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MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1991

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"THE MAJOR INVESTMENTS IN TRANSPORT LINKS PUT HONG KONG IN CLOSER AND MORE DIRECT CONTACT WITH GUANGDONG, WHERE SOME THREE MILLION CHINESE WORKERS ARE HELPING HONG KONG MANUFACTURERS WITH OUTWARD PROCESSING ACTIVITIES ALONG THE PEARL RIVER DELTA.

"THIS MUST BE CONDUCIVE ΤΟ THE FURTHER STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CHINA, HE SAID.

OF

TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, MR LAM NOTED THAT IT WAS FIRST STARTED IN THE MID-1960's.

TO SYNCHRONIZE AIMED AT PROVIDING

PEOPLE.

IT WAS ONLY LAUNCHED ON A FULL SCALE IN 1973 WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S 10-YEAR HOUSING PROGRAMME BETTER HOUSING AND IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT FOR TWO MILLION

"SINCE THEN, THE PROGRAMME HAS BEEN ACTIVELY SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED THROUGHOUT THE PAST 18 YEARS.

PURSUED AND

THE

NEW IN

PEOPLE "IN 1973, THERE WERE ONLY 670,000

LIVING IN TERRITORIES, REPRESENTING ABOUT 17 PER CENT OF THE THEN POPULATION HONG KONG.

"BUT TODAY, THE NEW TERRITORIES POPULATION HAS MORE THAN

REPRESENTING SOME 42 PER CENT OF THE TREBLED TO 2.4 MILLION,

TOTAL

POPULATION, HE OBSERVED.

MR LAM SAID BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THE POPULATION NEW TERRITORIES WOULD GROW TO OVER THREE MILLION.

IN THE

UP HE POINTED OUT THAT FROM 1973

TO THE RND OF

THE 1990,

HAD GOVERNMENT

SPENT ALTOGETHER $34 BILLION ON THE

NEW TOWN INCLUDE THE COST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, AND THIS FIGURE DID NOT

OF LAND ACQUISITION AND PUBLIC HOUSING EXPENDITURE.

PLANNED AND ARE TSUEN

DEVELOPED EIGHT NEW WAN (INCLUDING KWAI

SHEUNG (INCLUDING

SHUI),

SO FAR, THE GOVERNMENT HAS

THEY TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. TSING), SHA TIN, TUEN MUN, TAI PO, FANI ING YUEN LONG, TIN SHUI WAT AND TSEUNG KWAN O.

THE BUILD-UP AND LAYOUT OF A NEW TOWN, MR LAM SAID, FOLLOWED

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

WHICH SETS

THE GUIDELINES PROVIDED IN THE OUTLINE OUT BROAD LAND USE PATTERNS AND MAJOR ROAD FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ON RECLAIMED LAND FROM FISH

ON THE LATEST PROJECTS, HE MENTIONED TIN SHUI WAI NEW TOWN, WHICH IS BUILT PONDS, WITH A PLANNED POPULATION OF 150,000.

ΤΟ THE INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS NEW TOWN WILL BE CONFINED

LAND, SOUTH OF THE NEWLY FORMED

WHILE THEE NORTHERN PART WILL BE RETAINED AS A LAND BANK FOR FURTHER INDUSTRIAL, HOUSING RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FUTURE, HE SAID.

AND

SUMMING UP, MR LAM SAID THIS MASSIVE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME REQUIRES THE COMMITMENT OF. AND CONTINUED CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT, THE PRIVATE SECTOR, THE AND THE RESIDENTS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

RURAL

ORGANISATIONS,

/MR LAM