TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1987
MORE ECVIIS TO BE REPATRIATED
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (TUESDAY) ANNOUNCED THAT A FURTHER 807 EX-CHINA VIETNAMESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED TO GUANGDONG, CHINA, IN THREE GROUPS THIS WEEK.
THE GROUP TO BE REPATRIATED TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) COMPRISES 241 ECVIIS, THEY WILL BE RETURNED ΤΟ PINGSHA OVERSEAS CHINESE FARM, HONGQI FARM AND QINGYUAN HUA QIAO FARM.
ANOTHER TWO BATCHES OF 297 AND 269 ECVIIS WILL BE RETURNED TO CHINA ON THURSDAY (SEPTEMBER 3) AND SATURDAY (SEPTEMBER 5). THEY WILL BE SENT BACK TO ZHUJIANG HUA QIAO FARM AND YANGCUN ORANGE FARM RESPECTIVELY.
THIS WEEK'S REPATRIATION EXERCISE WILL BRING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF 1,852 ECVIIS RETURNED TO CHINA SINCE THE REPATRIATION PROGRAMME STARTED ON AUGUST 22.
HALF YEARLY RE-EXPORTS FIGURES RELEASED
HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS, AT $80,127 MILLION IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1987, INCREASED BY 51 PER CENT IN VALUE TERMS AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, ACCORDING TO A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET AND BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
RE-EXPORTS BY MARKET
THE CHANGES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ΤΟ 10 MAJOR MARKETS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE 1.
CHINA, THE U.S.A., TAIWAN, THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND JAPAN, THE TOP FIVE MARKETS FOR HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS, SHARED 32 PER CENT,
19 PER CENT, 5 PER CENT, 5 PER CENT AND 5 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY OF THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1987. FOR THE SAME MARKETS, THE PERCENTAGE SHARES IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1986 WERE 33 PER CENT, 17 PER CENT, 5 PER CENT, 5 PER CENT AND 5 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
1986,
WITH
COMPARING THE FIRST HALF OF 1987 WITH THE FIRST HALF OF ALL MAJOR MARKETS RECORDED INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS, THE MORE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES RECORDED FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM (+105 PER CENT), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+98 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+65 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+63 PER CENT) AND TATWAN (+59 PER CENT).
/CHINA REMAINED