CALENDAR OF EVENTS IN 1995
March
1
5
8
12-19
28
April
13
15-16
22-29
23
May
5
11
19
The Financial Secretary, Sir Hamish Macleod, presents his fourth and last Budget to the Legislative Council. He envisages a small deficit of $2.6 billion in 1995-96 and forecasts that GDP will rise by 5.5 per cent, total exports by 13 per cent and exports of services by nine per cent. Salaries tax is reduced to a maximum 15 per cent.
A total of 561 943 or 25.8 per cent of voters cast their votes in the Municipal Council elections; both figures higher than at the 1991 elections.
The Legislative Council passes a government motion for the establish- ment of a mandatory, privately managed occupational retirement protection system with provision for the preservation and portability of benefits.
The Secretary for the Treasury, Mr Donald Tsang, visits Beijing and Tianjin in a series of visits between Hong Kong and China aimed at increasing mutual understanding by Chinese and Hong Kong Govern- ment officials of each other's systems and ways of life.
A Preparatory Committee on Chinese Medicine is appointed to steer the compilation of a list of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Hong Kong and to help produce legislation to cover it.
Financial Secretary Sir Hamish Macleod visits the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and various developments, including port facilities and the airport, at the invitation of the Shenzhen Municipal Government.
The Secretary for the Treasury, Mr Kwong Ki-chi, leads a delegation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Finance Ministers' Meeting in Indonesia.
The Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, visits Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and meets, among other dignitaries, European Com- mission President Jacques Santer.
For the third successive year, Hong Kong is declared the world's busiest container port.
Hong Kong and Germany sign an air services agreement.
Hong Kong and the Shenzhen Municipal Government sign an agree- ment on the Stage I works of the Shenzhen River Regulation Project. These involve straightening the Shenzhen River to reduce the risk of flooding.
The Sino-British Land Commission agrees at its 30th meeting that the Land Disposal Programme for the 1995/96 financial year should