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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989

IMPORTED SKILLS, EXPERIENCE WILL BE REQUIRED

EXPERIENCE FROM HONG KONG WILL NEED TO IMPORT MORE SKILLS AND

LEFT BY EMIGRANTS AT LEAST OUTSIDE THE TERRITORY TO FILL THE GAPS

OWN RESOURCES TAKE EFFECT, UNTIL ITS EFFORTS TO DEVELOP GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

ITS

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THE

PEOPLE EMIGRATED, THE

PEOPLE. BY THEN SOME SIX MILLION

SIR DAVID SAID THAT NO MATTER HOW MANY BULK OF THE POPULATION OF HONG KONG

WOULD STILL BE HERE IN 1997 AND AFTERWARDS.

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"THESE ARE THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM WE MUST ARE HONG KONG': FUTURE,"

BUILD A FUTURE. THEY

HE SAID THAT MANY OF THEM WOULD STEP READILY INTO THE GAPS LEFT TRAINING OR EXPERIENCE BY EMIGRANTS AND OTHERS WOULD NEED MORE TIME, BEFORE THEY COULD DO SO.

"BUT, WITH AN EXPANDING AND EVER MORE SOPHISTICATED ECONOMY,

HONG KONG," HE MAY PROVE DIFFICULT TO FILL ALL THE GAPS FROM WITHIN SAID.

IT

POTENTIAL FIRST

SOURCE OF WHO ALREADY KNEW THE

THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT THE

KONG RESIDENTS THESE SKILLS WAS FORMER HONG TERRITORY.

ALREADY RECRUITING FROM THE HE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS ETHNIC CHINESE COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA, NOTING THAT THE PRIVATE SECTORS WERE DOING THE SAME.

THIS

ΤΟ WANTED

COME AND HELP IF THEY HAD THE SKILLS

AND

HONG KONG ALSO WELCOMED ANYONE WHO

TERRITORY, BUILD THE FUTURE OF EXPERIENCE NEEDED, SIR DAVID SAID.

"HONG KONG IS A CITY IN WHICH PEOPLE OF ALL PLAY A PART.

NATIONALITIES

CAN

ARISES, то FIND REPLACEMENTS "WE MUST BE READY, IF THE NEED FOR OUR HOME-GROWN TALENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET-PLACE.

"AND WE MUST ENSURE THAT OUR IMMIGRATION POLICIES ARE ENOUGH TO PERMIT THIS," HE SAID.

ESTIMATE GOVERNMENT'S

FLEXIBLE

THIS EARLIER

YEAR SIR DAVID SAID THE

VALID, BUT THAT 42,000 PEOPLE WOULD LEAVE HONG KONG IN 1989 REMAINED EMIGRATION LEVELS WERE LIKELY TO BE HIGHER IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

NOW FEEL A NEED TO

"IT IS CLEAR THAT MORE HONG KONG PEOPLE HEDGE THEIR BETS OR SEEK INSURANCE POLICIES OVERSEAS.

"AS ALWAYS, PRECISELY HOW MANY WILL LEAVE DEPENDS NOT EVENTS HERE AND IN CHINA BUT ALSO ON THE IMMIGRATION POLICIES COUNTRIES THAT PEOPLE WISH TO GO TO," THE GOVERNOR SAID.

ONLY ON OF THE

/SIR DAVID

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