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structure of NCNA with Regional Offices being set up in Hong Kong,

Kowloon and the new

This appears in part to be

territories.

designed to match the geographical basis on which representative government is evolving in Hong Kong. There have also been major personality changes in recent years. Following the arrival in 1983

of Xu Jiatun as Director. Many long-service Cantonese cadres have

been replaced by newly-imported officials from the mainland. The number of mainland cadres known to be working in Hong Kong has

increased from 1,076 in 1982 to 2,832 in June 1985.

3.

as

(a)

(b)

NCNA's current covert and overt activities may be summarised

follows:

Discouraging the formation of political parties and warnings about dangers of too rapid a movement towards representative government, arising from suspicion that the British may be seeking to pre-empt the terms of the Basic Law, and in order to reduce the pressure of public demand for a system which the Chinese might find difficult to control after 1997.

Seeking to identify and win over

over promising younger Hong Kong

Chinese, both inside and outside the Civil Service who are to competent and well-regarded locally and whom they expect be in positions of power and influence by 1997. Such people

extensively cultivated by the

and sophisticated more

n ow working in NCNA, and are

are

impressive Chinese

officials

also invited to pay visit to China.

(c)

Cultivating

the

Hong Kong neutralise ог isolate opposition

China's policies.

media

in order and public

and gain acceptance

to

for

(d)

Building contacts and winning over community organisations at the grassroots level with the apparent aim of strengthening

their influence in

bases upon which

the

representative

Government is evolving.

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