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The columnist also said that Exco approved the plan for China Light to buy electricity from Daya Bay in 1983 without consulting public opinion on a wide basis and without detailed consideration of the safety aspect because HK people were, at that time, fully occupied by the Sino-British talks on the territory's future. Exco might have approved the plan in the hope of improving Sino-British relations.

Wen Wei Po in a commentary and Yue Mak of the New Evening Post felt that it was a scientific attitude for the Secretary for Economic Services, John Yaxley, to visit Europe to obtain first-hand information on N-plants.

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