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SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 1994

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION CRUCIAL TO REPRESENTATIVE GOVT

TO REGISTER AS A VOTER AND CAST THE BALLOT IN ELECTIONS ARE TWO WAYS TO SHOW A CITIZEN'S CONCRETE SUPPORT TO REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT MICHAEL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, MR SUEN, SAID THIS (SUNDAY) AFTERNOON.

ADDRESSING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CIVIC EDUCATION DAY ORGANISED BY THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION (CPCE), WERE GETTING MR SUEN SAID IT WAS AN ENCOURAGING SIGN THAT CITIZENS MORE INTERESTED IN BOTH CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS.

DISTRICT

MADE BY THE COMMITTEE AND CONTRIBUTIONS

AWARENESS SHOULD NOT

IN AROUSING CIVIC

"THE

UNDERESTIMATED," HE SAID.

EDUCATION

BODIES

CIVIC

BE

"CITIZEN

FOR

HE WAS ALSO GLAD TO NOTE THAT THE COMMITTEE HAD TAKEN PARTICIPATION IN REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT" AS ITS WORK EMPHASIS THIS YEAR AS WELL AS FOR TODAY'S ACTIVITIES.

REPRESENTATIVE

STRESSING THAT THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF GOVERNMENT HINGES ON CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SUPPORT, MR SUEN CALLED ON THE COMMITTEE AND ITS DISTRICT COUNTERPARTS TO CO-OPERATE AND WORK TOWARDS THE GOAL OF "HONG KONG PEOPLE RULING HONG KONG".

DANIEL TSE ALSO CITED

THE

AT THE OPENING, CPCE CHAIRMAN DR FINDINGS OF A VOTING BEHAVIOUR STUDY PUBLISHED LAST YEAR ON THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

THE REPORT CONTAINED A SUGGESTION PUBLIC TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN COMMUNITY

DEVELOP THEIR UNDERSTANDING DONE TO REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

THAT FOR MEMBERS OF THE

MORE AFFAIRS,

OF

THE

OBJECTIVES

SHOULD BE

OF

"THIS IS THE PRIMARY AIM BEHIND TODAY'S EVENT,

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HE SAID.

TO ALSO

WILL DESIGN EDUCATION PROGRAMME THROUGH CABLE TELEVISION.

AN

THE PROMOTE THE THEME OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION,

COMPUTER HOLD A SERIES OF ACTIVITIES SUCH AS

INTRA-SECONDARY COMPETITION,

AND QUIZ

A

SCHOOL

COMMITTEE SOFTWARE A CIVIC

CIVIC IMPORTANT

ANNUAL LARGE-SCALE

SPREAD

SUCH

THE HE SAID

ORGANISATION OF THE

EDUCATION

SHOWED THE COMMITTEE'S AIM TO DAY MESSAGES TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.

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