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labourers and industrial patriarchs of 25 years ago have become the
skilled and flexible workforce and experienced entrepreneurs of today
and will be the well educated technicians and technologists and highly
qualified executive and international financiers of tomorrow. And
conditions are not static either in the countries of our competitors
or our markets abroad. Here in Hong Kong industrial, financial and
economic requirements as well as social aspirations are changing fast,
and the Government would fail to understand and act on them at its peril.
131. So let us not be daunted by such economic uncertaintiės as
exist today. There is much more working for Hong Kong than against
it; it also has many friends; but no better friend than itself and its
own people and the industrial and financial and social phenomenon which
they have made it. So let us plan and legislate with the confidence
that the qualities of Hong Kong deserve.
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