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the need for flexibility and adaptability in the design
and implementation of our programmes in changing
circumstances is of course well understood.
110. But, Honourable Members, you will readily appreciate
that our plans are designed to continue the progress of
the 70s and, by the mid-80s, to have lifted the life of
Hong Kong on to a plateau on which the same sort of massive
effort of change will no longer be necessary, although
naturally human aspiration has no limit. With new towns
and new land in which to develop, with the crowded
insanitary and insecure conditions of the past behind us,
the universal opportunities for education to sustain our
ability to grasp what the future offers, and with
facilities for a cultural and recreational element of
life unknown ten years ago Hong Kong will be able to
take its rightful place in the region.
111. China is poised for a period of rapid modernisation;
the Western Pacific Basin and South-East Asia is one of
the fastest growth areas in the workd. In the middle of
this ferment of activity is Hong Kong with its magnificent
communications, all the modern facilities required by
international commerce and finance, dynamic and evolving
industries, a large market in its own right, a convenient
platform from which other markets can be worked, a stable
Government, and it is, and will be even more so in six years' time, a Hong Kong which has been re-built, re-located
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