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(viii) annual increase of 10.5% in internal retail
productions;
(ix) annual increase of 10% in external trades to
reach US$11 billion in 1995;
(x)
general increase in all categories of
education facilities;
(xi)
control population increase to 15.5% per year;
(xii)
provision of 141,200 hospital beds by 1995.
[The PELB has approached the Guangdong
Provincial
Planning Commission for further details of the 8th Five
Year Plan.]
(c) All the ports in the Pearl River Delta are looking
forward to, and planning for, continuous growth in
throughput, which is projected to be as high as 30%
per annum in some ports. However owing to
geographical
restraints,
the ports though
increasingly containerized, can only take in ships
of very limited capacity. The message was clearly
that they will continue to have to rely on Hong Kong
for transhipment services, operating on a mid-stream
intention, nor have the
basis.
They have no
capability, to compete with the Hong Kong port.
The