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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1994
TAI PO DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN ELECTED
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AS
UNOPPOSED
BOARD'S
MR CHEUNG HOK-MING AND MR LEUNG WO-PING WERE ELECTED CHAIRMAN
THE ΤΑΙ OF
PO DISTRICT BOARD
THE AND REPRESENTATIVE TO THE REGIONAL COUNCIL RESPECTIVELY AT A MEETING TODAY
(FRIDAY).
MEANWHILE, FIVE FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN OF THE DISTRICT BOARD HAVE ALSO BEEN NAMED.
ΤΑΙ PO
THEY ARE MR
AND
COMMERCE ENVIRONMENTAL
FISHERIES, OF CHAN KOON-YAU
THE AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES COMMITTEE;
OF THE MR
YICK-MING CHUNG
OF IMPROVEMENT AND WORKS COMMITTEE; MR CHENG CHEE-KWOK
LEUNG WO- THE RECREATION, SPORTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE; MR
TRAFFIC PING OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE AND MR CHAN PING OF THE AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.
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PROVISIONAL FIGURES OF EXTERNAL TRADE FOR SEPTEMBER 1994
BOTH RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS CONTINUED то SHOW SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN SEPTEMBER 1994 COMPARED WITH SEPTEMBER 1993.
DOMESTIC EXPORTS MAINTAINED A POSITIVE GROWTH. THESE ARE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES OF EXTERNAL TRADE FOR SEPTEMBER RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
BILLION
IN
THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS (COMPRISING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS) INCREASED BY $13.3 BILLION OR 14% ΤΟ $108.0 SEPTEMBER 1994.
IN
WITHIN TOTAL EXPORTS, THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS, AT $88.1 BILLION SEPTEMBER 1994, WAS $12.9 BILLION OR 17% HIGHER THAN A YEAR
EARLIER.
MILLION MEANWHILE,
ΤΟ
$113.6
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ALSO INCREASED, BY $435 OR 2.2% OVER A YEAR EARLIER TO $19.9 BILLION IN SEPTEMBER. THE VALUE OF
IMPORTS INCREASED BY $21.5 BILLION OR 23% BILLION.
THE AS
SMALLER BILLION,
WAS VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS IN SEPTEMBER 1994 THAT OF TOTAL IMPORTS, A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $5.6 EQUIVALENT TO 4.9% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED.
THAN
THIS COMPARED
EQUIVALENT WITH A SURPLUS OF $2.6 BILLION, 2.8% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, IN SEPTEMBER 1993.
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IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 1994, THE VALUE OF GREW BY 11% OVER THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
TOTAL EXPORTS
/AMONGST THIS,