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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1989
WE CAN BE PROUD OF OUR PROGRESS : GOVERNOR
THE TEXT FOLLOWING IS GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON:
OF THE NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM THE
"THE START OF A NEW DECADE IS A GOOD TIME TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT TO THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE ACHIEVED IN THE 1980s AND TO LOOK FORWARD OF THE DECADE AHEAD.
MADE IN THE 1980s. HAVE BEEN IMPROVED
"WE CAN BE PROUD OF THE PROGRESS WE HAVE
AND TRANSPORT SERVICES OUR HOUSING, EDUCATION ENORMOUSLY. OUR STANDARD OF LIVING HAS RISEN TO HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLE TEN YEARS AGO. THERE IS COMMUNITY AND A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE THINGS KONG THE UNIQUE SOCIETY IT IS.
A LEVEL THAT WOULD A STRONGER SENSE OF MAKE HONG
WHICH
HAVE YEAR,
ALSO IN WHICH WE LIVE. THESE NEW DIFFICULTIES FOR
"THE PAST DECADE, AND PARTICULARLY THIS PAST SREN CHANGES TO THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT HAVE CREATED NEW CHALLENGES FOR US TO FACE AND US TO OVERCOME.
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INDEED EDUCATIONAL
AND "WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO PREPARE FOR THE 1990s WELL BEYOND, INTO THE NEXT CENTURY. BY PLANNING TO EXPAND
UP THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES WE ARE LOOKING TO BUILD
GENERATIONS THAT ALSO MAKE SURE THAT HONG KONG MUST RELY ON FOR THE FUTURE. WR MUST
LEADING HONG KONG HAS ALL THE FACILITIES IT NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO BE A
THAT IS WHERE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR TRADE, COMMERCE AND FINANCE. THE PLANS FOR A NEW AIRPORT, AND GREATLY EXPANDED PORT, BY MAKING GREATER
EFFORTS
TO
IMPROVE
FIT IN. AND
THE ENVIRONMENT,
WE
DETERMINED TO ENSURE THAT HONG KONG REMAINS A PLACE WORTH LIVING IN.
"BUT, ABOVE ALL, AS WE
ARE
LOOK FORWARD TO THE
1990B AND THE
WE MUST CHANGES THAT LIE AHEAD,
BUILD ON OUR
BEING SENSE OF
A USE THE COMMUNITY. MUCH OF OUR FUTURE LIES IN OUR OWN HANDS. WE MUST
MADE HONG ENERGY THAT HAS
KONG PROSPEROUS TO PRESERVE
VERY SPECIAL SOCIETY AND TO MAKE HONG KONG AN EVEN BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE AND WORK.
OUR
IN WISHING "AT THE START OF THE NEW DECADE MY FAMILY JOINS ME ALL THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 1990."
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