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TALKING POINTS 2 19 June 1992
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TALKING POINTS issues on Fridays and records public views and reactions on current talking points collected from a small number of respondents in both urban and New Territories regions by City and New Territories Administration liaison staff over the week. As TALKING POINTS is not based upon a large representative cross-section of public opinion, indications in it should be treated with caution and should not be quoted authoritatively without first checking their reliability with the City and New Territories Administration.
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CO-OPERATIVE RESOURCES CENTRE MEMBERS' VISIT TO BEIJING
Most respondents noted that members of the Co-operative Resources Centre (CRC) had been received by senior Chinese leaders, including the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Mr Jiang Zemin during their visit to Beijing. Some respondents welcomed the visit and regarded it as opening another channel for communication between Hong Kong and China. They said that being experienced Legislative Councillors, members of the CRC might be able to help China to obtain a better understanding of Hong Kong's political system.
These respondents were in favour of similar future visits by the CRC and other political
groups.
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Many respondents
commented that one of the purposes of the visit was to dilute their current pro-UK/HK government image. They commented that CRC members must be eager to improve their relationship with the Chinese Government as they were concerned at their post 1997 political career. Some respondents said that the visit and the top level reception accorded to the delegation by the Chinese were moves to counteract the recent meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr John Major and Mr Martin Lee. These respondents believed that members of the CRC were also taking the opportunity to demonstrate their concern at the livelihood of the people of Hong Kong by raising with the Chinese leaders issues like law and order in Hong Kong and the housing problem of the sandwich class.
CN.T.A. 8 (Rev.)
AIRPORT FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
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concern over the ever Projects. Some of them failing to estimate the
Many respondents expressed increasing cost of the Airport Core criticized the Government for either costs of the Projects accurately or deliberately withholding. information from the public at the beginning. Some questioned whether it was indeed necessary for the projects to be completed by 1997. They pointed out that a tight time-table would put pressure on project cost.
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Some respondents said that it was understandable why the Chinese Government had delayed giving support for the proposed financial arrangement, especially if indeed the issue of callable equity for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation and the Airport Authority had not been raised with the Chinese before. Some respondents said that since the future SAR Government would
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