SAMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.
RUN AT EP 23 11002
26.03
14
لا
We Will need to relieve the strain of
cross-border
commercial traffic on our road system in ways that promote
our growing trade not impede it. And we shall have to give
careful consideration to a new railway link through the
western New Territories to the container port.
SERVING THE NEXT CENTURY
20.
But the
overriding
challenge in developing our
infrastructure is how to Beet the demands both of our
economic expansion and of China's modernisation.
This means
constructing the port, airport, road and rail facilities to
cope with continued economic
expansion well into the next
century. There are some projects which we can undertake and
complete by 1997 entirely from our own resources. In other
financing or
a require
longer
cases,
construction
will
time-frame.
21.
Our ability to proceed with major projects
1997 depends in the last resort on our success in
persuading the Chinese Government to agree to them.
straddling
Sometimes
discussions.
securing
Where
threatens the completion of
should still do
vital
everything
projects forward
agreement requires prolonged
the length of these discussions
a project, I believe that we
we prudently can to take these
far
as we are able.
The