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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1990
REED
SAID:
DR
"THIS CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE WHICH BRINGS THE BEST AVAILABLE KONG."
IS THEREFORE CONTRACT
PIONEERING A GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR WASTE MANAGEMENT SKILLS INTO HONG
PRIVATE HE ADDED THAT THIS CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND
OF PART
THE WASTE DISPOSAL STRATEGY SECTORS WOULD BE AN INTEGRAL THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS DEVELOPING.
4TH QUARTER INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION RELEASED
THE INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION FOR THE 1989, AT 129, WAS 4 POINTS OR 3.0 PER CENT LOWER
ACCORDING
FOURTH QUARTER OF THAN THAT FOR THE TODAY RELEASED
TO STATISTICS OF 1988, FOURTH QUARTER (SATURDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
RATES OF 3.8 PER QUARTER
THIS COMPARES WITH THE YEAR-ON-YEAR GROWTH CENT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989, 1.7 PER CENT IN THE SECOND AND O PER CENT IN THE THIRD QUARTER. THE AVERAGE GROWTH RATE FOR OVER 1988 WAS 0.8 PER CENT.
COMPARED WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989, AND
SEASONAL
THE FACTORS, OF INFLUENCE
THE POSSIBLE DECREASE OF 5 POINTS OR 3.7 PER CENT.
SHOWING THE
LARGEST
1989
BEARING IN MIND INDEX SHOWED A
IN
PERCENTAGE INCREASES INDUSTRIES
OVER THE SAME QUARTER OF PRODUCTION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989
PER
BEVERAGES CENT);
PER (+13.6
CENT); 1988 WERE: TOBACCO (+17.6
AND PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (+9.3 PER CENT); (+8.2 PER CENT).
REPORTED
DECREASES IN ON THE OTHER HAND, SOMB INDUSTRIES
WERE: PRODUCTION COMPARED WITH THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988. AMONG THEM
RUBBER, PLASTIC AND WOODEN FOOTWEAR (EXCEPT LEATHER PRODUCTS AND
PRODUCTS, EXCEPT METAL FABRICATED FOOTWEAR) (-19.7 PER CENT);
AND MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (-14.8 PER CENT); WOOD AND CORK PRODUCTS,
PER CENT); FURNITURE AND FIXTURES (EXCEPT PRIMARILY OF METAL) (-13.3
PER (-11.2 RUBBER PRODUCTS (-12.5 PER CENT); CENT).
AND
PLASTIC
PRODUCTS
FOURTH
TRANSPORT
QUARTER OF COMPARING THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN THE
QUARTER, PRECEDING
THE FOLLOWING INDUSTRIES 1989 WITH THAT IN THE REPORTED INCREASES IN PRODUCTION: TOBACCO (+12.6 PER CENT); EQUIPMENT (+10.3 PER CENT); FOOD (+2.4 PER CENT); AND RUBBER (+1.9 PER CENT).
PRODUCTS
/AT THE