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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1988

FROM PARTICULAR

BUT IF WE ARE LOSING PEOPLE

SECTORS OF THE BOONOMY LIKE MIDDLE MANAGEMENT, WE MUST TRY TO TRAIN UP MORE PEOPLE

ALSO TRY TO 49.JAKE Thoar PlaCES. WE MUST

RUN A SOCIETY AND AN KONG DONOMY WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO STAY IN HONG

AND THOSE WHO HAVK GONE IN order to GET AN INSURANCE POLICY DO ALSO WANT TO COME BACK AGAIN.

ABOUT THE MA MIU-WAB, FROM HONG KONG ECONOMIC TIMES:

PROBLEM OF BRAIN DRAIN. AROUND 10 DAYS AGO CHINESE VICE-PREMIER WU XURQIAN HAS BLAMED THE HONG KONG MEDIA AS EXAGGERATING THE PROBLEM OF BRAIN RAIN. SIR DAVID, DO YOU REGARD HIS COMMENT AS MISUNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM OF HONG KONG AND HAVING A DISCREPANCY OF THE FEELING BETWEEN HONG KONG PEOPLE AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT?

:

MYSELF.

THINK

H.E I NEVER BLAME THE HONG KONG PRESS

THE

PEOPLE PROBLEM 18 EXACTLY AS I'VE STATED IT.

LOOK AT THIS PROBLEM FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES. AS I SAY, WHEN I AM ABROAD, I TRY TO EXPLAIN

EMIGRATION THE BACKGROUND OF IT. THE FACT THAT

FROM HONG KONG HAS MAYBE BEEN SOMETHING WHICH HAS ALWAYS GONE ON FOR THE LAST 35, 50, IT

IT WITH 100 YEARS. PROPLE LOOKING AT IT FROM PEKING MAY ALSO LOOK AT

BY THAT COMMENT

MR A CERTAIN BACKGROUND. I DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE XURQIAN MYSELF BLAMING THE HONG KONG PRESS. WHAT WE HAVE GOT TO DO TRY TO ASSESS EXACTLY WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, TRY TO GET THE FACTS RIGHT

THIN SO THAT WE ARE NOT JUST SPECULATING IN

AIR, AND THEN TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS POSSIBLE, TRY TO WORK OUT WAYS OF DEALING PROBLEM THAT THEN IS SHOWN UP BY THE FACTS.

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IS

WITH THE

SENIOR CLAUDIA MO: I THINK THE QUESTION WAS, DO YOU THINK THE

HONG KONG BY MAKING CHINESE LEADER HAS SHOWN A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THAT STATEMENT?

ON WHETHER H.B. I DON'T THINK IT'S USEFUL FOR ME TO COMMENT

:

OR A MISUNDERTANDING OF OTHER PEOPLE SHOW AN UNDERSTANDING

WHAT'S OUT MYSELF WHAT IS GOING ON IN HONG KONG. MY JOB IS TO TRY TO FIND GOING ON IN HONG KONG AND COMMENT ON IT AS I SEE IT.

POST: CAN I MOVE ON TO ANN QUON, FROM SOUTH CHINA MORNING

REFUGEES. VIETNAMESE

A HONG ANOTHER PROBLEM FACING HONG KONG,

KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SUGGESTED THAT THE PRESENT POLICY TOWARD REFUGEES, OF PUTTING ARRIVALS IN CLOSED CAMPS WHILE A WAITING RESETTLEMENT,

ELABORATE WHAT OPTIONS THE HONG NERD TO BE CHANGED. CAN YOU

WHETHER ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS GOVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING AND INCLUDE REVOKING THE RIGHT FOR REFUGEES TO LAND?

PROBLEM

=

MAY

KONG

MIGHT

+

INCREASING AND

SUMMED UP DEPARTURES THIS YEAR.

ARRIVALS ALREADY

H.R LET ME FIRST OF ALL SAY SOMETHING ON THE PROBLEM ITSELF BECAUSE IT IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY SERIOUS IN JUST THE TWO PHRASES THAT ARRIVALS ARE ARE DECREASING. WE'VE HAD CLOSE ON 800 THAT IS WAY UP ON THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. WE'VE HAD 650 DEPARTURES, WHICH IS AN INCREASE ON LAST YEAR IN THE SAME BUT STILL YOU CAN SEE THE GAP, AND SO THE POPULATION HERE IS GOING UP THE WHOLE TIME AND NOW HAS REACHED ABOUT 10,000.

I THINK IT'S PERIOD,

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