TNAG-0305-FCO40-341-Use-of-Chinese-as-official-language-in-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 33

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

1st December 1971

for WRITTEN answer on

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Hong Kong Do

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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Noon Thursday 2/12

Mr James Johnson (Kingston-upon-Hull, West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the present position regarding the use of the Chinese language in the secondary schools of Hong Kong; and what changes are contemplated.

Mr. Anthony Royle.

There are two major types of Secondary School in Hong Kong:

Anglo-Chinese, and Middle Schools. The former teach all

subjects, apart from Chinese studies, in English; the

latter teach all subjects except English, in Chinese.

The aim is to improve the standard of English in the

Chinese schools and the standard of Chinese in the Anglo-

Chinese schools