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BOTH HK ECONOMIC JOURNAL AND TA KUNG PAO TODAY (20 NOVEMBER) REPORTED ON REMARKS MADE BY LU PING ON THE FUTURE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE TO A VISITING DELEGATION OF THE SENIOR NON-EXPATRIATE CIVIL SERVANTS ASSOCIATION FROM HONG KONG.
2. ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, LU REITERATED THAT HONG KONG WOULD BE RUN ENTIRELY BY HONG KONG PEOPLE. CHINA HAD NO INTENTION OF PUTTING THEIR PEOPLE INTO THE SARG. AS A STABLE CIVIL SERVICE WOULD BE CONDUCIVE TO A SMOOTH TRANSITION, THEY WOULD DO THEIR BEST TO ALLAY CURRENT CONCERNS AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS.
3. LU SAID THAT HE SAW THE STABILISING EFFECT THAT A RESERVE FUND FOR PENSION PAYMENT WOULD HAVE TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD THEREFORE PROPOSE TO DISCUSS IN DETAIL AT THE NEXT JLG THE FEASIBILITY OF SUCH A PROPOSAL AND WOULD BACK THE PROPOSAL. BUT HE ALSO POINTED TO THE BASIC LAW WHICH CONTAINED CLEAR PROVISIONS FOR THE SARG TO HONOUR THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS TO CIVIL SERVANTS.
ON THE LOCALISATION POLICY, LU SAID THE CHINESE SIDE BELIEVED THAT THE POLICY SHOULD ALSO COVER THE JUNIOR RANKS SO THAT ENOUGH TALENTS WOULD BE GROOMED FOR TAKING UP IMPORTANT POSTS LATER. FOR THOSE WHO HAD OBTAINED FOREIGN RIGHT OF ABODE, THEY COULD STILL BE APPOINTED TO THE POSTS RESTRICTED TO CHINESE CITIZENS AS PROVIDED IN THE BASIC LAW IF THEY RENOUNCE THEIR FOREIGN NATIONALITY. LU ASSURED THAT THOSE WHO HAD ACQUIRED BRITISH CITIZENSHIP UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY SCHEME WOULD NOT BE SINGLED OUT: WHAT CHINA WAS OPPOSED TO WAS BRITAIN'S ADOPTION OF SUCH POLICY, ON THE INDIVIDUALS WHO BENEFITED UNDER THE SCHEME.
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