UNCLASSIFIED
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MDLIAN 2309
MR LI OBSERVED THERE WAS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN HK'S AIRPORT AND THERE'S AS BOTH NEEDED NEW ONES. THE SHENZHEN MAYOR LI YOUWEI WAS NOTED AS SAYING PHASE 2 OF THE HUANGTIAN AIRPORT WAS BEING PLANNED, WHICH COULD HELP TO SPREAD OUT AIR TRAFFIC FOR KAI TAK.
15. THE CHINESE JLG TEAM LEADER GUO FENGMIN REITERATED, (5.2) ON THE EVE OF A LEGISLATORS MEETING TO CONSIDER A DOLLARS 1.4 BN REQUEST FOR THE NORTH EXPRESSWAY, THAT THE CHINESE STAND REMAINED CONSISTENT I.E. THEY OBJECTED TO ANY UNILATERAL ACTION BY THE HKG BEFORE AN OVERALL AGREEMENT WAS REACHED ON THE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS. AN AC MEMBER AND NCNA OFFICIAL, CHEN KE QIANG SAID THE MOU CLEARLY STATED ALL AIRPORT RELATED IMPORTANT MATTERS WHICH STRADDLED 1997 HAD TO BE SCRUTINISED BY THE CHINESE. THE CHINESE SIDE WOULD NOT RECOGNISE CONTRACTS UNITERALLY AWARDED BY THE BRITISH HKG.
GOVERNOR
16. THE MEDIA REPORTED (3.2) EXTENSIVELY THE GOVERNOR WOULD UNDERGO HOSPITAL TREATMENT OF A CORONARY DISORDER. REPORTS NOTED THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE FOREIGN SECRETARY SENT THEIR REGARDS TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE NCNA HK DIRECTOR ZHOU NAN HAD SENT A GET WELL MESSAGE VIA THE POLITICAL ADVISER.
LOCAL DELEGATES TO THE NPC
IT
17. REPORTS NOTED (2.2) ALL THE 28 NOMINEES FOR HK TO THE NPC AS PART OF THE GUANGDONG DELEGATION HAD BEEN ELECTED. THERE HAD BEEN AN INCREASE OF 10 DELEGATES FROM 18. REPORTS NOTED A ''SINGLE CANDIDATE'' ELECTION SYSTEM HAD BEEN ADOPTED (I.E. THERE WERE THE SAME NUMBER OF CANDIDATES AS VACANCIES FOR THE HK DELEGATES). WAS NOTED EACH CANDIDATE RECEIVED ON AVERAGE OVER 770 VOTES. TRADE UNIONIST CHENG YIU-TONG, LAWYER GALLANT HO YIU-TAI AND JOURNALIST TSANG TAK-SING WON 780 OUT OF 782 VALID VOTES, WHICH WAS THE HIGHEST SCORE AMONG DELEGATES. AMONG THE 28 DELEGATES, THE MAJORITY WERE PRO-CHINA PERSONALITIES AND THE AVERAGE AGE WAS YOUNGER THAN LAST TERM. MOST OF THEM WERE BUSINESSMEN OR PROFESSIONALS AND 15 OF THEM WERE INCUMBANTS. THE DELEGATES' TERM OF OFFICE WOULD STRADDLE 1997 AND WOULD PLAY A ROLE IN THE PREPARATION WORK OF THE SAR AND THE ELECTION OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE. IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY ON THE ELECTION PROCESS, DELEGATE TSANG TAK-SING CONSIDERED THERE WAS NO PROBLEM WITH THE PROCEDURES AND OBSERVED AS HK WAS STILL UNDER BRITISH RULE, THE ELECTIONS COULD NOT HELD IN HK.