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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1990

THE

ESTIMATING THE NORMAL ACCIDENTAL DEATH RISK AT JUST OVER ONE IN 10,000 AND THE NORMAL FATAL CANCER RISK AT JUST OVER ONE IN 1,000, REPORT NOTES :

**COMPARING THESE

WITH THOSE INDIVIDUAL RISK FIGURES

QUOTED RISK IS EARLIER INDICATES THE REACTOR ACCIDENT-RELATED EARLY DEATH

FACTOR OF ABOUT LOWER THAN THE NORMAL ACCIDENTAL DEATH RISK BY A

IS 60,000; EQUALLY, THE REACTOR ACCIDENT-RELATED CANCER FATALITY RISK LESS THAN THE NORMAL CANCER RISK BY ABOUT 20,000."

PER COPY AT THE COPIES OF THE REPORT ARE ON SALE AT $66

GROUND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GENERAL POST OFFICE BUILDING, FLOOR, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL.

BE COPIES OF THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE MAY

CENTRE AND OBTAINED FREE OF CHARGE FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS FROM

BATTERY THE

MISSION GIS MARKETING OFFICE AT FRENCH PATH, CENTRAL.

BUILDING,

HK'S ECONOMIC POLICIES BRING ABOUT CONCRETE ACHIEVEMENTS

AND

H

HONG KONG'S "FREE, OPEN

PRUDENT' ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE ABOUT FAVOURABLE TO HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HAVE BROUGHT

MR JOHN CONCRETE ACHIEVEMENTS, THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, CHAN, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

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A SUCCESSFUL WAS IMPLEMENTED

SPEAKING AT A SEMINAR ON "HONG KONG/GUANGDONG BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP" IN SHENZHEN, MR CHAN SAID WHAT IN HONG KONG WAS A FREE-ENTERPRISE SYSTEM DIRECTED BY MARKET FORCES.

IS TO "THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT

PROVIDE A STABLE JNDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ΤΟ OPERATE AND APPROPRIATE SYSTEM TO ENABLE

HE SAID. EFFECTIVELY AND SMOOTHLY WITH MINIMUM INTERVENTION,

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MR CHAN SAID

KONG'S HONG

ECONOMIC

POLICY HAD ONCE

BEEN

DESCRIBED AS "LAISSEZ-FAIRE", WHICH WAS, IN FACT, GREATLY MISLEADING.

AND INDIFFERENT, BUT

THE

HE SAID LAISSEZ-FAIRE WAS NEGATIVE NON-INTERVENTION POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT WAS POSITIVE.

"IN FACT, NON-INTERVENTION IS ONLY AND IS NOT ABSOLUTE AND INVARIABLE,

A BROAD POLICY DIRECTION

THE GOVERNMENT

INDUSTRIAL PROMOTE OVERALL

WOULD AND

"WHEN THERE ARE ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL NEEDS, MONITOR OR INTERVENE

OPERATION OF THE IN THE COMMERCIAL

AN

то APPROPRIATE MANNER

DIFFERENT SECTORS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH OR TO BALANCE THE INTERESTS OF

IN SECTORS

THE COMMUNITY," HE SAID.

/MR CHAN