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The Governor will deliver a speech at a lunch hosted by the Royal Institute of International Relations and the Belgium Hong Kong Society.
In London, Mr Patten will discuss the Hong Kong situation with Prime Minister, Mr John Major, Foreign Secretary, Mr Malcolm Rifkind, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials. He will also attend a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons.
He will give a speech to the Centre of Policy Studies and will take the salute at the Royal Tournament.
The Governor will arrive back in Hong Kong on July 15.
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Hong Kong attracts high-tech manufacturing
Hong Kong is an attractive location for high-technology manufacturing in the Asia Pacific region, offering a competitive package of support services to industry as well as excellent infrastructure for technology-based production.
Speaking at the Motorola-Mosel Vitelic TMOS Foundry Co-operation Agreement Signing Ceremony today (Thursday), the Director-General of Industry, Mrs Regina Ip, also said: "The agreement marks a perfect match between two key players in the semiconductor industry in Hong Kong, and a significant breakthrough to local wafer fabrication."
Under the agreement, Motorola will bring 'front-end' wafer processing technology to Hong Kong and will for the first time fabricate silicon wafers in the territory.
"This agreement should generate considerable technological spin-offs to our semiconductor industry, and should contribute enormously towards propelling the semiconductor industry forward," Mrs Ip said.
"Today's agreement is therefore a significant development for our semiconductor industry, and provides ample evidence that Hong Kong remains as attractive a location for high-tech manufacturing as any others in the region.
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