Chief editor of the Yangcheng Evening Paper:
Your Paper is the spokesman of the people. I now wish to rely on your support to gain equal treatment for the Chire se emigrants holding the passports of Chinese People's Republic.I myself am also a victim. I'm a overseas chinese in the Malagasy Republic holding a Chinese passport issued by the Chinese Embassy in Malagasy.Every time when I wan to pass Hongkong or visit Hongkong for a tour, I should apply in advance
and find a relative in Hongkong as a quarantor. Normally it tabk several months before I could have the permission and sometimes, the applications were turned down. If one does not have a relative in Hongkong to be the sponsor, he could not even go through the transit formalities for returning to China. This is the deliberate harassment of the Hongkong Immigration Office, their despite on Chinese passport. This is an unequal treatment to the Chinese people and it encroached upon the interests of th Chinese citizens. I have a clear contrast: When Chinese emigrants holding Malagasy passports, Mauritius passports Portuguese passports or French passports arrive in Hongkong,they will. no doubt have the permission to pass Hongkong or stay there for three months. They do not need to apply in advance and they don't need to find a sponsor for them. Why the Chinese passport holders can not be treated as the same?This pra ctice is to treat the Chinese citizens as the citizens of a low grade nation and make our country losing face. I earnestly request you to report this to the relevant authority „. rl lodge a serious protest to the HK Immigration Office and the British Embassy in China, win honour for the motherland and up-root this unequal treatment agaist the Chinese citizens. It will be more conveniet for the overseas chineses holding Chinese passports for returning to China by way of Hongkong if we could have an reasonable and equal treatment. I hope that your Paper will do your best to help us. Thank you for all the troubles you might have for us. Thanks.
Chen Bizhu
20th of August, 1981.
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