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TALKS IN CHINA ENCOURAGING

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988

LORD GLENARTHUR

WITH

HONG

AND COMMONWEALTH

OFFICE

GLENARTHUR,

SAID

TODAY

THE MINISTER OF STATE AT THE FOREIGN

LORD KONG, FOR RESPONSIBILITY

ENCOURAGING" TALKS (WEDNESDAY) HE HAD HAD SOME "INTERESTING AND VERY

VICE FOREIGN MINISTER DURING WITH THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER AND HIS FIRST VISIT TO CHINA.

SPEAKING

ΤΟ REPORTERS AFTER ARRIVING

FROM

EXECUTIVE

CANTON,

LORD

COUNCIL AND

GLENARTHUR SAID HE WOULD HAVE A BUSY TWO AND A HALF DAYS IN HONG KONG,

BE MEETING THE WHICH HE WOULD DURING LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

LORD GLENARTHUR WAS GREETED AT THE

AIRPORT BY THE GOVERNOR, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID SIR DAVID WILSON, AND LADY WILSON;

THE FORD; THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SIR S.Y. CHUNG;

LYDIA DUNN, AND THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MISS SENIOR BRITISH TRADE COMMISSIONER, MR REG HOLLOWAY.

LORD GLENARTHUR VISITS TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

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THE

FOREIGN AND

COMMONWEALTH

OFFICE

WITH ΤΑΙ PO ABOUT THE

MINISTER GLENARTHUR, VISITED THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HONG KONG, LORD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE THIS (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON TO LEARN MORE PROGRESS AND TECHNICAL ADVANCES MADE IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR.

LORD AND LADY GLENARTHUR WERE ACCOMPANIED BY THE SECRETARY

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR HAMISH MACLEOD, AND AN INDUSTRY, MR MIKE ARNOLD.

FOR OF

KONG

DURING A TOUR AROUND THE ESTATE, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HONG INDUSTRIAL ESTATES CORPORATION, MR STEPHEN CHEONG, BRIEFED THEM ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL ESTATES,

AIMS TO BROADEN HONG KONG'S

MR CHEONG SAID THE CORPORATION INDUSTRIAL BASE AND TO UPGRADE THE LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY,

"IT PROVIDES SITES AND STANDARD

NATURE OF

FACTORIES FOR INDUSTRIALISTS ARK MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, THEIR WHO, BECAUSE OF THE

KONG, HE UNABLE TO FIND SUITABLE FACTORY PREMISES ELSEWHERE IN HONG ADDED.

/A PROPOSAL .............