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MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1987

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POPULATION OF 6.1M IN 1996: REPORT

THE POPULATION OF HONG KONG IS EXPECTED TO GROW FROM 5.5 MILLION IN 1986 TO SOME 6.1 MILLION IN 1996, AND ΤΟ 6.5 MILLION IN 2001.

THE AGE STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION IS EXPECTED ΤΟ CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY. THE MEDIAN AGE OF THE POPULATION IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE FROM 29 IN 1986 TO 40 BY 2006.

THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION UNDER 15 YEARS OF AGE IS EXPECTED TO FALL FROM 23 PER CENT IN 1986 TO 17 PER CENT IN 2006, WHILE THE PROPORTION AGED 65 AND OVER IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE FROM EIGHT PER CENT TO 12 PER CENT.

64 YEARS)

THE PROPORTION IN THE WORKING AGE (THOSE AGED 15 TO IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE SLIGHTLY FROM 69 PER CENT TO 71 PER CENT.

THIS AND OTHER INFORMATION IS PUBLISHED IN A REPORT ENTITLED "HONG KONG POPULATION: A 20-YEAR PROJECTION (1986 VERSION)". THE REPORT CONTAINS THE RESULTS OF POPULATION PROJECTIONS MADE BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT IN 1987, ON THE BASIS OF DATA COLLECTED IN THE 1986 BY-CENSUS.

APART FROM PRESENTING THE PROJECTED POPULATION BY SEX AND QUINQUENNIAL AGE FOR THE 20 YEARS FROM 1982, IT ALSO DESCRIBES THE FERTILITY, MORTALITY AND MIGRATION TRENDS IN THE 1970'S AND THE EARLY 1980'S AND THE ASSUMPTIONS ON WHICH THE PROJECTIONS ARE BASED.

COPIES OF THE REPORT MAY NOW BE PURCHASED FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE BUILDING, HONG KONG.

ANNUAL BORDER REVIEW MEETING

OFFICIALS FROM GUANGDONG PROVINCE LED BY MR HUANG QUN, DIRECTOR OF THE PROVINCIAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICE, ARE VISITING HONG KONG FROM DECEMBER 6 TO 11 TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF BORDER LIAISON ARRANGEMENTS. THEY ARE HERE AT THE INVITATION OF THE POLITICAL ADVISER, MR DICK CLIFT.

THE BORDER LIAISON SYSTEM PROVIDES FOR EXCHANGES OF INFORMATION AND CONTROL AT THE BORDER BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT AND CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR GUANGDONG COUNTERPARTS.

SINCE THEN REVIEWS HAVE

THE SYSTEM WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1981. BEEN HELD ALTERNATELY IN HONG KONG AND GUANGDONG. THE LAST TOOK PLACE IN HAINAN IN DECEMBER 1986.

WHILE HERE THE GUANGDONG DELEGATION WILL ALSO VISIT PLACES OF

INTEREST.

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