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Question: Mr Patten talked about labour importation. I think his proposals are good because that would help our economy and help with trade and industry development. If there are jobs that we can't find locals for, I support the idea of importing labour. But there is another point on civil service, how are you going to pass information on civil servants to Chinese side. On this issue Mr Governor, could you perhaps propose to the Chinese side that there could be certain points set up in Hong Kong, so that civil servants could put their names down and say that they want to stay beyond 1997. I think that would be a better idea, because it seems that at the moment there are ideas or talks about arranging transition for the civil service, but if there could be a certain department that we could report to like the NCNA or some trade unions to register our wish to stay beyond 1997, that would save some administrative costs and also manpower. Would that be better?
Governor: Madam, I don't think you have to take that sort of initiative, because the assumption is, it's the assumption of the Hong Kong Government and I think it is the assumption of Chinese officials as well that everybody possible, particularly leaving aside those who are mentioned in the Basic Law, the very senior people who have to be appointed formally from Peking, that everybody possible will stay through 1997 and I think that to do them credit, Chinese officials like Vice Premier Qian Qichen have gone out of their way to praise the quality of the Hong Kong civil servants and to say how they hope that the civil service will stay through the transition which is what I very much hope as well. What we have been discussing with the Chinese side is the arrangements for enabling some of our senior officials to get to know those they'll be working with in the PRC bureaucracy and to let their opposite numbers get to know them and assess them as future colleagues within one country, albeit one in which Hong Kong has a high degree of autonomy. There were some proposals put to us, and I don't think it is any secret which we weren't too keen on earlier in the year, but the ones that we have now agreed to move forward on, are I think sensible. They are ones that we put forward and I hope that they will lead to a greater understanding and to giving comfort to civil servants like you that your future is secure, and that the sort of way you work, the things you believe in, the meritocratic way of running our civil service that all those things are going to continue. Just briefly on labour importation, we shouldn't forget that we go on creating jobs extremely successfully in Hong Kong. Over the last three years we have actually created about two hundred and seventy thousand additional jobs. The problem we've got is that there have been over three hundred thousand people added to the workforce. Some of those are returned emigrants from elsewhere. Some of those are recent immigrants from China, some are the result of demographic factors, more young people coming on to the job market and a few of those, but very much a minority are imported labour.