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THURSDAY, MAY 3,

MAY 3, 1990

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MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME PRESENTS NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

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BUILD

NEW GOVERNMENT'S MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMME TO

WILL PRESENT NEW CHALLENGE AND REMODEL THE PORT AIRPORT AND TO

BOTH THE PRIVATE AND OPPORTUNITIES TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN PUBLIC SECTORS, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

HE WAS

'THE AT

OPENING

ABERDEEN

CEREMONY OF THE SPEAKING TRAINING CENTRE OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING AUTHORITY.

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000

SECTOR SIR DAVID SAID TO MEET THE MANPOWER NEEDS OF THE PUBLIC

REQUIRED

THE BY

MID-1990S, ALONE, AT LEAST 15,

WERE EMPLOYED IN FULL-TIME NOTING THAT TODAY, SOME

THE BUILDING AND CIVIL (MEANING OTHER THAN ENGINEERING SECTOR OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

WOULD MORE

95,000 PEOPLE CASUAL) JOBS

BE

IN

THE OPENING

THE OF

HE

SAID

ABERDEEN

TRAINING CONSTRUCTION

WHICH WAS THE THIRD TRAINING CENTRE RUN BY THE TRAINING AUTHORITY, HAD COME AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME.

"WE NOW HAVE THE ADDITIONAL INDUSTRY SO CLEARLY NEEDS IF IT IS CHALLENGES OF THE 1990s."

TRAINING

CENTRE, INDUSTRY

THE

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THE

WHICH FACILITIES TO EXPAND AND FACE UP

INDUSTRY'S DEMANDS PLACED THE PACE OF

THE QUALITY OF THE SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT LABOUR FORCE WAS CRUCIAL IF HONG KONG WAS TO MEET THE

DEVELOPMENT TERRITORY BY ON THE

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE.

CONTINUED

AND

AND ABOVE ALL GREATER

"IMPROVEMENTS IN TECHNIQUE AND SKILL, AWARENESS OF AND ATTENTION TO SAFETY, ARE VITAL,

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HE SAID.

THAT HONG

SIR DAVID SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH THE INDUSTRY TO ENSURE THE PRODUCTION OF THE TRAINED WORKFORCE KONG NEEDED.

"AS PART OF THIS CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT THE GOVERNMENT IS FOR THE AUTHORITY'S TO PROMOTE THE RECRUITMENT OF TRAINEES THROUGH A PROGRAMME OF REGULAR PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS.

HELPING CENTRES

THOSE WHO "THE GOVERNMENT CAN ALSO ASSIST IN FINDING JOBS FOR

HAS PROVIDED LAND HAVE COMPLETED THEIR TRAINING, AND THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALL THREE PERMANENT TRAINING CENTRES.

TRAINING

CENTRE

IS THEREFORE A "THIS NEW CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE AUTHORITY AND THE GOVERNMENT, CONCLUDED.

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REAL SYMBOL OF THE GOVERNOR

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