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China on the following day (6th August). According to a waiter employed in the hotel there were two reasons for this. Firstly because of the total numbers of waiting emigrants, the hotel had insufficient accommodation space and power and water supply to cope with the numbers and secondly because as there were comparatively fewer emigrants from the other provinces than there were from Kwangtung and Fukien they would be allowed to leave first. Traveller heard that as all the hotel's rooms were full, some emigrants were sleeping on canvas beds but most were sleeping on the hotel's corridor floors. Families with two or more children who had been forced to sleep in the corridors would be moved to rooms when available. Only a few rooms had just three proper beds, but most had 6 or 7 bunk beds. The hotel's nightly charges were RMBO.50 for a canvas bed or for corridor floor space, between RMEO.60 0.80 for a bunk bed, depending on how many there were in the room and RMB1.00 for a proper bed.
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Traveller heard from waiters at the Hsin An Hotel, that the policy of authorising future departure dates had come into effect at the end of July 1978, because of the large increase in emigrants which was a result of the earnest implementation of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Policy. The policy was one of "self restraint" with the aim of permitting only 50 emigrants to leave China each day. However, the policy could not yet be fully implemented because there were too many waiting emigrants and so the authorities were permitting 90 - 100 emigrants a day to leave China. The policy does not apply to passport holders, who may leave for Hong Kong on the same day as they arrive in Shen Ch'uan, as they stay in Hong Kong for only a short time before proceeding to other countries.
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