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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1990

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PAST SUCCESS PROVIDES GOOD FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE: CS

THE SPIRIT OF

CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS, THE ESSENTIALLY PRACTICAL AND PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO PROBLEMS, AND THE IRREPRESSIBLE DETERMINATION TO GET THINGS DONE ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR COMMUNITY'S PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROVIDE THE SUREST GUARANTEES OF OUR FUTURE SUCCESS, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

SIR

OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING OF THE "HONG KONG INTO THE 90's" EXHIBITION, BEING HELD AT THE HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, SIR DAVID SAID THE EXHIBITION WAS APTLY TITLED AS HONG KONG STOOD AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DECADE THAT SEEMED CERTAIN TO BE EXHILARATING AND CHALLENGING AS ANY IN ITS HISTORY. AND A POSITIVE APPROACH WAS JUST WHAT WAS REQUIRED.

POINTING OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS PLEASED TO BE TAKING PART WITH THE GALAXY OF PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS, SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS ESPECIALLY SATISFYING WHEN, IN THE FACE

OF NEW CHALLENGES, THE PRIVATE SECTOR RESPONDED BY STEPPING FORWARD ENTHUSIASTICALLY, AS IT HAD DONE TODAY, WITH IMAGINATION AND INITIATIVE.

"WE IN HONG KONG HAVE BECOME ALMOST BLASE ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS WHICH OTHER PEOPLE FIND DIFFICULT RVEN TO CONCEIVE

OF. BUT THE GLIMPSE OF WHAT LIES AHEAD, WHICH THIS EXHIBITION PROVIDES, 18 QUITE ASTOUNDING.

"OF COURSE THERE WILL BE HAZARDS, BUT WE WILL FACE THEM DOWN, AS WE HAVE DONE OTHERS BEFORE. POR WHAT OTHER PEOPLE CALL DIFFICULTIES, WE HAVE THE HAPPY KNACK OF TURNING INTO OPPORTUNITIES.

"AND, AS TODAY'S EXHIBITION SO CLEARLY OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE TO BE SEIZED, HE SAID.

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SIR DAVID SAID IMAGINATION AND INITIATIVE, THE QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP, WERE WHAT THE EXHIBITION WAS ALL ABOUT, AND ON SHOW WAS THE COLLECTIVE VISION OF HONG KONG INCORPORATED FOR THE FUTURE.

"THERE ARE EXCITING EXHIBITS OVER THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES EMBRACING FINANCIAL SERVICES, HI-TECH INDUSTRIES, TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TOURISM AND MANY OTHERS,

"THERE ARE PLANS,

BOTH FOR PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS, FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES; INITIATIVES WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE WHOLE QUALITY OF LIFE HERE IN HONG KONG," HE ADDED.

SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS QUITE SURE THAT HONG KONG NOT ONLY HAD

THE VISION, IT HAD BOTH THE RESOURCES AND THE RESOURCEFULNESS то

MAKE THAT VISION A REALITY.

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