FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1989
IN RECENT STILL
MR SZE SAID ALTHOUGH HONG KONG HAD HAD SOME SUCCESS
BASE, GARMENT YEARS IN
MANUFACTURING DIVERSIFYING ITS CONSTITUTED AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE TERRITORY'S EXPORTS.
EXPORTERS. IN HONG KONG IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARMENT
$67.3 AMOUNTED TO EXPORTS OF GARMENT DOMESTIC 1988, HONG KONG'S BILLION, REPRESENTING 31 PER CENT OF ITS OVERALL DOMESTIC EXPORTS.
SOME 280,000 WORKERS. INDUSTRIAL
EMPLOYMENT
IN
THE GARMENT INDUSTRY CURRENTLY EMPLOYS EQUIVALENT TO ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE TOTAL HONG KONG.
JUNE EMPLOYMENT, VACANCIES AND PAYROLL STATISTICS RELEASED
SECTOR
THERE WERE 824,300 PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURING
CENT IN COMPARISON IN JUNE 1989, REPRESENTING A DECREASE OF 5.1 PER
(FRIDAY) BY THE WITH JUNE 1988, ACCORDING TO FIGURES RELEASED TODAY CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
EMPLOYMENT IN THE
WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL, IMPORT AND EXPORT IN 746,300
JUNE 1989,
TRADES AND RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR, AT WAS 5.1 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN JUNE 1988.
EMPLOYMENT
IN THE FINANCING,
INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR, AT 253,300, WAS UP BY 12.2 PER CENT.
EMPLOYMENT AT CONSTRUCTION SITES
COMPARED WITH JUNE 1988.
A DEPARTMENTAL SPOKESMAN
SAID IN JUNE
AND
INCREASED BY 2.5 PER CENT
FOR
THE STATISTICS
SELECTED 1989 WERE DERIVED FROM THE AND PAYROLL CONDUCTED BY
MAJOR SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY QUARTERLY SURVEY OF EMPLOYMENT, VACANCIES THE DEPARTMENT.
THESE SECTORS COVER THE
EXPORT AND RETAIL, IMPORT
AND THE SECTOR: SERVICES SECTOR. CONSTRUCTION SITES.
AND FINANCING, THERE IS A
MANUFACTURING SECTOR: THE
TRADES AND
REAL INSURANCE,
SEPARATE EMPLOYMENT
WHOLESALE
AND RESTAURANTS
AND ESTATE
SURVEY
HOTELS
BUSINES9
COVERING
SELECTED
CORRESPONDING
WITH
WITH
THE
THE OVERALL EMPLOYMENT FIGURES FOR JUNE 1989 IN THESE MAJOR ECONOMIC
COMPARISON FIGURES FOR JUNE 1988 AND MARCH 1989, ARE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTORS,
/SELECTED MAJOR