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about delaying construction or moving it further from

Hong Kong?

Thank you.

A.

Vice Premier Li Peng is an expert on nuclear energy

I would like to ask him to answer this question and I

myself will just take this opportunity to have a smoke.

(Laughter).

Well this is really my baby, my special field.

Following the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet

Union like other countries in the world China has also

been greatly concerned about it. The technology we are

now adopting is totally different than that of the

Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

There is a guarantee of the safety of the nuclear

technology in question because it has been in operation

for quite a long time. In fact this technology is widely

used in European nuclear power stations. You may know

that 70% of French nuclear power stations have this

technology. However this does not mean we do not attach

importance to this question. On the contrary we are

going to adopt a series of strong measures to ensure the

safety right from the design stage, through to the

installation and operations of the nuclear power

stations as rightly reported in the press this questions

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