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such as work study, preventive maintenance, quality control, pro- duction planning and control, financial management and personnel management. In 1971, the training courses were expanded to include vertical training in process engineering for sectors of industry such as electronics, wig manufacture, plastics and metal plating.
The National Computer Centre of the United Kingdom has given recognition to the centre's training programmes for System Analysts, and with this important development it has been able to develop an integrated electronic data processing training programme embracing all levels of personnel, from staff requiring training in computer fundamentals to technologists and top management.
For some years Hong Kong has been a member of the Asian Productivity Organisation. The present Deputy Chairman of the Productivity Council has been appointed by the Governor as Hong Kong's Director on the organisation's Governing Body and the Executive Director of the Productivity Centre as Alternate Director. As a member of the organisation, Hong Kong was host to the 11th Workshop Meeting of Directors of National Productivity Centres of the APO in February 1971 and was represented at the 13th Governing Body Meeting in Teheran in May.
Trade and Industrial Organisations
The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, founded more than a century ago and the oldest trade association in the Colony, now has a membership of nearly 2,000 representing all branches of commerce and industry. The chamber is represented on a number of government boards and committees and is a member of the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce.
Other chambers and trade associations include the Indian Cham- ber of Commerce, the American Chamber of Commerce, the Hong Kong Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Hong Kong Exporters' Association.
The Federation of Hong Kong Industries, established by ordinance in 1960, devotes much of its efforts to helping to create an industrial infrastructure to assist Hong Kong industry in its growth. Its mem- bership represents all industries, many nationalities and all sizes of enterprise. Among the services which it offers to Hong Kong on a community basis are its Standards Centre and its Testing Labora- tories for textile, plastic and electrical products. To encourage the development of better industrial design in Hong Kong, the Industrial