TNAG-1457-FCO40-1981-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1986 — Page 203

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new regulation which prevents the sale of certain

Shenzhen-produced items in the local market. Consequently, some foreign investors have cut their

production and reduced their workforce. As regards the fourteen "open cities", apart from balian, Tianjin,

Shanghai and Guangzhou, infrastructural development

projects are to be scaled down and certain financial

controls re-imposed in order to prevent undue outflows of foreign exchange.

11.

Despite some setbacks in the development of the

"open cities" and the SEZS, Chinese leaders have reiterated in the Seventh Five Year Plan that the open door policy is China's basic national policy. To introduce advanced technology, the leaders stress that

more foreign exchange earnings must be generated through exports. Market-oriented reforms are also emphasised in the plan. It is stipulated that economic measures through monitoring and regulating the macro-economic aggregates

will be substituted for direct bureaucratic controls. Apart from laying out strategies for economic development, the plan includes an array of planning targets. growth rate of gross national product is targeted at

78 p.a., that of industries also at 7% p.a. and that of: agriculture at 6% p.a.

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Visible trade between Hong Kong and China

12.

China remained Hong Kong's largest trading

partner in the third quarter of 1985. Total visible trade between Hong Kong and China, at HK$29,635 million,

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