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and challenges. There are already over one thousand joint ventures of various kinds between Eong Kong and China
interests, and both the number and size of such economic projects
re growing.
Your Excellency will have many preoccupations in
the administration of Hong Kong but I hope you, Sir, will agree with me that the first priority must be the question of the future of Hong Kong which is of such concern to us all. Our continual economic prosperity and social stability are very much dependent on the confidence we the people of Hong Kong and our overseas trading partners have in the long-term future of Hong Kong. To maintain that confidence, it is necessary that the future of Hong Kong be satisfactorily resolved as soon as possible. It is inevitable that you, Sir, as the Governor of Hong Kong will play an important role in such a resolution. In your endeavours in this
regard Your Excellency can be assured of our wholehearted
support.
The people of Hong Kong were extremely delighted and pleased upon hearing of Your Excellency's appointment. Your Excellency's long and distinguished career together with your particular knowledge of China and the Far East and your wide experience as a diplomat and administrator are clearly the most fitting credentials for the Governor of Hong Kong in the 1980's. I am certain that I am voicing the sentiments of the local community when I say "we could not have a better man for this high office at this time". We have every confidence in Your Excellency leading us successfully through the 1980's.
On our part, the Unofficial Members of the two
Councils, your other unofficial advisers and all the members of the community will no doubt give Your Excellency their fullest support. We look forward to continual and rapid progress and development, both economic and social, and to
Hong Kong.
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