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act as a dynamo for further wealth creation, not just in Hong
Kong but in Guandong, and more widely in Southern China.
will confirm our place at the crossroads of the Asian
economy.
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To retain our economic strength, we also have to attend
to more parochial but important concerns. We have, for
example, to continue to battle against inflation.
When the
public express anxiety about the rate of inflation, they are
wholly right to do so.
Inflation is a cunning enemy,
enemy we ignore at our peril.
Thirdly, it is essential that we remain a low tax
economy in which public spending is kept under prudent
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control. But it is right that we should be free to use some
unetty of com Sellow citizens of the wealth we generate to help those who fall by the
wayside and to make our society ever more civilised.
how much this community cares about the education of our
children, about the care of the elderly, about housing, about
the disabled, and about the environment in which we live.
My government will attach to these issues the priority they
deserve. I look forward to saying more about them in my
speech to the Legislative Council in October.
Fourth, I know how much concern has been expressed in
the community about law and order. Hong Kong, it is true,
is a safer city than most. Yet that is little comfort to
the businesses that have been robbed or, worse still, to
those families who have been the victims of violent crime.
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