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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1988
IT WOULD ALSO TELL THE WORLD THAT HONG KONG WAS HEADING NEW BEGINNING UNDER THE CONCEPT OF "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS"
FOR A
WAS GOVERNMENT
CONCERNED THAT MR CHEUNG SAID THAT WHILE THE
BURDEN ON THE HOSTING AN EXPO MIGHT THRUST AN UNNECESSARY FINANCIAL
WITH DETERMINATION, FUTURE SAR GOVERNMENT, IT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT
CO-ORDINATE THE PREPARATORY WORK WITH OTHER
TO
IT WOULD BE ABLE PROJECTS.
AN EXPO WOULD
NECESSARILY NOT
PROJECTS.
HAMPER LONG-TERM
HONG KONG NEEDS AN EXPO
DEVELOPMENT
IN 1997
THE
MORE THAN ANY LEGISLATIVE
HONG KONG NEEDS AN EXPO AND NEEDS IT OTHER POINT IN OUR HISTORY, THE HON SELINA CHOW TOLD COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY).
SIX MONTHS OF THE NINE YEARS OF LEAD-UP
MRS CHOW SAID HONG KONG NEEDED AN EXPO FOR THE ACTIVITIES, AND NEEDED IT MORE FOR WHAT WOULD DO FOR ITS PEOPLE.
EXPO 97 WOULD
LEAVE
AN
INDELIBLE MARK
OF
ACHIEVEMENT
AND
STANDARD ON THE WORLD, FOR YEARS TO COME.
OF "DOOM AND
AND MORE
HAD THE
BUILDING
THAT
IT WOULD ALSO BE A GOOD WAY TO REPLACE THE MOOD GLOOM" WITH THE POSITIVE ENTERPRISE OF CREATING,
A PROJECT THROUGH IMPORTANT, AN ACT OF COMMITMENT ESTABLISHED RECOGNITION BY THE WORLD, SHE SAID.
A CLEAR POSITIVE
KONG CAN IT
KONG, WE NEED "AT THIS TIME IN THE HISTORY OF HONG SENSE OF PURPOSE, A VISION TO COMMIT OURSELVES TO SOMETHING
WHICH IN THE FUTURE, RELATE, A GOAL FROM WHICH WE CAN EMERGE PROUD AND SAY WE ACHIEVED TOGETHER FOR THE WORLD TO SEE."
A
CONCRETE
FOCUS
TO
ALL OF HONG
MRS CHOW SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD DONE NOTHING TO STUDY THE PROS AND CONS OF THE EXPO CONCEPT.
"IT DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH ITS
SHE SAID. AND EVEN THAT IT DID NOT DO VERY WELL,
CASE AGAINST
IT
H
/NOTING THAT