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Secondly, the other issue you mentioned is also an extremely important one. We've got about 150 new immigrants coming in legally from China every day. That's about 55,000 or so every year and of course that creates some social difficulties, some problems in the housing and educational area. We have been doing a couple of things which I hope are important and useful. First of all, we've been trying to bring together the departments whose various responsibilities touch on this issue, to have them working closer together and one of the things that they've done is to produce quite a useful booklet for new immigrants telling them about Hong Kong and telling them how they can get particular services, how they can get in touch with the local employment services and so on.
Secondly, we've been also helping in the classroom by providing help with remedial teaching for the children of immigrant families who may have bad or inadequate Cantonese as well as English and I think that's a hurdle that we need to help people over. It's a very substantial social question this and it's not going to finish in 1997. So we've got to give it a lot of priority and I don't think any of us can kid ourselves that it's going to be an inexpensive problem to deal with but at the end of the day I hope that we'll ensure that the new immigrants who come to Hong Kong are able to play as creative a role in the next development of Hong Kong as previous waves of immigrants have played in the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Question (in Chinese): I was employed with the CLP previously and in order to cut expenses I was made redundant and I am now unemployed. Now you are the Governor of Hong Kong and the unemployment situation has been with us for quite some time and the problem has not been resolved. The Administration has not given any assistance to those who are unemployed and we are actually suffering great hardship. What can you do for them, Mr Governor?
Governor: If you, Mr Lee, leave your number with the switchboard, I will get somebody from the local employment service of the Labour Department to get in touch with you. They do provide free assistance and counselling to job-seekers. They have placed, I think, more than 12,000 people in jobs in the first half of this year, so they do a pretty good job. We will see if we can help through either the local employment service as a whole, through our job-matching programme which seeks to put together those looking for jobs with registered vacancies. I do want to see our Labour Department continuing to help nudge the unemployment rate down. It has fallen from 3.6 per cent last November to about 2.8 per cent today but I do recognise that for anybody who is actually unemployed the figure is 100 per cent, so we want to help you as much as we can.
Question: Mr Patten, I listened to part of your report yesterday and what the Hong Kong Government, the Hong Kong people, have accomplished in recent years is truly phenomenal and must be the envy of many a leader throughout the world. The question which I am asked and which I am now asking you is, how has it been accomplished? Because we've got reserves we don't run on a deficit, 65 per cent of the population don't pay taxes but we seem to have accomplished an awful lot.