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LIU: WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AHEAD THOUGH?

THAT

MOVING

GOVERNOR: IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY AT THE MOMENT. I EXPECT THERE WILL BE PEOPLE FROM THE CIVIL SERVICR WHO WILL EMIGRATE. I MEAN THE CIVIL SERVICE IS PART OF SOCIETY AND THERE WILL BE PEOPLE

PEOPLE MOVING FROM THE FROM THE CIVIL SERVICE, JUST LIKE THERE ARE PRIVATE SECTOR. AT THE MOMENT IT DOESN'T LOCK AS IF IT IS GOING TO A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

PE

SERVICE YOUR SECOND QUESTION WAS ON LOCALISATION. IN THE CIVIL

LONG TIME, AND BEFORE WE HAVE BEEN LOCALISING, AS YOU KNOW, FOR

BECAUSE THE TOP JOBS 1997 WE HAVE GOT TO LOCALISE ALL THE TOP JOBS

WILL DO THAT. BUT THERE MUST BE HELD BY LOCAL PEOPLE, SO WE

1997, STILL BE A ROLE FOR EXPATRIATES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE UP TO WELL BEYOND 1997 BECAUSE THAT 15 PROVIDED FOR IN THE AGREEMENT ON FUTURE.

WILL

AND

THE

ONE,

BECAUSE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR I SUSPECT THAT TWO THINGS:

AND, TWO, BECAUSE SOME OF THE THE ECONOMY IS GROWING SO FAST,

ΤΟ ОБ TALENTED WHITE COLLAR WORKERS ARE LEAVING, THAT THERE IS GOING

MIGHT HAVE A GREATER ROLE FOR EXPATRIATES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAN SEEMED LIKELY, LET'S SAY, FIVE YEARS AGO.

BALE: LET'S FOLLOW UP THIS BUSINESS OF EMIGRATION. YOU ADMITTED EARLIER THIS YEAR THAT FORTY TO FIFTY LEAVE HONG KONG THIS YEAR, SOME

PEOPLE

THEY

WILL ESTIMATES

THAT

THOUSAND PEOPLE

THE SUGGEST TRUE, ISN'T

IT,

AND OVERSEAS,

HAD THE MONEY OR THE FAMILY

EVEN MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN THAT. BUT IT IS MILLIONS MORE WOULD GO IF ONLY

COUNTRY CONNECTIONS TO GAIN THEM ENTRY TO ANOTHER

So

THAT THE BRAIN

EMIGRATION, CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL, 19

MORE GENERAL BASICALLY JUST A SYMPTOM OF A MUCH

SICKNESS THAT THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG DO NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE,

DRAIN OR

ALL GOVERNOR: I WOULDN'T PUT IT LIKE THAT MYSELF, AND FIRST OF

WOULD BR I WOULDN'T SAY I ADMITTED THAT THERE

45,000 OR FORTY TO

TO ATI EMPT

GET THE FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND. WHAT THAT WAS WAS AN

BEST ATTEMPT то TRY то POSSIBLE ESTIMATE WE COULD, SO IT WAS A POSITIVE

RUMOUR BUT WE PIN DOWN THE FIGURES SO WE WEREN'T DEALING WITH

WERE

DEALING WITH HARD FACT.

THAN

ABOUT * ABOUT IT. JUST AS

GOING

THERE PROBABLY ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO THINK ABOUT ACTUALLY GO. IT IS THE SORT OF THING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK AND PARTICULARLY FROM CERTAIN SECTORS OF SOCIETY THEY TALK MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT IT WILL NEVER ACTUALLY GO,

ABOUT, SAY IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES PEOPLE TALK

FROM BRITAIN THERE THE 1950'S USED TO BE A LOT OF TALK ABOUT EMIGRATING TO AUSTRALIA IN AND 1960'S. MOST WHO TALKED DIDN'T ACTUALLY GO.

AND IT WILL ALWAYS BF TRUE IN HONG KONG THAT THE VAST MAJORITY ARE GOING TO OF PEOPLE WON'T GO, SO WE MUST THINK OF THE PEOPLF WHO

GO BIT CAN'T, OR MANY, STAY HERE; PEOPLE WHO EITHER WOULD LIKE TO

TO HONG KONG, AND MANY PEOPLE, THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED WEMSKIVES WANT TO WORK TO ENSURE THAT HONG KOY DOES HAVE. A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE.

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