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Thursday, May 17, 1973

CHINESE WATER EXPERTS VISIT HONG KONG

Six senior officials of the Kwangtung Water Authority will arrive

in Hong Kong on Monday (May 21) for a seven-day visit as guests of the Director of Public Works, Mr. James Robson, who invited them here on behalf of the Hong Kong Government.

Mr. Robson said today that the visit was in reciprocation for

his week's stay in Canton in November last year.

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"I am delighted that the have now been made final", he

"We're looking forward to showing these visiting colleagues some of our main installations and projects and to a further exchange of technical information.""

The six men will be led by Mr. Wang Yung, the Director of the East River-Shunchun Water Supply Project Administration Bureau of Kwangtung

Province.

The other five members of the party are: Mr. TANG Te-chun, Principal Water Engineer of the Bureau of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, Kwangtung Province; Mr. MA En-yao, Engineer of the same Bureau; Mr. BI Te-luang, Engineer of the East River-Shumchun Water Supply Project Administration Bureau; Mr. YUAN Liu, Engineer of the East River-Shumchun Bureau; and Mr. CHANG Ching-ping, Secretary and Interpreter.

The programme of the visit will include tours of the Plover Cove Reservoir, the desalter site at Luk On Pai and other Waterworks undertakingo.

The group will also pay visits to other engineering projects and provision has been made to enable them to meet leading figures in the community in the course of private entertainment during the social side of their visit.

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