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from 5 to 7 May. The aim of the visit was to promote co-ordination of cross-border security measures and to establish regular contacts on such matters. Agreement in principle was reached on the setting uf of a special cross-border telephone-link on security matters and the holding of regular, working-level meetings at the border. The draft agreement has not yet been confirmed by the Guangdong side.
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Hong Kong delegates to the Chinese Peoples Consultative Conference meeting in February are alleged to have stated that the smuggling of gold, silver and herbs is rife in Swatow and that the communist controlled Po Sang Bank in Hong Kong has purchased 30 million pieces of silver coin smuggled from China during the past year. Luxury items from Hong Kong are finding their way to remote parts of China, indicating that senior cadres in China must be implicated in large scale smuggling since this illegal activity is so widespread and overt.
Developments in Shenzhen
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NCNA reported on 25 May that up to the end of March this year 600 projects involving foreign participation had been set up or were under construction in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the number of such projects had been put at 490 by NCNA at the end of December). Overseas businesses have to date invested a total of HK$2,200 million in the Zone and NCNA said that foreign investment there in 1980 was nearly seven times the 1979 figure (i.e. before the zone was formally established). 408 of the projects are in the industrial sector, 144 in agriculture, 16 in tourism, 14 in commerce and service trades and 18 in transport and real estate. These projects and related construction works have provided employment for 11,000 local people.
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A delegation from Beijing headed by a Vice Minister of the Ministry of Communications recently visited the Shekou Industrial Zone. The project has been highly praised in comparison with a similar project at Amoy which is not proceeding satisfactorily
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