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Hong Kong and are delighted to welcome all our visitors to
this dynamic and exciting place.
As you get to know us, and remember the quite extre-
ordinary numbers of people who have come here to make it
their home over the years, how we have assimilated this
enormous number of pretty disparate people of different
backgrounds, languages and dialects, I think you will be
surprised. And when you visit China, as I understand a lot
of you intend to do, you may well, I think, understand even
more about Hong Kong.
I conclude by wishing the conference great success;
I trust you will renew old associations and make many new
friends and especially, though, that from now on you will all
be "friends of Hong Kong".
I now have great pleasure in declaring the 20th
International Conference on Social Welfare open.