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FROM: EDMOND LAU, POLITICAL ADVISER'S OFFICE FOR: FCO
COPIED TO: PEKING
UKREP JLG HONG KONG
8TH GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS
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1 THE 1ST SESSION OF THE 8TH GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S
CONGRESS WAS HELD FROM 29 JANUARY TO 8 FEBRUARY. GOVERNOR ZHU SENLIN'S WORK REPORT WAS ENDORSED. IT FORESEES AN ANNUAL GROWTH RATE OF AROUND 13 PERCENT UP TO 2010. 36 HONG KONG DEPUTIES OF THE GUANGDONG PEOPLE'S CONGRESS WERE NOMINATED BY NCNA HONG KONG
AND 28 HONG KONG DEPUTIES WERE ELECTED UNOPPOSED, AS PART OF THE GUANGDONG DELEGATION, TO THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS. ZHU SENLIN WAS RE-ELECTED GOVERNOR. HE SPOKE AGAINST THE GOVERNOR'S
POLITICAL REFORM PACKAGE AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE CONGRESS MEETING.
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2. THE 1ST SESSION OF THE 8TH GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S
CONGRESS WAS HELD FROM 29 JANUARY TO 8 FEBRUARY. SOME 770
DEPUTIES WERE ELECTED BY PRECEDING MUNICIPAL CONGRESSES WITHIN GUANGDONG AND MILITARY UNITS IN THE PROVINCE, WHILST 36 WERE NOMINATED BY NCNA HK TO REPRESENT HONG KONG, TOGETHER WITH A SMALLER GROUP FROM MACAU MAKING A TOTAL OF 809 DEPUTIES.
ACCORDING TO SOUTHERN DAILY (29 JAN) 25 PERCENT OF THESE ARE WORKERS, PEASANTS OR OTHER 'LABOURING PEOPLE', AND 188 ARE OFFICIALS. THE PROVINCIAL POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE WAS
HELD CONCURRENTLY WITH THE PEOPLE'S CONGRESS. THERE WERE 71
DELEGATES FROM HONG KONG WHO WERE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF
NOMINATIONS BY NCNA HK.
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AT THE CONGRESS'S OPENING SESSION, GOVERNOR ZHU SENLIN DELIVERED THE GOVERNMENT WORK REPORT (WHICH WAS ENDORSED ON 8 FEBRUARY), IN WHICH HE OUTLINED THE PROVINCE'S PLAN TO CATCH UP WITH THE FOUR 'LITTLE DRAGONS' (SOUTH KOREA, HONG KONG, TAIWAN
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