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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1988

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SAYING "A LITTLE

A REMARKABLE WAS A MINOR

RETURN, IN

AND

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE TELLS STORY HE EXPLAINED HOW EVEN ONLY A DECADE AGO CHINA MARKET FOR HONG KONG GOODS, WITH MAINLY FOOD COMING THERE WAS LITTLE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE BORDER AT

AND CHINA

TODAY, HONG KONG WAS CHINA'S LARGEST SOURCE OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT, INVESTMENTS IN HONG KONG.

LO WỤ.

MARKET AND ITS LARGEST HAD HUGE AND GROWING

HONG KONG PEOPLE NOW MADE AROUND 14 MILLION VISITS CHINA, AND OVER 400,000 CHINESE VISITORS CAME ANNUALLY TO AND TRANSPORT LINKS NOW INCLUDED FERRY SERVICES, AND AIR OVER 20 CHINESE CITIES, BESIDES TRAINS.

A YEAR TO HONG KONG: SERVICES ΤΟ

ZONE, ACROSS THE AND TO HAPPENING, HR

ECONOMIC SHENZHEN "ONE NEEDS TO GO TO THE BORDER FROM HONG KONG, TO THE TOWNS OF THE PEARL RIVER DELTA, THE CITY OF CANTON ITSELF TO FULLY APPRECIATE WHAT IS SAID.

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HONG

KONG INTERESTS

DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WELL OVER RIVER DELTA AREA,

NOW WERE

A MILLION

ESTIMATED

TO BE EMPLOYING, WORKERS IN THE PEARL

KEY MUNICIPALITY "AND THE OTHER AREAS OF CHINA, INCLUDING THE

INTERESTED IN CO-OPERATION OF SHANGHAI, ARE BECOMING MORE AND WITH HONG KONG.

MORE

"AN INCREASING NUMBER

OF CHINESE CITIES

AND PROVINCES ARE CONTINUED ECONOMIC

DEVELOPING A CLOSE VESTED INTEREST IN HONG KONG's SUCCESS AND ECONOMIC AUTONOMY.

NOTING THAT THERE WERE THOSE WHO CAST DOUBT

STR DAVID

ON WHETHER CHINA SAID HE BELIEVED

WOULD ADHERE TO THE JOINT DECLARATION, THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE VALUE OF HONG KONG, AND OF THE BENEFITS THAT IT COULD AND DID OBTAIN FROM IT.

-

ITS

AND THESE I BELIEVE THAT THEY ALSO RECOGNISE THAT THIS VALUK BENEFITS WILL ONLY CONTINUR IP HONG KONG IS PERMITTED TO MAINTAIN PRESENT WAY OF LIFE AND ITS PRESENT WAY OF DOING BUSINESS,

t

ΥΠΕΥ THAT

HE SAID.

DEVISED THE AND WERE PREPARED HONG KONG SAR

"I BELIEVE THAT IT IS FOR THIS REASON IMAGINATIVE CONCEPT OF ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS' TO SET OUT IN SUCH DETAIL HOW THE SEPARATENESS OF THE WOULD BE PRESERVED FOR 50 YEARS AFTER 1997."

THAT ALTHOUGH

то

SIR DAVID ALSO REFERRED TO ENIGRATION, AND SAID THIS HAD BEEN A FACT OF LIFE IN HONG KONG FOR MANY YEARS, WHAT HAD

A PLACE IN WHICH BE DONE NOW WAS TO ENSURE THAT HONG KONG REMAINED PEOPLE WANTED TO LIVE, BOTIL TODAY AND AFTER 1997.

RCONOMY,

W

A CRUCIAL ELEMENT IN THIS WILL BE THE MAINTENANCE OF A

HE STRESSED.

STRONG

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