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(2)
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Macau.
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In HK, the Government has commissioned a consultancy study on railway development up to 2011, and
of
the recommendations arising from the study is a railway line for Northwest New Territories. Recently, the publication of a consultative document concerning railway developments straddling 1997 has been postponed, as prior consultation with the Chinese side is required.
In highway development, several expressways are being constructed in Guangdong. It is expected that the province will have 2000 km of road by the end of this century, including the 129 km long Guangzhou-Shenzhen Highway. In another development, Zhuhai has recently announced its intention to build the Zhuhai-Tuen Mun Bridge.
Bridge. Although the project was said to be at its final
final research and approval stage, both
both the Zhuhai authorities and the HK Government expressed that there had never been any contact between them in relation to the project. In HK, the Financial Secretary announced in this year's budget that $4 billion would be allocated for the construction of the Route 3 - Country Park Section.
Specific Analysis
At present, individual districts within the Pearl River Delta are competing against each other in embarking on infrastructural projects such as deep-water ports
ports and airports. In order to further open themselves to the outside world, these Delta districts
these Delta districts are making positive efforts to strengthen their link with HK.
The Delta districts will not readily give up any chance of infrastructural development which has a long-term impact on their economic benefits and development.
It is not an easy task to coordinate all the infrastructural projects within the Delta region because different political systems are being practised in all levels of provincial and municipal governments on the hand and the HK Government on the other.
Coordination is, in itself, a political problem. HK is presently a British colony and will soon become a Special Administrative Region (SAR). The Basic Law stipulates that apart from national defence and foreign affairs, the SAR Government shall be fully responsible for its affairs in which the Central Government shall not interfere. At present, some major infrastructural projects intended to be carried out in other provinces and cities
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