District Board chairmen.
District Boards now play a prominent role in Hong Kong as vehicles for the expression of local opinion. Hong Kong does not have political parties of any significance but there are groupings of articulate citizens. Special interest groups (usually called "pressure groups") are an established feature of the local political scene. They are articulate and vocal: but, as in other places, they are not necessarily as representative of public opinion in general, even оп the issues on which they speak, as the amount of publicity they receive might suggest. There are strongly conservative groupings of business leaders and of the older
generation who share Chinese reservations on the pace of
"democratisation".
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12. Mr Renton
News Agency, at
will meet Mr Xu Jiatun, Director of the New China
the Government House dinner. The New China News Agency plays the role of China's unofficial representative in Hong Kong. Mr Xu is a senior member of the Chinese Communist party.
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13. Mr Renton will give a press conference before departure.
effort will be made to concentrate the attention of the press on
that engagement. But the Hong Kong media are adept at "door
stepping" distinguished visitors on arrival and departure at
engagements outside Government House, and on district visits.
Although care will need to be t ak en not to preemp the main press
conference a short comment relating to the programme it em just
completed can help to ensure wider coverage, particularly television
coverage, of the visit.
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