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Queen's Visit City Hall Lunch
Monday, May 5
Sir Y.K. Kan's Speech
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness,
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have just been saying how very pleased and honoured we in
Hong Kong are that Your Majesty has been able to visit us. Indeed, it
is for the first time that a reigning British monarch has been to Hong
Kong and, for us, this is an unique and important historical occasion also.
Our community is over 98 per cent Chinese, and yet we believe
ourselves to be truly international; a community in which people of many
nations and races live happily and harmoniously together.
Hong Kong stands at the cross-roads of the Far East and, since
its foundation, has been an important commercial centre. But today it
also enjoys a reputation as an industrial centre and our wares are to be
found in virtually every country in the world. We have no natural resources
in the normal sense of that term except perhaps that most important
resource of all, people: a people which prides itself on being hardworking,
adaptable and resilient.
The world today faces great economic problems and we in Hong Kong
are certainly not immune from them. Indeed, in many ways for us they are
more acute, for we live by our trade: we have to import before we can
export. But we are a proud people and we ask charity from nobody.
do ask -- what we ask of Britain and of her partners, and the other great
countries of the world
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is that we should not be discriminated against, that
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