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attractive market for quality consumer goods, building and

construction and electronics. We hope our growing

expertise in the advanced products of information

technology, to which we are paying so much attention, will

be of increasing interest to you. We can back up the

efforts of our businessmen with export credit facilities

which bear comparison with any country's.

The scope for growth for trade between Hong Kong and the UK

is there. It is up to both of us to seize the opportunity.

For both of us, you in particular, trade and economic

performance are inseparably interwoven.

Trade helps

growth. Growth fosters trade. We both need to compete to

prosper. We have much to learn from each other. I look

forward to mutual success, won by being competitive, by

satisfying the customer. That is the only lasting basis

for economic success. I believe there is an expression in

Cantonese which sums up my thoughts : 'Mutual benefit,

mutual advantage' WOO WHY WOO LAY

I am here to tell you what the UK has to offer.

back and tell them what Hong Kong has to offer.

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I will go