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HONG KONG PREPARATORY WORKING COMMITTEE
SUMMARY
COMMITTEE SET UP ON LINES IN EARLIER PRESS REPORTS. OTHER MINOR MEDIA ITEMS.
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THE PEOPLE'S DAILY OF 3 JULY REPORTED THAT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECISION OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS (NPC) IN MARCH, THE NPC STANDING COMMITTEE HAD DECIDED ON 2 JULY TO SET UP A PREPARATORY WORKING COMMITTEE FOR THE NPC PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION. ITS TASK IS TO UNDERTAKE ALL KINDS OF PREPARATORY WORK, BEFORE THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE IS SET UP (IN 1996, ACCORDING TO THE BASIC LAW), FOR ''CHINA'S RESUMPTION OF THE EXERCISE OF ITS SOVEREIGNTY'' IN 1997 AND FOR A SMOOTH TRANSITION.
3. THE WORKING COMMITTEE IS TO BE COMPOSED OF '' MAINLAND (NEIDI) AND HONG KONG PERSONALITIES AND EXPERTS FROM ALL SECTORS'', WITH HONG KONG MEMBERS NOT FEWER THAN 50 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL. THE NAME-LIST GIVEN IS AS IN LAI'S (CAB, HONG KONG) TELELETTER OF 3 JULY TO RICKETTS, HKD (AND, AS LAI NOTED, IDENTICAL TO PREVIOUS PRESS REPORTS), WITH QIAN QICHEN AS DIRECTOR, LU PING AS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AND LU PING, ZHOU NAN AND JIANG ENZHU AMONG THE DEPUTY DIRECTORS.
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CHEN YUAN IS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE, DESPITE EARLIER REPORTS THAT HE WOULD BE LEAVING HIS POST AS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA. (THE SAME NPC STANDING COMMITTEE SESSION CONFIRMED THE REMOVAL OF LI GUIXIAN AS PRESIDENT AND HIS REPLACEMENT BY VICE-PREMIER ZHU RONGJI: THIS WAS SAID TO BE ON LI PENG'S PROPOSAL.)
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ONE MINOR SURPRISE IS THAT CHEN ZUO'ER, WHO COVERS ECONOMIC
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