INDUSTRY AND TRADE
areas, including quality control, human resources development, precision sheet-metal stamping, and mould and die technology.
To meet the increasing demand from institutions and companies for HKPC services in the Pearl River Delta area of China, the HKPC has established a Guangzhou Liaison Office in addition to its Shenzhen Liaison Desk. The office was officially opened in November. Its main function is to strengthen the capabilities of the HKPC by using specialist resources in China, which are not available in Hong Kong, and sub-contracting work to them to reduce costs. It also acts as a marketing agent for HKPC services and co-ordinates HKPC projects in the region.
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The HKPC is the government's agent for the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO). During the year, under the sponsorship of the APO, the HKPC hosted two APO programmes - a seminar on total quality management and a symposium on the manage- ment of innovations and technology development strategies.
The HKPC Building in Kowloon Tong houses all the council's operations under a single roof. It contains a display area, an auditorium, a technical reference library, electronic data processing facilities, and a computer-aided design service centre. There are also laboratories for surface mount technology, radio frequency and digital communications, photo-chemical machining, metal finishing and industrial chemistry, environmental management, sheet-metal processing, precision machining and die-casting. The building also houses a mould and die technology centre and a 3D-stereolithography technology
centre.
Hong Kong Industrial Estates Corporation
The Hong Kong Industrial Estates Corporation is responsible for developing and managing industrial estates in Hong Kong. It offers developed land, at cost, on its industrial estates to companies with new or improved processes and products which cannot operate in multi-storey factory buildings. The corporation has two industrial estates in the New Territories at Tai Po and Yuen Long and a third is being constructed at Tseung Kwan O. The industrial estates are fully serviced with roads, drains, sewers, electricity and water. Companies on the estates design and construct their own factory premises to meet their specific requirements. They are required to adopt appropriate environmental protection measures to meet current standards.
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Over 100 factories were operating in the Tai Po and Yuen Long estates and more were being built at the end of the year. On the Tai Po estate, which has 73 hectares of industrial land, only one vacant site of about 0.9 hectare, reserved for a high-technology industry, remained. The Yuen Long estate has 67 hectares of land in total, of which 16.5 hectares were still available for leasing. The land premia stood at $1,900 per square metre for Tai Po and $1,600 for Yuen Long.
Construction of the third industrial estate at Tseung Kwan O began in August 1991. The first phase, with 20 hectares of serviced sites, will be available by early 1994. A total of 68 hectares of industrial land will be provided by 1996. The new industrial estate is only three kilometres from the centre of Tseung Kwan O new town. Waterfront sites and berthing facilities will be available for ocean-going ships.
The corporation's estates are held under leases from the government which extend to the year 2047. The corporation also grants sites to 2047, enabling investors to plan up to the middle of the next century with certainty.
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