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studying these proposals and will be consulting the public around the middle of 1991. Another working party set up at the same time to study the use and practice of traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong continued its deliberations throughout the year. It will make an interim report before>
the summer of 1991.
41.
A Preparatory Committee was appointed to plan and prepare for the formation of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, which will be responsible for organising and supervising post-graduate and continuing medical education and the accreditation of specialist status. The aim is that the Academy should come into being in 1991.
42. The most significant event in the welfare field during 1990 was probably the publication, for the purpose of public consultation, of a draft White Paper on social welfare policies for the 1990's and beyond. Following a 3 month consultation period, the White Paper was published in
Similarly, the policies and services for the
March 1991.
rehabilitation of disabled persons will be reviewed comprehensively in 1991 with the intention of publishing a Green Paper in the second half of the year. The Green Paper will set out proposals to ensure that the needs of disabled persons will continue to be met in the next decade and beyond.
43. In the field of education, the Hong Kong Government
have adopted a two-pronged strategy for the 1990s; to
the number of places for tertiann increase education and to improve the quality of education at primary and secondary schools.
44.
Detailed measures to increase the provision of first. year degree places from 7,000 in 1989-90 to 15,000 by 1994-95 (an increase from 8 per cent to 18 per cent of the 17-20 age group) were submitted by local tertiary institutions in early 1990 and accepted for implementation.
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