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Tuesday, November 20, 1973
He saw the task of the Training Council as helping to ensure
that Hong Kong would continue to have "a healthy and competitive industry,
a virile commerce and efficient services, capable of surviving in an
increasingly complex and sophisticated situation."
He emphasised: "To achieve our objective, we must have comprehensive
manpower planning which relates the manpower requirements of these sectors
of the economy, now and in the future, to the throughputs of our educational
system from secondary through to tertiary."
He hoped that by having senior government representatives on the
Executive Committee of the Council, its recommendations would be processed
without undue and unreasonable delay.
Nute to Editors:
The full text of Mr. Ann's speech is boxed for
collection.
BARGOED UNTIL 8 P.M.
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT
The Prime Minister is to pay an official visit to China, from 4th to 12th January, 1974, at the invitation of the People's Republic
of China.
He will come to Hong Kong after leaving China; the details of
his visit here will be announced later.
Release time: 7.45 p.m.