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You may have seen an English-language press report
of a recent statement by Li Peng calling for faster
completion of SHENZHEN Airport.
This was based on a
report datelined Shenzhen 28 February published in the
Hong Kong WEN WEI PO of 1 March.
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The Wen Wei Po report said that Li Peng had
issued the following "new instruction" concerning the
airport :
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"Construction work must be speeded up, and
by September test flights must be begun".
According to the same report, 530 million Yuan had
already been expended, representing over half the total planned investment. Runways, taxi-ways and hangars had
already been built, and work was now proceeding on the
internal fitting out of the latter.
Mafalken
(K.C. Walker)
Senior Research Officer
4.3.91.
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SCA
DPA
APA (G)
APA(S)
Mr. B. Wilson)
Head / CPU
Govt.Econ.
(Attn:
SES
HKD FCO
RAD (FES), FCO.
Chancery, Peking.
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