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narcotics.
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The overall strategy consists of four main elements
law enforcement, treatment and rehabilitation, preventive education and publicity, and international action. The complete effort is coordinated by the non-statutory Action Committee Against Narcotics
(ACAN). Law enforcement (conducted by the Narcotics Bureau of the
Royal Hong Kong Police Force and the Customs and Excise Service)
pushes up the price of illicit drugs, thus inducing addicts to seek
treatment under programmes run by the Prisons Department, the
Medical and Health Department and the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers. At the same time, preventive education and publicity are used to help prevent young people from becoming addicts. Hong Kong plays an active part in international anti-drug action, with especially close links in South-East Asia, Europe and North America.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE
4.9 Hong Kong continues to develop at a pace and intensity that
astonishes most visitors. The new towns of Tsuen Wan, Sha Tin, Tuen
Wan Tai Po, Fanling and Yuen Long in the New Territories have been designed to provide housing for an eventual 2,900,000 people, together with employment opportunities and related services such as
schools, hospitals, clinics and recreational facilities. This will
involve a major shift of population from the older urban areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon.
4.10 The Mass Transit Railway (operated by an independent public corporation) opened in February 1980, and now serves 25 stations on two lines linking Hong Kong Island with East Kowloon and Tsuen Wan.
Construction has also started on a line along the north shore of Hong Kong Island. The Kowloon-Canton railway is currently being modernised, including double-tracking, electrification and the
provision of new stations.
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