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IN THE WHITE PAPER ON PEPPESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT HAD DIFFERENT

MEANINGS IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE, WHICH HAD GIVEN RISE TO

MISUNDERSTANDINGS. SHE CITED "A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT'' TRANSLATED AS ZHENGZHI'' (2393/0455) AND YEY CONCENSUS' AS GENJU

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HING! (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE), WHICH SHE

SAID WERE QUITE DIFFERENT IN MEANING.

5. NEW YEAR'S MESSAGES: THE GOVERNOR STPESSED THAT IT PEMAINED

THE HKG'S OBJECTIVE TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS IP WHICH HK'S ECONOMY COULD PROSPER: AND THAT FUPTHEP PPOGRESS WOULD

BE SOUGHT IN IMPLEMENTING THE JOINT DECLAPATION. HE ADDET THAT THE WORKING OF THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM WOULD PE CAFEFULLY MONITOPED IN PREPARATION FOR THE 1987 REVIEW. IN A RADIO INTERVIEW, THE

CHIEF SECRETAPY EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE APOUT THE ECONOMIC SITUATION

IN THE YEAR AHEAD. XU JIATUN EXPRESSED SATISFACTION WITH THE

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF HK IN THE YEAR AHEAD AND BELIEVED CONFIDENCE

AND STABILITY HAD BEEN BOOSTED.

6. OTHERS: ECONOMIC JOURNAL REPORTED THAT PLANS FOR POLICE LOCALISATION CALLED FOR THE EARLY PETIREMENT OF SOME SENIOR EXPATRIATE OFFICERS TO SPEED UP THE PROMOTION OF LOCAL OFFICERS. A CHINESE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE WAS FORECAST FOR 1995. PAPERS REPORTED XU JIATUN AS SAYING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO RETIRE NOW, FUT IT WAS NOT (NOT) UP TO HIM. FINANCIAL DAILY PEMAPKET THAT XU

HAD NOT MET LU PING DURING THE LATTEP'S VISIT.

COMMENTARIES:

7. LU PING: THE LEFT WING PRESS PREDICTAPLY DESCRIBET THE VISIT AS A SUCCESS AND SAID IT HAD INCREASED CHINA'S UNDERSTANDING OF HK. TA KUNG PAO HOPED THAT LU AND HIS DELEGATION WOULD REFLECT TO THE BLDC OBJECTIVELY THE MANY HK VIEWS THEY HAD COLLECTED. THE PAPER SAID THAT ALTHOUGH THE VISIT MIGHT NOT HAVE SOLVED ALL QUESTIONS AND DISPELLED ALL WORRIES, IT HAD CEPTAINLY ENHANCED MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING. THE PAPER NOTED THAT LU HAD RECEIVED A FRIENDLY

PECEPTION FROM THE BRITISH HK ADMINISTRATION, AND SAID THAT FRIENDLY COOPERATION BETWEEN BRITAIN ANT CHIHA MAS NECESSARY FOR A

SMOOTH TRANSITION AND THE CONVERGENCE OF THE BL AND POLITICAL

PEFORMS. TIN TIN DAILY NEWS SAID THAT LU HAD LISTENED TO VIEWS

OR A WIDE BASIS, BUT FELT THAT HIS DELEGATION VAS TOO SMALL, PERHAPS THEPERY LACKING IN EXPERTISE IN SOME APEAS. THE PAPER ALSO PEGRETTED THAT THE DELEGATION HAD NOT (NOT) GONE DEEP INTO THE COMMUNITY''. MING PAO SAID THAT THE VISIT MAD PROUCHT KROUT TEFTER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PEKING AND HK. THERE SHOULD PE FURTHER VISITS BY PLDC MEMREPS, AND PLCC VENTERS SHOULD GO TO PEKING DO EXCHANGE VIEWS. SING TAD JIH PAD SAID THAT ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE LU HAD STIREED UP SOME ANXIETIES, BUT WAIR THAT ON THE POSITIVIE SIDE CHINA WOULD DEFIVE PETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HONG KONG FROM THE VISIT. THE EXPPESS SAID THAT HONG KONG PEOPLE'S WORRIES WOULD ONLY DISAPPEAR AFTER CHINA HAD ESTABLISHED A COMPREHENSIVE LEGAL SYSTEN.

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