TNAG-0840-FCO40-1049-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1979 — Page 66

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To assistant Political Adviser

: 5-456065 Ext 126 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51

Date: 30 July 1979

15 AUG 1979Your Ref:

PRECESITY

DESK OFFICER

INDEX

Groups from China

30 June 1979

RECEIVED IN

REGISTRY No. 25 13 AUG 1979

for you.

2.

Paul Sleightholme promised some time ago that we would do the list The one attached covers the first half of 1979.

The list shows that during a period of 26 weeks, 108 groups visited Hong Kong from China with a total of 833 people.

total of 833 people. The average period of visit for each group was 20.4 days. The present pattern is, therefore, in any month 18 new groups from China arrived in Hong Kong with a total of about 139 people.

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