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CS visits Industry Department and factory
The Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, today (Thursday) visited the Industry Department at the Quality Services Division offices in Wan chai and also visited a major electronics factory in Yau Tong.
At the Industry Department, Mrs Chan was briefed on the organisation and work of the department.
Accompanied by the Director-General of Industry, Miss Denise Yue, she then toured the Standards and Calibration Laboratory and Product Standards Information Bureau.
The laboratory maintains Hong Kong's primary standards of measurement and provides calibration and measurement services. The bureau provides information and technical advice on standards requirements for industry.
Mrs Chan then departed for Maxtor (Hong Kong) Ltd, a major producer of high-tech surface mount printed circuit boards assemblies for hard disc drives.
The Company won the Governor's Award for Industry in 1993 in both the Productivity category and the Quality category.
At Maxtor, Mrs Chan was briefed by the Managing Director, Mr K W Tse, on the factory's production and products, and toured its production lines on printed circuit board assembly.
End/Thursday, May 11, 1995
City University - a university for the future: Governor
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Universities play an important role of training the intellect of students to help them comprehend the world they live in and to contribute to its development, the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, said.
Officiating at the City University Inauguration Ceremony today (Thursday), the Governor also said the University, essentially a university for the next century, would be an exciting place to develop concerns for academic, cultural and social values to stimulate the enquiring minds of its students.
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