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institute will open next year and will provide a further

2,700 places. These institutes have been built under the

auspices of Hong Kong's Vocational Training Council, which

has wide responsibilities for developing and operating

technical and industrial training for operatives,

craftsmen and technicians.

The Council operates two

industrial training centre complexes which provide

training in the major industrial skills for some 9,000

the

trainees each year. On the commercial side, i opened Comil?

two new training centres during the year in the fields of

insurance and electronic data processing.

(b) Medical Services

In the field of medical and health services work

continued on Hong Kong's extensive hospital building

programme.

The number of beds

in

government

and

government-subvented hospitals has risen from 17,000 to

22,000 over the last ten years and is projected to rise to

over 27,000 by the end of 1990.

A report by overseas consultants on the

management and organisation of hospital services was

published in March. One of its principal recommendations

is that the management

of all government and

subvented