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3. We seek to eliminate discrimination on sex, race, economic or
other grounds.
Economy
1. Free enterprise and the right to private ownership are essential ingredients of our free-market economy. They must be maintained along with those policies that have made Hong Kong an important international commercial and financial centre.
in the 2. We support the principle of ensuring competition in
provision of gooods and services in order to provide fair value to the consumers.
3. We seek to ensure that the Hong Kong economy remains as open
as possible to international investment and trade. 4. Government involvement in the economy should be kept to a in a role minimum. However, the government needs to play maintaining and promoting industrial standards, regulating essential monopolies, ensuring free and fair competition and creating an economic environment that allows business to operate under uniform regulations and share equal access to information and market opportunities.
5. Government should be responsible for the provision of the necessary services and physical and intellectual infrastructure and where practicable should encourage private sector participation in the provision of these, while ensuring accountability to the people.
6. We support the principle of a taxation system that is fair to all sectors of society, is based on low rates and is simple in structure.
7. Revenues raised through taxation in the Hong Kong SAR are for
the exclusive use of the SAR.
8. We believe in the importance of cooperation with China in the
economic development of the region as a whole.
We support the principle of public sector reform, including privatisation or contracting out of services
services to the private sector where appropriate, to achieve better use of resources.
Utilites
1. There is a need for a a thorough review of the system under
which our public utilities are operated and monitored.
2. The utilities must be run in the interest of society as a whole and in most, if not all cases, this can best be done by the private sector within parameters specifically tailored to each respective utility and which are strictly monitored to ensure compliance.
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