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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1987

CROSS-BORDER MEETING ON INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS

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THE REASON FOR A GROUP OF SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO VISIT

IS CANTON

TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURAL ADVISER TO THE DEVELOPMENTS IN HONG KONG AND GUANGDONG, THE SPECIAL GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

RAILWAY

TERMINAL FACT

IS

KOWLOON-CANTON SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AT THE AT HUNG HOM BEFORE DEPARTING FOR CANTON, SIR DAVID SAID "THE THAT THE HONG KONG ECONOMY IS GROWING VERY LARGE, ALSO THE ECONOMY GUANGDONG IS EXPANDING VERY RAPIDLY.

OF

"HONG KONG IS IN THE PROCESS OF MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SO TOO IS GUANGDONG. AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT MATCH UP THE INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS ON BOTH SIDES,

THAT WE HE NOTED.

AN AIRPORT ABOUT

ASKED IF HE WOULD LOOK INTO THE PROPOSALS TO BUILD AT SHENZHEN DURING HIS VISIT, SIR DAVID SAID THEY WOULD TALK WHOLE RANGE OF QUESTIONS, NOT SIMPLY AIRPORTS.

AN "IT'S

EXCHANCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ROADS, FERRIES AND AIR TRANSPORT. AND WE WON'T BE TALKING ABOUT ANY PROPOSALS ON THIS OCCASION, HE SAID.

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RAILWAYS.

SPECIFIC

MEETING OF SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THE CANTON TRIP WAS THE FIRST

WE HAD SUCH KIND. "ALTHOUGH

LIAISON, VERY USEFUL

ABOUT LIAISON, NEVER HAD ANYTHING ON THIS CROSS-BORDER TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT, WE SORT OF MACRO-SCALE BEFORE, HE SAID.

ASKED IF HE WOULD HOPE TO LOOK AT ANY OF THE SITES IN SHENZHEN, SIR DAVID SAID THEY DID NOT KNOW THE PROPOSALS TO BUILD AN AIRPORT THERE.

PROPOSED AIRPORT VERY MUCH ABOUT

"THE MERE AIM OF OUR VISIT IS A FACT-FINDING VISIT AND IT'S EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION EXERCISE," HE SAID.

ALSO LEAVING ON

AN

WERE

THE

FOR

THE FIVE-DAY VISIT THIS MORNING SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, MR GRAHAM BARNES; THE COMMISSIONER

GERRY MARINE, MR

HIGGINSON; TRANSPORT, MR JAMES SO; THE DIRECTOR OF

ENGINEER/OPTIMISATION

DR STUDIES, THE GOVERNMENT

YU-LEUK; SERVICES, MRS ANNIE

CHOI

THE PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC WONG; AND THE ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER, MR CHRISTOPHER WOOD.

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