PR 33
香港政府
GIS新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Saturday, March 6, 1976
Following is the full text of the Governor's speech at the
American Chambers of Commerce Conference:
"Mr. President, Mr. Consul General, Mr. Miller, Ladies and
Gentlemen, it is indeed an honour for Hong Kong to be chosen as the
location for this meeting of the Asian Pacific Council of Chambers of
Commerce in this, the bicentennial year of your great Republic.
"But it is also perhaps appropriate. Hong Kong's links with
the United States go back to the early years of its foundation more than
130 years ago and they reflect the close links that have always existed
between the Americans and the British.
"Today the United States is Hong Kong's biggest export market
and our third biggest source of imports after China and Japan. It is
our largest source of foreign investment in industry, commerce and Banking.
And the U.S. dollar is the yardstick by which we measure the Hong Kong
dollar, as well as the intervention unit for regulating it. Numbers of
/our people
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