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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1988
IN 1987 THEIR
USING
THE TASK FORCE ESTIMATED THAT SOME 30,000 PEOPLE LEFT
EMIGRANTS RETURNED WHILE AT THE SAME TIME 3,000 FORMER OLD HONG KONG TRAVEL DOCUMENTS.
EMIGRATE THIS WOULD RETURN IN
IT ALSO ESTIMATED THAT SOME 45,000 PEOPLE WOULD YEAR WITH NO CERTAINTY ON HOW MANY FORMER EMIGRANT'S THE YEAR, HE SAID.
HOWEVER, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT EMIGRATION FROM HAD ALWAYS FLUCTUATED A GREAT DEAL.
FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE MID-1970'S THE AVERAGE 38,000 PEOPLE A YEAR.
HONG KONG
OUTFLOW WAS ABOUT
SET AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND INCREASE COMPARED WITH THE THAT ON AVERAGE 20,000
"THE LATEST FORECASTS SHOULD BE ALTHOUGH THEY DO OF COURSE REPRESENT AN
IS ESTIMATED PERIOD 1981 TO 1986, WHEN IT PEOPLE A YEAR EMIGRATED.
FAMILY,
FROM THE
THE
QUOTED VERY
"IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE ESTIMATES I HAVE
TO ELDERLY INCLUDE ALL MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG, SIR DAVID SAID.
H
WERE
OF THOSE
POINTING OUT THAT ONLY JUST OVER HALF OF THOSE EMIGRATING DAVID SAID
HALF LESS THAN IN FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, SIR EMPLOYED WERE IN PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE OR MANAGERIAL POSITIONS.
"IT 15
NOT THEREFORE
ΤΟ CORRECT
P+
ASSUME THAT 45,000 HE SAID.
PROFESSIONALS WILL LEAVE HONG KONG THIS YEAR,
THE TRUE FIGURE WAS LESS THAN A QUARTER OF THAT, HE ADDED.
SIGNIFICANT
FACTOR WAS THAT THAN THEY HAD
SIR DAVID SAID ANOTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMIGRATION WERE PROBABLY HIGHER NOW EVER BEEN,
WITH
A
GLOBAL
SYSTEM QUOTA
"DESTINATION COUNTRIES INCREASED THEIR OVERALL NUMBER OF PLACES, THUS MAKING HONG KONG PEOPLE," HE EXPLAINED.
HAVE MORE ROOM FOR
"MOREOVER, THE POINTS
SYSTEMS
OPERATED BY
SOME DESTINATION IN HONG SIR
I
COUNTRIES GIVE STRONG PREFERENCE TO THE BETTER EDUCATED AND
WHO ARE WELL EDUCATED, KONG WE HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE
DAVID ADDED.
SIR DAVID
THAT MEMBERS ASSURED
THE FREEDOM INTERFERING IN ANY WAY WITH
THERE WAS
OF PEOPLE
OF QUESTION NO
ΤΟ TRAVEL AND
SETTLE ELSEWHERE.
"THIS FREEDOM IS FUNDAMENTAL.
/"ITS CONTINUATION