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HONG KONG: OPENING OF CASTLE PEAK'A' POWER STATION
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Lord Kadoorie, Chairman of China Light and Power Company,
has invited the Prime Minister to inaugurate the Castle Peak 'A'
Power Station if she visits Hong Kong this year.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Private Secretary write to No 10 on
the lines of the attached draft.
Background and Argument
3.
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Lord Kadoorie wrote on 23 December 1981 to the Prime Minister
inviting her to inaugurate the Castle Peak 'A' Power Station if she
o2614visits Hong Kong in 1982. The Prime Minister has now approved in
principle the proposal for her visit to China and Hong Kong in
September 1982. Ms Varley of the Department of Industry wrote to
Mr Pattison at No 10 on 18 January recommending that the Prime
Minister accept Lord Kadoorie's invitation. Mr Coles replied on
and asked for confirmation from the FCO that they see
no difficulty in incorporating this event in the programme' There
should be no difficulty; I consider that we should give strong
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19 January,
support to the idea.
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4. The Castle Peak project is of special significance to the UK.
Lord Kadoorie is a great anglophile and in 1977 asked the then Prime
Minister whether the Government could supply a power station to meet
the growing electricity demands in Kowloon and the New Territories
of Hong Kong. The Department of Industry coordinated and negotiated
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