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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1988

IT WOULD ALSO TELL THE WORLD THAT HONG KONG WAS HEADING NEW BEGINNING UNDER THE CONCEPT OF "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS"

FOR A

WAS GOVERNMENT

CONCERNED THAT MR CHEUNG SAID THAT WHILE THE

BURDEN ON THE HOSTING AN EXPO MIGHT THRUST AN UNNECESSARY FINANCIAL

WITH DETERMINATION, FUTURE SAR GOVERNMENT, IT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT

CO-ORDINATE THE PREPARATORY WORK WITH OTHER

TO

IT WOULD BE ABLE PROJECTS.

AN EXPO WOULD

NECESSARILY NOT

PROJECTS.

HAMPER LONG-TERM

HONG KONG NEEDS AN EXPO

DEVELOPMENT

IN 1997

THE

MORE THAN ANY LEGISLATIVE

HONG KONG NEEDS AN EXPO AND NEEDS IT OTHER POINT IN OUR HISTORY, THE HON SELINA CHOW TOLD COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY).

SIX MONTHS OF THE NINE YEARS OF LEAD-UP

MRS CHOW SAID HONG KONG NEEDED AN EXPO FOR THE ACTIVITIES, AND NEEDED IT MORE FOR WHAT WOULD DO FOR ITS PEOPLE.

EXPO 97 WOULD

LEAVE

AN

INDELIBLE MARK

OF

ACHIEVEMENT

AND

STANDARD ON THE WORLD, FOR YEARS TO COME.

OF "DOOM AND

AND MORE

HAD THE

BUILDING

THAT

IT WOULD ALSO BE A GOOD WAY TO REPLACE THE MOOD GLOOM" WITH THE POSITIVE ENTERPRISE OF CREATING,

A PROJECT THROUGH IMPORTANT, AN ACT OF COMMITMENT ESTABLISHED RECOGNITION BY THE WORLD, SHE SAID.

A CLEAR POSITIVE

KONG CAN IT

KONG, WE NEED "AT THIS TIME IN THE HISTORY OF HONG SENSE OF PURPOSE, A VISION TO COMMIT OURSELVES TO SOMETHING

WHICH IN THE FUTURE, RELATE, A GOAL FROM WHICH WE CAN EMERGE PROUD AND SAY WE ACHIEVED TOGETHER FOR THE WORLD TO SEE."

A

CONCRETE

FOCUS

TO

ALL OF HONG

MRS CHOW SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD DONE NOTHING TO STUDY THE PROS AND CONS OF THE EXPO CONCEPT.

"IT DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH ITS

SHE SAID. AND EVEN THAT IT DID NOT DO VERY WELL,

CASE AGAINST

IT

H

/NOTING THAT