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The first priority of development is intensive forms of
agriculture such as the production of dairy products, pigs, poultry,
fish and fruit for the Hong Kong market. I gathered that one of the
objects was to reduce the demands of long hauls on the Chinese
communications system.
They also envisage later an area of light industry between
This will include ship breaking, the manufacture
Shekou and Shenzhen.
of steel wire and paint, and vehicle assembly. They are also planning
to develop Shenzhen itself and the Meisha beaches for tourism.
They said that the developments are at present on a small scale,
but they hope they will grow with Hong Kong participation, Arrangements
for the freer movement of trucks across the bridge at Man Kam To may be
necessary as things develop.
Generally speaking Hong Kong participation in industry anywhere
is very welcome indeed. But the Guangdong Planning Commission clearly
think that the area most likely to attract Hong Kong investors in
Guangdong will be Shenzhen,
Incidentally they welcomed the new electricity supply from China
Light and Power.
I said that all these ideas were welcome in principle and were
being and no doubt would be followed up by the private sector on a basis
/of commercial