Administrative

Region

shall provide an appropriate

economic and legal environment for the maintenance of the

status of Hong Kong as an international financial centre.

It stipulates further in Article 110 that the Government

of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall, on

its

formulate monetary and financial policies and

system to safeguard the free operation of financial

business and markets.

The Basic Law stipulates in Article 111 and Article

112 that the Hong Kong dollar shall continue to circulate

and remain freely convertible; and that the existing

SO

Hong Kong dollar issuing banks can continue to do

after 1997; and that no foreign exchange control policies

shall be applied in the Hong Kong Special Administrative

Region; and markets of foreign exchange, gold,

securities, futures and the like shall continue; and the

Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

shall safeguard the free flow of capital within, into and

out of the Region. I can assure you that if any of

present here want to withdraw your money after 1997,

matter how big the sum is, all you need to do is to

press the button of your computer at home. Of course, we

hope you will be kind enough not to do it all at the same

time.

you

no

For another

example, the Basic Law stipulates

in

Article 116 that the Hong Kong Special

Administrative

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