THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1988
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LUNAR NEW YEAR BORDER CROSSING FIGURES RELEASED
13 ΤΟ FEBRUARY
21, TO HONG KONG BY OF 129,000
PERIOD YEAR
FROM DURING THE LUNAR NEW 577,400 PEOPLE WENT TO CHINA AND 317,000 RETURNED CROSSING THE BORDER AT LOWU, AND ON FEBRUARY 21, A RECORD PASSENGERS CROSSED THE BRIDGE.
REVEALING THE ABOVE FIGURE, MR CHAN PO-KWONG, POLICE DIVISIONAL
HAVE COMMANDER, BORDER, SAID: +OUR OFFICERS
ASSISTANCE WAS ALSO CROWD CONTROL TECHNIQUES. TACTICAL UNIT, EMERGENCY UNIT AND AUXILIARY POLICE STAFF.
BORDER CROSSING
EXERCISED FULLY
SOUGHT FROM
THEIR POLICE
IS MOVEMENT
IN THE
+ON AVERAGE, THE DAILY REGION OF 50,000 AND THE HIGHEST RECORDED WAS 140,000.
THE IN TREND HAS BEEN
UPWARD AN +THERE MOVEMENT FIGURE FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS. IT ROSE FROM 1985 TO 18,800,000 IN 1986 AND 22,900,000 LAST YEAR.
TOTAL PASSENGER
17,700,000 IN
THE +IN ADDITION TO THE PASSENGER TRAFFIC, SOME 60 PER CENT OF
INTO HONG KONG ARE LIVESTOCK AND BULK OF CHINESE PRODUCTS IMPORTED BROUGHT ACROSS LO WU BRIDGE BY GOODS TRAINS.
30 PER CENT ARE BROUGHT + AND SOME VEHICLES USING MAN KAM TO BRIDGE.
ACROSS
THE BORDER BY
+THE DAILY AVERAGE OF VEHICLES PASSING THE
TO 4,000 MAN KAM TO ROAD HAS INCREASED FROM MONTHS.
SOME
CROSSING POINT AT 20 WITHIN 8,400
+ON DECEMBER 31 LAST YEAR, A RECORD HIGH OF 9,460 VEHICLES COUNTED, PROBABLY DUE TO THE FULFILMENT OF TRADING QUOTAS. +
SAID:
+THE
POPULATION INTRODUCING THE AREA, MR CHAN FRONTIER CLOSED AREA 15 ABOUT 18,000. THE MAIN CONCENTRATIONS SHA TAU KOK VILLAGE ON THE EAST COAST. THE MAJORITY ARE HAKKA AND HOKLO FISHERMEN.
WAS
OF THE ARE IN FARMERS
+THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA 13,000 PEOPLE RESIDING IN 30 SMALL VILLAGES.
IS
POPULATED SPARSELY
WITH
SOME
OF
+MANY OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION HAVE EMIGRATED AND THE BULK
REMITTANCES FROM ABROAD POPULATION ARE ELDERLY WHO RELY MAINLY UPON FOR THEIR EXISTENCE.+
ANYONE ENTERING THE
CLOSED
AREA
IS
REQUIRED
TO
POSSESS
A
CURFEW PASSES ARE REQUIRED IN
FRONTIER CLOSED AREA PERMIT. A CURFEW IS MAINTAINED WITHIN THE CLOSED
AREA BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 4 AM DAILY. CASES OF NECESSITY.
/PERMITS ARE