CO129-615-6 Royal Institute of International Affairs- paper on future of Hong Kong 30-12-1947 - 8-1-1948 — Page 9

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proper should not produce a medical and health service

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as efficient and (what is even more important) ge

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conscientious as the local produse in liong Kong has

unquestionably proved itself.

In the other technical departments local

recruitment, except for comparatively subordinate

posts, was less advanced. Hong Kong has been

described as the engineer's paradise, and for the

construction and maintenance of roads and reclamations

and waterworks and harbour works the very highest

qualifications were necessary however high the cost.

The Hong Kong University produced a steady flow of

graduates from the engineering faculty (vivil,

Mechanical and Electrical) with good academic

qualifications, but, apart from a number of land

surveyors, the Public Works Department employed

almost none of these. If a prognostication is

allowable, the success or failure of China's

modernization may well depend largely upon her

ability to produce engineers who can not only

answer examination papers but who have undertaken

the practical training and moreover appreciated

the professional prestige that go with the English

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