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VISIT TO SOUTHERN CHINA INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE: CHIEF SECRETARY

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AND WERE BOTHEJN 1 ERESTING

FORD, SAID THIS

THE VISITS TO GUANGDONG AND GUANG VERY INSTRUCTIVE, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID (FRIDAY) EVENING.

FIVE-DAY OFFICIAL

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ON HIS RETURN FROM A "ISIT 1Ụ CHINA, SIR DAVID SAID: "EVERYWHERE WE WENT WE MOST WARMLY AND THE PROGRAMME WHICH WAS LAID ON FOR

EXCELLENT."

WERE GREETED US WAS QUITE

THAT THE INTERESTED AND KONG AND I WHAT WAS

"THE DISCUSSIONS WITH OFFICIALS SHOWED VERY CLEARLY OFFICIALS BOTH IN GUANGDONG AND IN GUANGXI ARE VERY ANXIOUS ΤΟ IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH HONG THINK THAT WE WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND MUCH HAPPENING IN THOSE AREAS.

ABOUT MORE

"IN GUANGDONG WE WERE BRIEFED VERY FULLY ON THE INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS THERE AND IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT THE ECONOMIES OF HONG KONG TO BE AND GUANGDONG, AS THEY ARE MOVING CLOSER TOGETHER, IT'S GOING TO VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE STAY IN TOUCH ON INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS, HE SAID.

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"WE HAD A VERY CLEAR BRIEFING OF WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO AND WE,

DEVELOPMENTS IN IN TURN, GAVE THEM A BRIEFING ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURB HONG KONG, HE ADDED.

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THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THE SITUATION IN GUANGXI WAS WELL ADVANCED. "BUT CLEARLY THE POTENTIAL THERE IS GREAT INDEED; ARE ALSO PUTTING A FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE IN TERMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR ROADS, THE RAILWAY, THE POWER SUPPLIES AND THEIR PORT;

VERY BIG LABOUR HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF GOOD FORMED LAND; THEY HAVE

IS SHORT SUPPLY OBVIOUSLY, AND THOSE ARE TWO THINGS THAT HONG KONG OF.'

DAVID SIR

SAID IT WAS

IMPORTANT

ΤΟ HAVE A VERY CLEAR AIRPORT AND PORT UNDERSTANDING WITH GUANGDONG THAT PLANS FOR THE

PLACE IN DEVELOPMENTS THERE WOULD BE COMPLEMENTARY TO THOSE TAKING HONG KONG AND NOT IN COMPETITION.

BCONOMIC SERVICES,

MRS ANSON CHAN, WHO THE SECRETARY FOR

THAT STRUCK ACCOMPANIED SIR DAVID ON THE VISIT SAID THE FIRST THING

PLACED ON INFRASTRUCTURAL THEM WAS THE GREAT EMPHASIS THE CHINESE

TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY ON COMMUNICATION, THAT WAS TELECOMMUNICATION.

MR GONG HAD PLANS TO IN

"ON PORT AND AIRPORT FACILITIES, THE VICE-GOVERNOR, CHI, WAS AT PAINS TO STRESS TO US THAT ALTHOUGH THEY EXPAND THEIR PORT AND AIRPORT FACILITIES, THESE WERE NOT INTENDED ANY WAY TO REPLACE OUR OWN FACILITIES OR TO ACT IN COMPETITION.

ACTING AS A

THAT

" BUT THEN HE SAW HIS FACILITIES AS VERY MUCH COMPLEMENT TO HONG KONG FACILITIES AND HE PARTICULARLY STRESSED FOR A LONG, LONG TIME TO COME THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO USE THE HONG KONG PORT, SHE SAID.

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"AS REGARDS