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Hong Kong's trade and industry in the coming
year. Everyone hopes that the present prosperity
will continue but, as an entrepôt, Hong Kong must
often be at the mercy of events over which she
has little control. Trade with China, inevitably
of fundamental importance to Hong Kong's
prosperity, has changed its pattern and content
and he would be a rash man who tried to
minimise current difficulties or to forecast
what the long term prospects might be.
It should not however be imagined that I am
pessimistic about Hong Kong's future prosperity.
Whatever difficulties may lie ahead I am
Bure that the trading and industrial community
of Hong Kong will meet them with all the
courageous enterprise, skill and adaptability
that they have shown in the past. The
achievements of the past five years are evidence
of what Hong Kong can do.
May