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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,
1990
"JUST LOOK AROUND THE TERRITORY.
TWENTY SUCCESSFUL
WE HAVE OVER THE PAST YEARS EMBARKED ON ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST IMAGINATIVE AND NEW TOWN BUILDING PROGRAMMES.
INTO MODERN COMMUNITIES "WE HAVE MOVED TWO MILLION PEOPLE
WELFARE, COMPLETE WITH SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, CLINICS AND COMPREHENSIVE CULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.
"IN ADDITION AND AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE BUILT TWO NEW TRANSIT SYSTEMS, A SECOND TUNNEL UNDER THE HARBOUR AND SEVERAL UNDER OUR MOUNTAINS," HE SAID.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT ALL BUDGET AND AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
RAPID
OTHERS
THESE WERE WITHIN
YEARS.
"IN EDUCATION, WE HAVE ACHIEVED FREE EDUCATION FOR NINB IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH WE HAVE ERADICATED PREVIOUSLY ENDEMIC DISEASES. "WE HAVE REDUCED INFANT MORTALITY RATES TO BELOW THE LEVELS OF
APART FROM JAPAN AND SCANDINAVIA, AND
THAN THOSE IN EITHER THE UNITED
BVERYWHERE
AVERAGE
LONGER ON UNITED STATES.
OUR PEOPLE LIVE KINGDOM OR THE
"AND ALL THIS WITH NO FOREIGN AID PROGRAMMES TO HELP
EXPENDITURE BELOW 20 PER CENT OF GDP. WHILE KEEPING PUBLIC
"NOTHING 'LAME DUCKISH' ABOUT THAT RECORD THINK, HE SAID.
US
AND
OF ACHIEVEMENT
I
IT AS TO THE FUTURE, THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID
то FORGET BEEN MUCH EASIER TO TAKE THE LOW ROAD, POLLUTION, EDUCATION AND POLICY PLANNING.
HAD
WOULD INDEED
ABOUT PADS,
SIR, MIGHT
"OUR LIVES WOULD MUCH MORE SIMPLE AND YOU AND I, HAVE HAD FEWER GREY HAIRS AND THE OCCASIONAL WEEKEND TO CALL OUR OWN.
DO
AND INDEED
ON
STRESSES THE
"BUT ALL OF US IN THE GOVERNMENT ARE COMMITTED TO STRIVE TO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG REGARDLESS OF THE
MAY AND STRAINS
IMPOSE ON US PERSONALLY THAT ADMINISTRATION AS A WHOLE," SIR DAVID SAID.
HE
SAID HE BELIEVED IT WOULD BE TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT TO REST ON ITS LAURELS AND TAKE THE EASY ROAD TO DOING THE MINIMUM NEEDED TO KEEP HONG KONG TICKING OVER.
SAYING
CHINESE IN THE "WE ARE FIRM BELIEVERS CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS WE LAG BEHIND' BAT JUN JAK TUI.
OF 1997 BY
THE
'UNLESS WB
"SO WE HAVE LIFTED OUR HORIZON WELL BEYOND 1997 AND ARE PLANS FOR THE NEXT CENTURY," HE SAID.
THE
IN ADDITION TO BUILDING A NEW AIRPORT, GOVERNMENT WAS NOW FIRMLY ON TRACK IN
ON A MASSIVE SCALE
MAKING
THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID EXPANDING THE TERTIARY BY MORE THAN DOUBLING THE EDUCATION PROVISION OF FIRST DEGREE PLACES BY 1995 AMONG OTHER THINGS.
SECTOR
/"OUR THIRD