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"Of all countries, only China has been sufficiently imaginative as to allow for a fundamentally and jurisprudentially different system to function in a SAR within a self-contained system fully quarantined from that which operates in the rest of the country.
Earlier in his speech, Mr Fung also said in view of the extensive economic and commercial links between Hong Kong and China, he expected to see a growing system of law to regulate many aspects of cross-border commercial and business life.
"Legal exchanges between the Hong Kong SAR and the rest of China will become more frequent and complex such that it is crucial to put in place well before 1997, if all possible, mechanisms and procedures for mutual assistance between the two legal systems," he said.
End/Thursday, July 27, 1995
July issue of HK Monthly Digest of Statistics on sale
A feature article entitled "Payroll Statistics in Selected Industries, 1990-1994" is published in the July 1995 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics.
This feature article presents statistics on average labour earnings, in both nominal and real terms, for persons engaged in different economic sectors over the past five years.
Detailed analyses of the movements of annual average payroll per person engaged in selected industries within the manufacturing sector and the wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels sector are also included. The July 1995 issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics is already on sale at $50 a copy.
It contains all information about Hong Kong's latest situation regarding economic growth, the labour market, inflation and many other social and economic issues that have important impact on business and everyday life.
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