Question: Can you foreshadow anything?
Governor: Well, let me say a word or two about that. It won't be the same as all my previous policy addresses, so I think that you should be looking for something different. And why won't it be the same? Not because government is closing down for the winter and the spring of 1997. We have still got a lot of work to do, completing, for example, the five-year programme that I put in hand in the autumn of 1992. But it will be different because this is my last year as Governor, my last year responsible for the administration of Hong Kong, and I obviously will look forward to hearing my successor, the Chief Executive (Designate)'s views on the development of policy in Hong Kong after 1997.
It wouldn't be right for me to say exactly what the Government is going to do in the next few years but I will want to sketch out in broad terms what I think our objectives should be. I will want to set out how we have performed over the last few years and what still remains to be done in order to complete our agenda. And, of course, I will want to speak about the values which have made Hong Kong so successful and which will, I hope, keep Hong Kong just as successful, more successful, in the future. It will be a shorter speech than last year's but I hope that you won't find it uninteresting. Thank you very much.
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Rationalisation of container terminal berths endorsed
The Joint Liaison Group today's endorsement of the agreement reached by the commercial parties to Container Terminal 9 (CT9) on the way forward on rationalisation of berths at the Kwai Chung port was welcomed by the Financial Secretary, Mr Donald Tsang.
He said the Government's objectives to enlarge the capacity if the container port and to introduce more competition had been achieved.
"This agreement will enhance the capacity of the terminal, while reducing the negative environmental impact.
"It will also introduce a new major operator into our container port in the interest of competition," he said, referring to Asia Container Terminals (ACT) Limited, previously known as Tsing Yi Consortium Ltd.