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"AS
WOULD START I EXPECT
REGARDS THE AIRPORT, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY
OPERATION BY ABOUT SEPTEMBER NEXT YEAR, AND COMMISSIONING THAT THE AIRPORT MAY WELL BE IN OPERATION BY 1992," MRS CHAN SAID.
IS
THE
"THAT AIRPORT
IN FOR DOMESTIC USE WHILST OBVIOUSLY LONGER RUN IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE DEVELOPED AS AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WE HAVE FORMED THE IMPRESSION THAT FOR THE SEVERAL YEARS COME THEY WILL MAINLY SERVE LOCAL NEEDS," SHE ADDED.
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ON HONG KONG-CHINA RELATIONS, SIR DAVID SAID AS FAR AS HIS TRIP WAS CONCERNED, AND AS
THE FAR AS SOUTHERN CHINA WAS CONCERNED, RELATIONSHIP WAS OBVIOUSLY GOOD.
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WILL THE LAST THAT CAN THINK IT
"I THINK THEY ARE VERY ANXIOUS TO IMPROVE IT. I THINK WE MORE VISITS OF THE SORT THAT WE HAVE CARRIED OUT OVER DAYS. I THINK THEY WILL BE AT ALL LEVELS, AND I THINK ONLY BE BENEFICIAL TO BOTH SOUTHERN CHINA AND HONG KONG, I WAS VERY FRUITFUL FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW," HE SAID.
WHILE IN GUANGDONG, THE CHIEF SECRETARY DISCUSSED AT SOME LENGTH THE PROBLEM OF CAR SMUGGLING INTO CHINA AND EXCHANGED VIEWS ON IMPROVEMENTS WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE.
THROUGH
THE
HE SAID CLEARLY THE WAY TO TAKE THIS FORWARD WAS BORDER LIAISON GROUP WHERE DISCUSSIONS WERE NOW TAKING PLACE.
THEY
"BUT IT WAS ALSO VERY USEFUL TO HEAR FROM OFFICIALS WHAT WERE DOING; HOW THEY WERE STEPPING UP THEIR ACTIONS BOTH IN THE BORDER THE AREA AND IN TERMS OF THE INLAND ITSELF; AND ALSO TO HEAR SOME OF PROBLEMS WHICH THEY ENCOUNTERED IN TRYING TO FIND THE CARS AND DEALING WITH PEOPLE, HE SAID.
"SO IT WAS A USEFUL EXCHANGE OF VIEWS; NO QUICK FIX OF THE PROBLEM, BUT CERTAINLY A LOT OF CO-OPERATION IN WANTING TO BRING ABOUT AN IMPROVEMENT, HE ADDED.
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SIR
UP DAVID SAID THAT THE CHINESE HAD CLEARLY STEPPED
THEIR EFFORTS ON THE BORDER, ADDING THAT: "THEY ARE WITHIN, GUANGDONG ITSELF, MAKING EFFORTS TO TRACK DOWN ON CARS WHICH HAVE BEEN GONE MISSING; THEY ARE STEPPING UP THEIR ENFORCEMENT AND SO ON, I THINK IS A VERY GENERAL EFFORT ACROSS THE BOARD.
"
"BUT THE PROBLEM IS NOT SIMPLE FROM THE CHINESE POINT THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF HONG KONG CARS CIRCULATING IN
AND THEREFORE IT DOESN'T MEAN TO SAY THAT QUITE LEGALLY, WHICH IS A RIGHT-HAND DRIVE CAR OR WHICH HAS AN ODD NUMBER NECESSARY STOLEN.
IT
OF VIEW. GUANGDONG
EVERY CAR PLATE IS
"THAT IS ONE PROBLEM, ANOTHER PROBLEM IS THAT MANY CARS ARE So BROKEN DOWN INTO SPARE PARTS VERY QUICKLY AFTER ARRIVING IN CHINA.
EFFORTS WHICH IT ISN'T EASY AND WE WERE, AS I SAY, IMPRESSED BY THE THEY ARE TAKING TO TRY TO STEP UP THEIR ACTION," HE SAID.
SIR DAVID SAID HIS VISIT TO BEI HAI IN QUANGXI WAS FOR TWO REASONS: "FIRSTLY, TO LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT THERE; AND IT IS IN FACT A VERY ATTRACTIVE CITY. I THINK IT HAS A POTENTIAL TO BE A VERY INTERESTING TOURIST DESTINATION AND WE DISCUSSED POSSIBILITIES TO TAKING THAT FURTHER."
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