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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1994

WE'VE

GOVERNOR: IT'S INTERESTING IF YOU LOOK BACK OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS AT WHAT HONG KONG HAS ACHIEVED WHEREVER IT'S BEEN ABLE TO GET ON WITH THE THAT 10 WE'VE MOVED IN WORKING JOB,

WITH THE MAXIMUM ELBOW ROOM.

WORLD TO YEARS FROM BEING THE 15TH LARGEST TRADING COMMUNITY IN THE BEING THE EIGHTH

SUCCESS, ECONOMIC LARGEST.

HAD GREAT

AND THAT ECONOMIC INCREASING OUR GDP PER HEAD BY ALMOST 80 PER CENT.

FOR SUCCESS HAS BEEN MATCHED BY SUCCESS IN SOCIAL PROGRAMMES AS WELL.

GROUP WENT EXAMPLE, 10 YEARS AGO, ABOUT THREE PER CENT OF THE AGED

NOW THE FIGURE IS ABOUT 18 PER INTO UNIVERSITIES, HIGHER EDUCATION.

TO DO CENT. THOSE ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF WHAT HONG KONG HAS BEEN ABLE

WITH WHEN IT HASN'T BEEN HELD BACK WHEN WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CO-OPERATE

MIRACLE IN HONG ONE ANOTHER AND WITH OTHER PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE THIS

COVERED KONG. I WISHED THAT WE HAD AS MUCH SUCCESS WITH THE SUBJECTS IN THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP, WHERE, ALAS FOR UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS, WE I THINK THAT WHAT HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET ON WITH THINGS ON OUR OWN. I HOPE THE FOREIGN SECRETARY WILL SAY TO VICE PREMIER QIAN QICHEN MAYBE FOR THE NEXT THOUSAND DAYS UNTIL THE TRANSITION SOVEREIGNTY IN JULY 1997, WE SHOULD TAKE SOME INSPIRATION HONG KONG PEOPLE RUNNING HONG KONG HAVE MANAGED TO DO FOR IN THE LAST 10 YEARS AND TRY TO DO AS MUCH IN DEALING WITH

IF WE DON'T SUCCEED IN LARGE BACKLOG OF ISSUES ON THE JLG AGENDA. COPING WITH THOSE ISSUES, IT WILL BE THE FUTURE SAR GOVERNMENT AND THE PRC WHICH SUFFER. SO I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT EVEN THOUGH SOME HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED IN THE JLG LIKE THE RECENT AGREEMENT LANDS, I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT WE CAN SET OURSELVES FAR MORE TARGETS. AND AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, TAKING AN ANALOGY FROM CUP, INSTEAD OF GETTING INVOLVED IN ONE SCORELESS DRAW After 1 THINK PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WOULD LIKE US TO SCORE A FEW GOALS.

IS,

TO CHINESE FROM WHAT THEMSELVES THE VERY

THINGS ON DEFENCE AMBITIOUS THE WORLD

ANOTHER,

QUESTION: SIR, AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, THAT THE EXCO MEMBERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STANDARD OF SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS, WILL YOU REGARD CONCESSION, FOR EXAMPLE, IN JLG TALK, OR CONCESSION TOWARDS AS A THE OFFICIAL CONTACT BETWEEN PWC AND THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, KIND OF WAY TO IMPROVE SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS?

BETTER

EQUALLY

GOVERNOR: I THINK THE WAY TO IMPROVE RELATIONS AND TO ACHIEVE CO-OPERATION IS FOR BOTH SIDES TO SIT DOWN AT THE TABLE TO BE COMMITTED TO THE WELL-BEING, THE PROSPERITY, THE STABILITY, THE FUTURE

I AND KONG.

THINK THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAS OF HONG

OVER JLG AS HAVE OUR TEAM IN THE DEMONSTRATED

THE ITS COMMITMENT

WE ROUND. YEARS.

WILL DO HOPE WE GET THAT COMMITMENT ALL I

IN THE SHORT, ANYTHING, WE WILL MAKE ANY MOVE WHICH WE BELIEVE IS

AND I HOPE THAT GOES FOR MEDIUM AND LONG TERM INTERESTS OF HONG KONG. OTHERS AS WELL.

SO

QUESTION:

ON GOVERNOR,

DEALING WITH JARDINE.

THE CT9 ISSUE, CHINESE THEY SAY YOU'RE DEALING WITH JARDINE. WILL

CRITICISED

YOU AS

YOU

COMMENT ON THAT?

/GOVERNOR