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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989
HONG
COMMUNITY
ALSO
REPRESENTED
BY PRIVATE KONG IS "IN ADDITION,
IN BODIES
HUNDREDS OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL OR INDIVIDUALS
AND CULTURAL FIELDS. ORGANISATIONS IN THE BUSINESS, SPORTING
IT HE SAID. VOICE IS NOW BEING HEARD MORE OFTEN AND TO BETTER EFFECT,
OUR
CALLED
ON
THE
THE WORLD,
GOVERNOR ON HONG KONG'S IMAGE IN MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO ACT AS AMBASSADORS FOR HONG KONG,
HAD
VERY FOUGHT
THAT
HARD, WITH CONSIDERABLE HE SAID HONG KONG SUCCESS, TO OVERCOME AN INTERNATIONAL IMAGE WHICH FOR YEARS WAS OF A PRODUCER OF CHEAP, LOW QUALITY GOODS, AND PEOPLE HAD BEGUN TO SEE MODERN CITY OF SUCCESSFUL BUSTLING. HONG KONG FOR WHAT IT WAS ENTREPRENEURS.
-
A
EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL. "BUT IMAGES ARE OFTEN CREATED BY
PEOPLE WHEN THE NAME OF HONG KONG IS MENTIONED NOWADAYS, FAR TOO MANY PROBABLY THINK EITHER OF 1997 OR OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE.
MORE
BALANCED
"WE MUST DO WHAT WE CAN TO PROJECT A POSITIVE IMAGE OF THIS EXCITING CITY. WE MUST EMPHASISE WE HAVE MADE, IN EVERY FIELD FROM THE ECONOMY TO HOUSING.
AND
MORE
THE PROGRESS
TODAY, "WE MUST DRAW ATTENTION TO THE ATTRACTIONS OF HONG KONG
AND WE MUST. ABOVE FOR ITS OWN PEOPLE AND FOR THOSE FROM OVERSEAS.
TO BUILD FOR OUR OURSELVES DOING ALL, TELL THE WORLD WHAT WE ARE FUTURE, HE SAID.
"
HE WOULD HIMSELF AS PART OF TO THE WIDEST
SIR DAVID SAID THAT AT THE END OF THIS WEEK, BE LEAVING FOR WASHINGTON, LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO
MESSAGES THESE THE GOVERNMENT'S POSSIBLE AUDIENCE.
ΤΟ EFFORT
SPREAD
ALL OF US CAN "THIS IS NOT JUST A JOB FOR THE GOVERNMENT. AS AMBASSADORS FOR HONG KONG.
HONG THE
ACT
KONG TOURIST AN IMPORTANT PART IN
"THE TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, ASSOCIATION AND OUR CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE PLAY MAKING HONG KONG'S ATTRACTIONS KNOWN TO A WIDER AUDIENCE.
"THIS MESSAGE HAS PARTICULAR FORCE WHEN IT COMES BUSINESSMEN WHO THEMSELVES LIVE AND WORK IN HONG KONG,
MANY HAD BEEN WILLING TO HELP IN THEIR EFFORTS.
FROM FOREIGN HE SAID.
THIS WAY, AND HE WELCOMED
"WE ALSO WANT TO DRAW ON THEIR EXPERIENCE TO INVOLVE THEM IN THE LIFE OF OUR COMMUNITY,"
MORE
SETTING UP SIR DAVID SAID AS PART OF THIS HE HAD APPROVED THE
BY CHAIRED
THE CHIEF TO BE OF AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMMITTEE,
COMMERCE WOULD SECRETARY, ON WHICH ALL THE MAIN OVERSEAS CHAMBERS OF BE REPRESENTED.
TALENTS
OF
"THIS WILL PROVIDE A VALUABLE MEANS OF TAPPING THE OVERSEAS BUSINESSMEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY," HE SAID.
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