TNAG-0983-FCO40-1202-Immigration-from-China-to-Hong-Kong-1980 — Page 171

Ref: IMM/SEC 279 IV

Analysis of arrivals at Lowu from 2-6-80 to 8-6-80 of travellers holding travel documents issued in the People's Republic of China

Within this period 761 documents were recorded, covering 1,020 travellers. The great majority were valid for return : of the 88 single journey permits recorded in this period, 87 were issued in places in Guangdong province other than Guangzhou; only 1 was issued in Guangzhou. Permits were issued for varying periods of validity (in the case of single journey permits the period refers to the time within which the permit had to be used). Of the 761 :

35

336

(4.6%) (44%)

323

67

(42%) (9%)

were valid for 3 months when issued were valid for 6 months when issued were valid for 1 year when issued were valid for more than one year

Within this period 31% of the permits issued in Fujian province were valid for more than 1 year and 20.5% for one year. 85% of the permits issued in Guangzhou were valid for one year.

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The place of issue of the 761 permits was as follows

275

(36.1%)

125

(16.4%)

200

(26.3%)

34

(4.5%)

127

(16.7%)

-

places in Guangdong other than Guangzhou Guangzhou

Fujian province

Jiangsu province

18 other provinces

During this period no 'pink' permit was issued.

Most of the permits were issued in the two months prior to the travellers' arrival in Hong Kong :

3*

147

(19.3%)

406

(53.4%)

issued in June 1980 issued in May 1980

125

(16.4%)

issued in April 1980

74

(9.7%)

issued in March 1980

9

(1.2%)

issued between October 1979 and February 1980

Prepared by

Immigration Department

Hong Kong

Date : 24 June 1980