TNAG-1321-FCO40-1727-Future-of-Hong-Kong-opinion-polls-and-surveys-1984 — Page 56

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2. Please see Mr Lang's comments.

3. It should be borne in mind that the Southern District Board poll, which is very long, was carried out before the Secretary of State's speech whilst the Eastern District Board poll, which is very short, was carried out after this speech. Both polls attach their own analyses of results. The first poll describes the number of questionnaires sent out and returned from each of the different areas in the Southern District, whilst it is impossible to determine any of this important information from the second poll.

4.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT BOARD POLL:

(i)

A very high proportion of people felt that Hong Kong was Chinese territory and that China had the right to recover Hong Kong. However only 20% thought that China should actually recover Hong Kong.

(ii) Opinion divided fairly evenly over

whether Britain or Hong Kong people should administer Hong Kong after 1997, but only 3% in favour of Chinese administration. However, of those who thought that China should recover sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, 73% were in favour of "Hong Kong people rule Hong Kong" In general, slightly more support for "Hong Kong people rule Hong Kong" than for continued British administration.

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Table 9 (page 5) shows that the older the respondant, the more he/she tended to favour "Hong Kong people rule Hong Kong" whilst younger people tended to be more in favour of British administration.

Very high support for members of the highest policy-making bodies being appointed after democratic elections, consultation with representative bodies or some combination of the two. Only 1.7% in favour of these being directly appointed by China. Similar

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