formed by splitting the existing Financial Services constituency
which was already very small. Given the small number of
authorised insurers in Hong Kong (229) the insurance
constituency by itself would be tiny. In later rounds, the
Chinese side hinted that they might be prepared to be flexible
on the number of corporate voters within a corporate voting
system. But they were never specific. The British side's view
remains that corporate voting should in all cases be replaced by individual voting, for the reasons given above.
73. The British side put forward revised proposals on the nine
new functional constituencies in Round 9. These took account
of the Chinese proposal that functional constituencies should
all be based on organisations, and also built on six of the nine
specific Chinese proposals. In subsequent rounds, the British
side offered a number of further revisions to their list of
Functional Constituencies, in a major effort to bridge the gap. After these amendments, the British side's nine proposed
constituencies were:
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Textiles and Garment
Wholesale/Retail and Import/Export
Manufacturing
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Agriculture and Fisheries
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Transport
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- Utilities and Communications
Services
Sports, Culture and Entertainment
Lands/Works/Housing and Construction
The total franchise for the 30 Functional Constituencies on this
basis would be some 840,000.
74. In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong
Government, these revised proposals would produce fair and open
functional constituency elections based on constituencies of
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