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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1989
"ON A COMPARISION OF POPULATION
DENSITIES, OUR PRESENT UNITED VIETNAMESE POPULATION OF 56,000 WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT IN THE STATES OF OVER 13 MILLION, AND IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF OVER ONE MILLION, OVER HALF OF WHOM WOULD HAVE ARRIVED THIS YEAR.
HAVE "THE FEELING IN HONG KONG IS THAT WE
THE
BORNE THIS BURDEN LONG ENOUGH, AND THAT IT IS NOW UP TO
COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL THE UK AND THE UNHCR TO RELIEVE US OF PRESSURES WHICH ARE BECOMING INTOLERABLE.
"CERTAINLY WITHOUT RELIEF OF SOME SORT HONG KONG COULD NOT STAND ANOTHER YEAR SUCH AS 1989."
HK FACILITATING CHINA'S OPEN DOOR POLICIES: SES
DEVELOPMENTS TO DATE INDICATE THAT HONG KONG WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN FACILITATING CHINA'S OPEN DOOR POLICIES AND MODERNISATION PROGRAMMES, THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MRS ANSON CHAN, SAID.
IN LOCATING THREE OUT OF THE FOUR SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES IN
PROVINCE AT GUANGDONG, AND IN PLACING GUANGDONG
THE FOREFRONT OF ITS OPEN DOOR POLICIES AND ECONOMIC REFORMS, CHINA HAD ACKNOWLEDGED THE IMPORTANT ROLE WHICH HONG KONG WAS PLAYING IN BRINGING CHINA THE 21ST CENTURY, SHE ADDED.
INTO
SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE HONG KONG CANADA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION IN MONTREAL, CANADA YESTERDAY (TUESDAY), MRS CHAN POINTED OUT THAT THE GROWING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA WAN VERY MUCH ONE OF INTERDEPENDENCE.
"AT THE SAME TIME THAT CHINA IS BENEFITTING FROM HONG KONG WE ARE ALSO PROSPERING FROM THE OPENING UP OF CHINA.
"THIS STEMS FROM THE INCREASED FLOW OF GOODS THROUGH HONG KONG AS AND THE INCREASED DEMAND FOR HONG KONG'S SERVICES AND FACILITIES, WELL AS FROM CHINA EMERGING AS A MARKET FOR HONG KONG'S GOODS AND AS A PLACE FOR EXTENDING OUR MANUFACTURING CAPACITY, SHE SAID.
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MRS CHAN. WHO IS CURRENTLY IN MONTREAL FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANISATION, SAID THAT THESE ACTIVITIES HAD COME ABOUT LARGELY THROUGH PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES, WITH THE GOVERNMENT PLAYING A SUPPORTING ROLE.
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF RECENT EVENTS IN CHINA, SHE SAID
THE WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECTS FOR
ASIAN REGION WHOLE AND THE IMPACT ON HONG KONG WAS SWIFT AND SHARP.
THESE
AS A
/SHE NOTED