FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1988
9,
"OUR IMPRESSION IS THAT THE CHINESE HAVE ABSORBED THESE
REFLECT THEM, AND THAT THE NEXT VERSION OF THE LAW WILL SAID.
"
SIR
VIEWS, DAVID
PUTTING INTO PERSPECTIVE STORIES ABOUT THE "BRAIN HONG KONG, THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THE FACT THAT ALWAYS EMIGRATED FROM HONG KONG.
DRAIN" FROM PEOPLE HAVE
30,000 PEOPLE
TO
IN THE LATE 1970S THE NET OUTFLOW WAS MORE THAN IN A YEAR AND IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THIS DECADE THE NUMBER DROPPED 20,000.
TO
"BUT IN THE LAST THREE YEARS WE HAVE SEEN A SHARP INCREASE,
PEOPLE 40,000
ΤΟ EMIGRATE THE POINT WHERE WE EXPECT SOMETHING OVER
SAID SIR DAVID. FROM THE TERRITORY THIS YEAR,
DESTINATIONS WERE CANADA, AUSTRALIA NOTING THAT THE FAVOURED
NOT FLEEING AND THE UNITED STATES, SIR DAVID SAID: "THESE PEOPLE ARE WHEREVER THEY CAN: MOST OF THEM ARE SIMPLY GOING TO A BETTER LIFE.
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THIS REFERS TO THE FACT
NOTABLY COUNTRIES,
HAVE CANADA,
"AS FOR THE LABEL 'BRAIN DRAIN' THAT IN RECENT YEARS THE RECEIVING PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON THE ECONOMIC EDGE OF THEIR IMMIGRATION PROGRAMME.
"THIS HAS ENABLED EVEN THOSE WHO HAVE NO CONNECTIONS COUNTRY TO EMIGRATE IF THEY POSSESS SKILLS OR ABILITIES WHICH DEMAND, HE ADDED.
"
WITH THE ARE IN
JOIN THEIR FAMILIES, AS
DEPENDENT AUNTS,
CHILDREN,
"MANY OF THOSE LEAVING ARE GOING TO THEY ALWAYS
UNMARRIED BEEN HAVE GRANDMOTHERS AND SO FORTH.
BUT HONG KONG'S ECONOMY IS
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT.
"WE MAY BE SORRY TO SEE THEM GO, NOT GOING TO COLLAPSE BECAUSE THEY HAVE LEFT,
+
OF THE 40,000 OR SO INTENDING TO LEAVE THIS YEAR, ONLY CENT WERE ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE IN HONG KONG.
50 PER
SO
"OF THAT 50 PER CENT, ONLY HALF ARE
10,000 WE ARE
ABOUT TALKING PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AREA,
"
WHO PEOPLE
NIE SAID.
PROFESSIONALLY QUALIFIED. ARE FROM THE
KEY
SIR DAVID SAID THAT IN TWO RESPECTS, WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE PHENOMENON.
HOWEVER, THE GOVERNMENT
THERE WAS FIRSTLY THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT ON THOSE WHO DO CHOOSE TO GO.
"IT WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE WORRYING IF PEOPLE BEGAN THERE WAS SOME BUS THAT THEY WERE MISSING. THEY ARE NOT ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO THIS AND ARE WATCHING IT CLOSELY,
NOT
TO FEEL THAT YET, BUT WE HE SAID.
/SECONDLY, THE