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give us the confidence to go on building

the foundations for Hong Kong's future

prosperity through ambitious plans to

improve our

infrastructure.

physical

and

social

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Let me give you a few examples:

we are building a new airport and

expanding our port facilities so

that Hong Kong can go on playing

its role as a major international

trading and financial centre;

in our public housing programme,

we are

planning

to complete by

the end of the decade another

400,000 new homes SO that at

least half of the people of Hong

Kong can continue to benefit low

cost housing;

in education, we have embarked on

an ambitious programme to expand

higher education.

In 1985, we

had places in tertiary education

institutions

for about 58 of the

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