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MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1991

CLOSE CO-OPERATION NEEDED FOR PEARL RIVER DELTA INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT

AN

HONG KONG WILL NEED TO DISCUSS ITS STRATEGY ON INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS TO ENSURE THAT IT REALLY DOES FORM INTEGRAL PART OF THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR GRAHAM BARNES, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

BEING

A SPEAKING AT

LUNCHEON MEETING ORGANISED BY THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MR BARNES SAID SUBSTANTIAL FACILITIES WERE DEVELOPED IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA REGION, AND THE FUNCTIONS OF WOULD TO A CERTAIN EXTENT OVERLAP HONG KONG'S OWN.

WHICH

MR BARNES SAID THE RELATIONS BETWEEN HONG KONG AND GUANGDONG HUGE EXPENSE AND THE PEARL RIVER CITIES WERE VERY GOOD, BUT WITH THE OF INFRASTRUCTURE MUCH MORE DISCUSSION

PARTIES IN THIS REGION WERE GOING TO BE NEEDED.

BETWEEN ALL THE

"WE ARE ALL IN FACT SERVING AN INCREASINGLY COMMON ECONOMIC

WAY OF RATIONAL AREA, AND THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY A MORE

GOING ABOUT THINGS THAN A DETERMINATION THAT EACH SHOULD DO EVERYTHING, HE SAID.

AT THE

THAT

IN CHINA,

IN RECOGNISING THAT THE PORT AND THE AIRPORT SHOULD BE HEART OF ITS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, THE GOVERNMENT WAS CONFIRMING

IN ONLY HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC FUTURE LAY NOT

SERVICE INDUSTRIES GENERAL BUT IN ITS INTERMEDIATE FUNCTION BETWEEN THE WORLD AND MR BARNES SAID.

HOWEVER, HE SAID THE LACK

INEVITABLE OF

THIS

OF MUTUAL

ABOUT CONSULTATION

THE WAS TYPICAL AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DIFFERENT AIRPORTS ROUND THE DELTA PROBABLY

THE PERIOD OF

DELTA'S DEVELOPMENT WAY BY MUTUALLY COMPETITIVE. HISTORY, AND WAS MIRRORED IN A SMALLER POSTURES THROUGHOUT THE DELTA CITIES.

HONG LINKED

KONG

MUCH

WHICH MR BARNES SAID IT WAS THE PORT MORE CLOSELY WITH THE PEARL RIVER THAN THE AIRPORT.

"

COUNTIES HAVE KONG, WE COBİLD MA WAN CHANNEL OR KAP LEVELS WHICH WELL

HOWEVER, AS MOST OF THE PEARL RIVER CITIES AND BAD TO RELY ON MARINE TRANSPORT FOR SHIPPING TO HONG GET INTO A PROBLEM OF SERIOUS CONGESTION IN

BUILT HAS

UP TO THE SOUT HUN WHEN THE VOLUME SUPPORT TERMINALS ON THE NEW LANTAU PORT PENINSULA DEVELOPMENT.

"SO SOME FURTHER RATIONALISATION OF IT'S USE AND

H HE SAID. BETWEEN ALL PARTIES IS GOING TO BE NECESSARY,

COOPERATION

FACED

THE PROBLEM OF WITH DEMAND FROM THE PEARL

CONGESTION

INCREASING

RIVER, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROPOSED A RIVER TRADE CENTRE BARNES SAID.

THE

AROUND PORT AT

MA

WAN

AND

TUEN

ATED AIRPORT MUN, MIZ

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