XN000022-1990-04-19 — Page 5

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1990

"WE

PAST 40 THE STRONGER

HAVE FACED SOME VERY DIFFICULT PROBLEMS OVER THE YEARS AND HAVE ALWAYS MANAGED TO PULL THROUGH AND EMERGE FOR IT, HE SAID.

I

"WE ARE ALSO EXPANDING EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL

HE ADDED. INCREASE THE OUTPUT OF LOCAL TALENT,

[I.

SIR DAVID SAID ANOTHER WAY OF DEALING WITH THE MAKE IT UNNECESSARY FOR PEOPLE TO LEAVE.

TO

TRAINING TO

PROBLEM WAS ΤΟ

PLANS

IN THE

IN THE UNITED FAMILIES WITHOUT UNITED KINGDOM

WITH THIS IN MIND, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAD ANNOUNCED GRANT BRITISH CITIZENSHIP, WITH THE RIGHT OF ABODE

AND THEIR KINGDOM, TO 50,000 HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS THEIR HAVING TO LEAVE HONG KONG AND SETTLE FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME.

"THIS SHOULD HELP RETAIN IN HONG KONG THOSE LIKELY TO WANT, AND BE ABLE, TO EMIGRATE.

WHO

ARE MOST

то FOUR OTHER

OTHERWISE GO TO

"THIS PACKAGE OF 50,000 KEY PEOPLE REPRESENTS THREE YEARS

KEY EMIGRATION OF

PEOPLE WHO WOULD PLACES, HE SAID.

ALREADY

THAT THE SCHEME WAS SIR DAVID DISAGREED WITH THE SAYING

DIVISIONS IN THE WERE NOTING DIVISIVE,

THAT THERE COMMUNITY BETWEEN THE FEW WHO HAD THE ABILITY TO EMIGRATE AND THE MANY WHO DID NOT.

"THIS

WOULD WHO

HAVE SCHEME SIMPLY ENABLES SOME OF THOSE

A GROWING FEELING LEFT ANYWAY TO STAY IN HONG KONG AND THERE IS

STABILISE AMONGST MANY WHO CANNOT LEAVE THAT ANY MEASURE WHICH HELPS

COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, HE HONG KONG'S FUTURE MUST BE GOOD FOR THE SAID.

++

TO MAKE "BUT OUR OVERALL, AND LONG TERM, STRATEGY IS TO SEEK

ΤΟ STAY, SIR DAVID HONG KONG A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WILL WANT STRESSED.

MINDFUL FOREIGN FIRMS

THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WAS OF THE NEED TO KEEP HONG KONG AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE FOR TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN THE TERRITORY.

"TO THIS END, WE

"T

ARE GIVING SERIOUS LENGTHENING

VISAS SO AS TO REDUCE EMPLOYMENT RENEWALS, HE SAID.

TO CONSIDERATION THE INCONVENIENCE OF

OF

EDUCATION

FOR

THE

FOR

COMMUNITY

"WE ALSO RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE FAMILIES OF FOREIGN BUSINESSMEN AND ARE HAPPY TO GRANT FREE LAND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS, AND I WOULD COMPLIMENT THE JAPANESE IN HONG KONG ON THE EXAMPLE THEY HAVE SET FOR OTHER THIS FIELD, HE ADDED.

COMMUNITIES IN

/SIR DAVID