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"THE MAJOR INVESTMENTS IN TRANSPORT LINKS PUT HONG KONG IN CLOSER AND MORE DIRECT CONTACT WITH GUANGDONG, WHERE SOME THREE MILLION CHINESE WORKERS ARE HELPING HONG KONG MANUFACTURERS WITH OUTWARD PROCESSING ACTIVITIES ALONG THE PEARL RIVER DELTA.
"THIS MUST BE CONDUCIVE ΤΟ THE FURTHER STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA, HE SAID.
OF
TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, MR LAM NOTED THAT IT WAS FIRST STARTED IN THE MID-1960's.
TO SYNCHRONIZE AIMED AT PROVIDING
PEOPLE.
IT WAS ONLY LAUNCHED ON A FULL SCALE IN 1973 WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S 10-YEAR HOUSING PROGRAMME BETTER HOUSING AND IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT FOR TWO MILLION
"SINCE THEN, THE PROGRAMME HAS BEEN ACTIVELY SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED THROUGHOUT THE PAST 18 YEARS.
PURSUED AND
THE
NEW IN
PEOPLE "IN 1973, THERE WERE ONLY 670,000
LIVING IN TERRITORIES, REPRESENTING ABOUT 17 PER CENT OF THE THEN POPULATION HONG KONG.
"BUT TODAY, THE NEW TERRITORIES POPULATION HAS MORE THAN
REPRESENTING SOME 42 PER CENT OF THE TREBLED TO 2.4 MILLION,
TOTAL
POPULATION, HE OBSERVED.
MR LAM SAID BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THE POPULATION NEW TERRITORIES WOULD GROW TO OVER THREE MILLION.
IN THE
UP HE POINTED OUT THAT FROM 1973
TO THE RND OF
THE 1990,
HAD GOVERNMENT
SPENT ALTOGETHER $34 BILLION ON THE
NEW TOWN INCLUDE THE COST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, AND THIS FIGURE DID NOT
OF LAND ACQUISITION AND PUBLIC HOUSING EXPENDITURE.
PLANNED AND ARE TSUEN
DEVELOPED EIGHT NEW WAN (INCLUDING KWAI
SHEUNG (INCLUDING
SHUI),
SO FAR, THE GOVERNMENT HAS
THEY TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. TSING), SHA TIN, TUEN MUN, TAI PO, FANI ING YUEN LONG, TIN SHUI WAT AND TSEUNG KWAN O.
THE BUILD-UP AND LAYOUT OF A NEW TOWN, MR LAM SAID, FOLLOWED
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
WHICH SETS
THE GUIDELINES PROVIDED IN THE OUTLINE OUT BROAD LAND USE PATTERNS AND MAJOR ROAD FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ON RECLAIMED LAND FROM FISH
ON THE LATEST PROJECTS, HE MENTIONED TIN SHUI WAI NEW TOWN, WHICH IS BUILT PONDS, WITH A PLANNED POPULATION OF 150,000.
ΤΟ THE INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS NEW TOWN WILL BE CONFINED
LAND, SOUTH OF THE NEWLY FORMED
WHILE THEE NORTHERN PART WILL BE RETAINED AS A LAND BANK FOR FURTHER INDUSTRIAL, HOUSING RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FUTURE, HE SAID.
AND
SUMMING UP, MR LAM SAID THIS MASSIVE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME REQUIRES THE COMMITMENT OF. AND CONTINUED CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT, THE PRIVATE SECTOR, THE AND THE RESIDENTS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
RURAL
ORGANISATIONS,
/MR LAM