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The 1995 Progress Report covers 146 policy commitments from the 1992 and 1993 Policy Addresses and 325 policy commitments announced by the Governor in his 1994 Policy Address.

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"I am pleased to be able to say that 442 94 per cent of these 471 policy commitments are on target," Mrs Chan said.

"We have completed 166 commitments in full and are ahead of schedule on six of them. Fifty-five of them are on-going commitments. We are on schedule on 203 commitments, which we expect will be able to complete in full by their target dates," she said.

"Whilst we are at present behind schedule on 12 of the commitments, I am confident that we shall be able to make up the lost ground and complete the work on target."

She noted that the Administration was behind schedule on 29 items, representing six per cent of the total.

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"We are taking all possible measures to speed up progress on these items," she

"The policy commitments were ambitious targets, and to have achieved a success rate of 94 per cent says a great deal about the professionalism and high morale of the civil service. We will strive to do even better next year," she said.

End/Monday, October 9, 1995

Transcript of the CS's media session

The following is the transcript of the media session by the Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, at the launching of the Progress Report 95 today (Monday):

CS: I am very happy to be able today to present to you and to the Hong Kong community the 1995 Progress Report, both in English and Chinese.