you and I, sir, might have had fewer grey hairs
and the occasional weekend to call our own. But all of us
in the Government are committed to strive to do what is
best for the people of Hong Kong regardless of the
stresses and strains that may impost on us personally and
indeed on the administration as a whole. We believe it
would be totally irresponsible of us to rest on our
laurels and take the easy road to 1997 by doing the
minimum needed to keep Hong Kong ticking over. We are
firm believe in the Chinese saying 'Unless we continue to
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make progress we lag behind' BAT JUN JAK TUI. So we have
lifted our horizon well beyond 1997 and are making plans
for the next century. In addition to building a new
airport, we are now firmly on track in expanding our
tertiary education sector on a massive scale by more than
doubling the provision of first degree places by 1995
among other things. Our third University is near
completion. Our efforts to improve our
physical
environment by implementing the wide-ranging and detailed
proposals in the White Paper on Pollution will continue to
bear fruits in the coming decade, And we published in
September this year a draft White Paper on Social Welfare
into the 1990s and beyond.
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