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5. To meet the Chinese hunger for Western known-how, institutes of technology and further universities would be set up in Hong Kong and the "special economic zone" of the highest international standard.
It would be neither necessary nor possible during your visit to do more than set the agenda for talks leading to such developments. The long term economic, social and political reality would be that five million people in Hong Kong became an indistinguishable element in a larger "special economic zone" of 20 million Chinese, which would itself achieve a special role in the development of China as a whole, perhaps with similar zones round Shanghai and elsewhere.
I am sure you will be told that it will go down well if you attribute the success of Hong Kong to the virtues of the Chinese people, while saying that Britain will be ready to continue its humble role in whatever ways may be of service.
You have my best wishes for the success of your visit.
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Jenny Bay
Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, M.P.,
Prime Minister,
10 Downing Street,
SW1.
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