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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1989

FOREIGN SECRETARY TO MAKE THREE-DAY VISIT

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS,

TO HONG KONG

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND SIR GEOFFREY HOWE, WILL PAY A THREE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT EARLY NEXT MONTH TO GET FIRST-HAND INFORMATION ON THE SITUATION IN THE TERRITORY FOLLOWING THE RECENT EVENTS IN CHINA.

DEVELOPMENTS

HE WILL TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO UPDATE HIMSELF ON IN VARIOUS FIELDS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE HIS LAST VISIT TO KONG IN MAY LAST YEAR.

SIR GEOFFREY WILL ARRIVE ON SUNDAY (JULY 2).

HONG

HIS VISIT PROGRAMME BEGINNING ON MONDAY (JULY 3) WILL INCLUDE A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITH SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, OMELCO MEMBERS,

AND DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMEN

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE

TRADE BRITISH COMMISSION; AND LUNCHES WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS

WELL AS BANKERS, BUSINESSMEN AND PROFESSIONALS.

AS

MEETINGS, SIR APART FROM

GEOFFREY WILL TAKE AN EXTENSIVE

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. DURING HELICOPTER TOUR TO SEE HONG KONG'S COURSE OF THE TOUR, HE WILL VISIT TWO VIETNAMESE BOAT TO SEE HOW HONG KONG IS TACKLING THIS PROBLEM.

THE PEOPLE CENTRES

HIS PROGRAMME WILL INCLUDE A VISIT ΤΟ THE EASTERN HARBOUR CROSSING, WHICH IS TO OPEN SHORTLY.

MEETING

ON

THE AFTERNOON

SIR GEOFFREY WILL ALSO ATTEND AN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TUESDAY (

(JULY 41, AND GIVE A PRESS CONFERENCE LATER IN BEFORE RETURNING TO THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE EVENING.

HIGH PRIORITY ACCORDED TO EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: GOVERNOR

HIGH THE GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE TO ACCORD A VERY

DEMAND FOR PRIORITY TO THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO MEET THE

AND ARISE FROM CONTINUING GROWTH WELL EDUCATED PEOPLE THAT PROSPERITY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

WOULD

GROW AND SIR DAVID SAID HONG KONG WOULD CERTAINLY CONTINUE TO

EVENTS, AND THE PROSPER DESPITE RECENT TRAUMATIC

DEMAND FOR WELL MANAGERIAL EDUCATED PEOPLE TO FILL PROFESSIONAL AND

POSITIONS WOULD

ALSO CONTINUE TO INCREASE.

ADDRESSING THE PLAQUE UNVEILING CEREMONY OF THE CHUNG SZE

SAID WITH BUILDING AT THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC, SIR DAVID EDUCATION NOW GROWING AT A RATE OF FIVE PER CENT A YEAR, BY 2000 MORE THAN 14 PER CENT OF HONG KONG'S YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD TO PURSUE FIRST DEGREE COURSES AND SOME SIX PER CENT TO AT NON-DEGREE LEVEL.

YUEN

TERTIARY

THE

YEAR

BE

ABLE

TAKE

COURSES

/SIR DAVID