CONFIDENTIAL
Subject
At present rates of construction the housing problem should have become manageable in the second half of the decade
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12(c)
The central directorate of Government reorganised
12(d)
Satisfactory progress of district administration
12(f)
Plans for expansion of technical and tertiary education
12(g)
12(h)
Large number of Government scholarships to United Kingdom institutions to make up for shortage of local professionals
Relations with China
Satisfactory state of official and economic relations with China
Emergence of the new town of Shenzhen: the importance of supporting it
Rise in discussion of the future of Hong Kong, but no slide in confidence, and no basis on which to urge action by the Chinese because of imminent catastrophe. Preferable to stick to present policy of insisting problem exists which must be faced and solved soon in mutual interest.
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