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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1988

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LUNAR NEW YEAR BORDER CROSSING FIGURES RELEASED

13 ΤΟ FEBRUARY

21, TO HONG KONG BY OF 129,000

PERIOD YEAR

FROM DURING THE LUNAR NEW 577,400 PEOPLE WENT TO CHINA AND 317,000 RETURNED CROSSING THE BORDER AT LOWU, AND ON FEBRUARY 21, A RECORD PASSENGERS CROSSED THE BRIDGE.

REVEALING THE ABOVE FIGURE, MR CHAN PO-KWONG, POLICE DIVISIONAL

HAVE COMMANDER, BORDER, SAID: +OUR OFFICERS

ASSISTANCE WAS ALSO CROWD CONTROL TECHNIQUES. TACTICAL UNIT, EMERGENCY UNIT AND AUXILIARY POLICE STAFF.

BORDER CROSSING

EXERCISED FULLY

SOUGHT FROM

THEIR POLICE

IS MOVEMENT

IN THE

+ON AVERAGE, THE DAILY REGION OF 50,000 AND THE HIGHEST RECORDED WAS 140,000.

THE IN TREND HAS BEEN

UPWARD AN +THERE MOVEMENT FIGURE FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS. IT ROSE FROM 1985 TO 18,800,000 IN 1986 AND 22,900,000 LAST YEAR.

TOTAL PASSENGER

17,700,000 IN

THE +IN ADDITION TO THE PASSENGER TRAFFIC, SOME 60 PER CENT OF

INTO HONG KONG ARE LIVESTOCK AND BULK OF CHINESE PRODUCTS IMPORTED BROUGHT ACROSS LO WU BRIDGE BY GOODS TRAINS.

30 PER CENT ARE BROUGHT + AND SOME VEHICLES USING MAN KAM TO BRIDGE.

ACROSS

THE BORDER BY

+THE DAILY AVERAGE OF VEHICLES PASSING THE

TO 4,000 MAN KAM TO ROAD HAS INCREASED FROM MONTHS.

SOME

CROSSING POINT AT 20 WITHIN 8,400

+ON DECEMBER 31 LAST YEAR, A RECORD HIGH OF 9,460 VEHICLES COUNTED, PROBABLY DUE TO THE FULFILMENT OF TRADING QUOTAS. +

SAID:

+THE

POPULATION INTRODUCING THE AREA, MR CHAN FRONTIER CLOSED AREA 15 ABOUT 18,000. THE MAIN CONCENTRATIONS SHA TAU KOK VILLAGE ON THE EAST COAST. THE MAJORITY ARE HAKKA AND HOKLO FISHERMEN.

WAS

OF THE ARE IN FARMERS

+THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA 13,000 PEOPLE RESIDING IN 30 SMALL VILLAGES.

IS

POPULATED SPARSELY

WITH

SOME

OF

+MANY OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION HAVE EMIGRATED AND THE BULK

REMITTANCES FROM ABROAD POPULATION ARE ELDERLY WHO RELY MAINLY UPON FOR THEIR EXISTENCE.+

ANYONE ENTERING THE

CLOSED

AREA

IS

REQUIRED

TO

POSSESS

A

CURFEW PASSES ARE REQUIRED IN

FRONTIER CLOSED AREA PERMIT. A CURFEW IS MAINTAINED WITHIN THE CLOSED

AREA BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 4 AM DAILY. CASES OF NECESSITY.

/PERMITS ARE