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In an effort to improve its financial position (para 14, July 1980 Report), the Wen Wei Pao newspaper has invested, in collaboration with a Hong Kong firm, in a cemetery in Shenzhen for the burial of "Hong Kong and Macau compatriots". Its fellow newspaper, Ta Kung Pao, is also considering diversifying into commercial activities in order to help pay for the increased salaries it has granted to its staff.
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Following complaints by some authorities in China that journalists from the communist press in Hong Kong are given too much freedom of access to commune cadres in Guangdong, the journalists' movements and contacts are to be more closely controlled and monitored by the Guangdong authorities.
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The NCNA in Hong Kong has discussed the possibility of selling
the ailing communist film studio at Clearwater Bay and replacing it in Shenzhen. This would prove unpopular with the workers in view of the
increased daily travelling involved.
21.
The new chairman of the communist South China Film Industry
Workers Union, which has been inactive for some time, has been encouraged
.to revitalise it.
United Front
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United Front work for the achievement of the Four Modernisations
and the reunification of Taiwan goes on unabated. The communist influenced Amateur Swimming Association recently sent a team to compete in China and Taiwan and cultural groups from China will be visiting Hong Kong in the autumn. These include a large Peking Opera Group which will be taking part in the annual Asian Arts Festival, the first such participation by a company from China. A table tennis championship for 16 of the world's best players was staged in the new Queen Elizabeth II Stadium: the final was between the
two entrants from China.
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