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VISIT TO SOUTHERN CHINA INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE: CHIEF SECRETARY
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AND WERE BOTHEJN 1 ERESTING
FORD, SAID THIS
THE VISITS TO GUANGDONG AND GUANG VERY INSTRUCTIVE, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID (FRIDAY) EVENING.
FIVE-DAY OFFICIAL
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ON HIS RETURN FROM A "ISIT 1Ụ CHINA, SIR DAVID SAID: "EVERYWHERE WE WENT WE MOST WARMLY AND THE PROGRAMME WHICH WAS LAID ON FOR
EXCELLENT."
WERE GREETED US WAS QUITE
THAT THE INTERESTED AND KONG AND I WHAT WAS
"THE DISCUSSIONS WITH OFFICIALS SHOWED VERY CLEARLY OFFICIALS BOTH IN GUANGDONG AND IN GUANGXI ARE VERY ANXIOUS ΤΟ IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH HONG THINK THAT WE WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND MUCH HAPPENING IN THOSE AREAS.
ABOUT MORE
"IN GUANGDONG WE WERE BRIEFED VERY FULLY ON THE INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS THERE AND IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT THE ECONOMIES OF HONG KONG TO BE AND GUANGDONG, AS THEY ARE MOVING CLOSER TOGETHER, IT'S GOING TO VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE STAY IN TOUCH ON INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS, HE SAID.
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"WE HAD A VERY CLEAR BRIEFING OF WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO AND WE,
DEVELOPMENTS IN IN TURN, GAVE THEM A BRIEFING ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURB HONG KONG, HE ADDED.
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THE SITUATION IN GUANGXI WAS WELL ADVANCED. "BUT CLEARLY THE POTENTIAL THERE IS GREAT INDEED; ARE ALSO PUTTING A FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE IN TERMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR ROADS, THE RAILWAY, THE POWER SUPPLIES AND THEIR PORT;
VERY BIG LABOUR HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF GOOD FORMED LAND; THEY HAVE
IS SHORT SUPPLY OBVIOUSLY, AND THOSE ARE TWO THINGS THAT HONG KONG OF.'
DAVID SIR
SAID IT WAS
IMPORTANT
ΤΟ HAVE A VERY CLEAR AIRPORT AND PORT UNDERSTANDING WITH GUANGDONG THAT PLANS FOR THE
PLACE IN DEVELOPMENTS THERE WOULD BE COMPLEMENTARY TO THOSE TAKING HONG KONG AND NOT IN COMPETITION.
BCONOMIC SERVICES,
MRS ANSON CHAN, WHO THE SECRETARY FOR
THAT STRUCK ACCOMPANIED SIR DAVID ON THE VISIT SAID THE FIRST THING
PLACED ON INFRASTRUCTURAL THEM WAS THE GREAT EMPHASIS THE CHINESE
TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY ON COMMUNICATION, THAT WAS TELECOMMUNICATION.
MR GONG HAD PLANS TO IN
"ON PORT AND AIRPORT FACILITIES, THE VICE-GOVERNOR, CHI, WAS AT PAINS TO STRESS TO US THAT ALTHOUGH THEY EXPAND THEIR PORT AND AIRPORT FACILITIES, THESE WERE NOT INTENDED ANY WAY TO REPLACE OUR OWN FACILITIES OR TO ACT IN COMPETITION.
ACTING AS A
THAT
" BUT THEN HE SAW HIS FACILITIES AS VERY MUCH COMPLEMENT TO HONG KONG FACILITIES AND HE PARTICULARLY STRESSED FOR A LONG, LONG TIME TO COME THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO USE THE HONG KONG PORT, SHE SAID.
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"AS REGARDS