THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1984
+BUT DESPITE ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY, HONG KONG WOULD NOT HAVE SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN MASS MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT SUFFICIENT QUALIFIED JOURNALISTS,+ HE SAID.
MR TSAO SAID THAT RECOGNISING THIS NEED, THE NEWS MEDIA HERE HAD BEEN ATTACHING INCREASING IMPORTANCE TO THE TRAINING OF JOURNALISTS AND OTHER COMMUNICATORS, WHILE THE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN GIVING A HELPING HAND TOWARDS THIS END.
+ I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU, AS MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE PRESS INSTITUTE, WILL WELCOME THESE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF JOURNALISM HERE IN HONG KONG, HE SAID.
HONG KONG'S NEWS MEDIA IN GENERAL, HE SAID, WERE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST IN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY.
WHERE THE PRINT MEDIA WERE CONCERNED, PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEWS ITEMS WERE SENT BY FACSIMILE THROUGH SATELLITE SYSTEMS, FOR PUBLICATION IN MAJOR CITIES OVERSEAS WITHIN A MATTER OF HOURS,
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, COMPUTERS HAD BROUGHT ABOUT A BREAKTHROUGH IN CHINESE TYPE-SETTING, THRUSTING THE CHINESE PRESS INTO AN ENTIRELY NEW EPOCH, MR TSAO POINTED OUT.
+AS THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT'S CENTRAL NEWS BODY, THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS CLOSELY, SO AS TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES TO THE MASS MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC.
+TO MAINTAIN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE NEWSPAPERS, RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS AND PRESS AGENCIES, THE GIS OPERATES A NETWORK OF TELEPRINTERS AND FACSIMILE EQUIPMENT 24 HOURS A DAY, HE POINTED OUT.
THIS NETWORK WAS ALSO CONSTANTLY RELAYING THE LATEST INFORMATION TO THE OVERSEAS OFFICES OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN MAJOR CITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES.
LOCALLY, THE GIS NOW HAD MORE THAN 80 SUBSCRIBERS ON ITS TELEPRINTER NETWORK AND MORE THAN 35 SUBSCRIBERS ON THE FACSIMILE NETWORK.
MR TSAO TOLD THE DELEGATES THAT THE GIS PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION HAD FOR SOME TIME BEEN USING WORD PROCESSING AS ITS MAIN DATA BASE FOR THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION.
+WE ARE PLANNING TO EXPAND OUR COMPUTERISATION TO OUR NEWS AND PUBLICITY DIVISIONS, SO AS TO IMPROVE OUR EFFICIENCY IN OTHER AREAS, HE SAID.
AFTER THE SPEECH, MR TSAO DECLARED THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INSTITUTE OPEN.
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