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for some years.

The Colony's unique

position is largely responsible for this.

Although, in economic terms, Hong Kong

is by any standards both mature and highly

sophisticated there can be no constitutional

progress towards self-government in the

Colony since there have been frequent and

plain indications that the Chinese Peoples'

Government expects the constitutional

status quo to be maintained.

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