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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1990

REED

SAID:

DR

"THIS CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN THE WHICH BRINGS THE BEST AVAILABLE KONG."

IS THEREFORE CONTRACT

PIONEERING A GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR WASTE MANAGEMENT SKILLS INTO HONG

PRIVATE HE ADDED THAT THIS CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND

OF PART

THE WASTE DISPOSAL STRATEGY SECTORS WOULD BE AN INTEGRAL THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS DEVELOPING.

4TH QUARTER INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION RELEASED

THE INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION FOR THE 1989, AT 129, WAS 4 POINTS OR 3.0 PER CENT LOWER

ACCORDING

FOURTH QUARTER OF THAN THAT FOR THE TODAY RELEASED

TO STATISTICS OF 1988, FOURTH QUARTER (SATURDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

RATES OF 3.8 PER QUARTER

THIS COMPARES WITH THE YEAR-ON-YEAR GROWTH CENT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989, 1.7 PER CENT IN THE SECOND AND O PER CENT IN THE THIRD QUARTER. THE AVERAGE GROWTH RATE FOR OVER 1988 WAS 0.8 PER CENT.

COMPARED WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989, AND

SEASONAL

THE FACTORS, OF INFLUENCE

THE POSSIBLE DECREASE OF 5 POINTS OR 3.7 PER CENT.

SHOWING THE

LARGEST

1989

BEARING IN MIND INDEX SHOWED A

IN

PERCENTAGE INCREASES INDUSTRIES

OVER THE SAME QUARTER OF PRODUCTION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989

PER

BEVERAGES CENT);

PER (+13.6

CENT); 1988 WERE: TOBACCO (+17.6

AND PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (+9.3 PER CENT); (+8.2 PER CENT).

REPORTED

DECREASES IN ON THE OTHER HAND, SOMB INDUSTRIES

WERE: PRODUCTION COMPARED WITH THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988. AMONG THEM

RUBBER, PLASTIC AND WOODEN FOOTWEAR (EXCEPT LEATHER PRODUCTS AND

PRODUCTS, EXCEPT METAL FABRICATED FOOTWEAR) (-19.7 PER CENT);

AND MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT (-14.8 PER CENT); WOOD AND CORK PRODUCTS,

PER CENT); FURNITURE AND FIXTURES (EXCEPT PRIMARILY OF METAL) (-13.3

PER (-11.2 RUBBER PRODUCTS (-12.5 PER CENT); CENT).

AND

PLASTIC

PRODUCTS

FOURTH

TRANSPORT

QUARTER OF COMPARING THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN THE

QUARTER, PRECEDING

THE FOLLOWING INDUSTRIES 1989 WITH THAT IN THE REPORTED INCREASES IN PRODUCTION: TOBACCO (+12.6 PER CENT); EQUIPMENT (+10.3 PER CENT); FOOD (+2.4 PER CENT); AND RUBBER (+1.9 PER CENT).

PRODUCTS

/AT THE