the
Netherlands
resettles
80,
75 Norway
more
Indo-Chinese
and Sweden 100.
than refugees
other any
of some 1,800,
This is a most
The US,
country,
which
is
200
currently accepting refugees at an annual rate
more than the previous year's ceiling for Hong Kong. encouraging initial response to the diplomatic campaign, and HMG are grateful to all these countries for their efforts to help Hong Kong, and are continuing to press others for a similar response.
500 refugees to be resettled in UK (sub-para
HMG are considering our continuing efforts
6.17
of the Most
6.15(i) above) have
arrived, now
and
further
in action would be appropriate solve the problem of refugees in Hong Kong.
what
to
NUCLEAR POWER: DAYA BAY PROJECT
6.18 After many years of planning, the main contracts were signed in September 1986 for a nuclear power station to be constructed at Daya Bay in China's Guangdong province, some 50km north east of Hong Kong. The main contractor to supply the nuclear power plant is
French: stations. The plant is 25% Hong Kong owned, power generated when it becomes fully operational in 1993 will go to
Hong Kong.
GEC
will
supply
the
turbine
generators
and
for the power
some 70% of the
6.19
in
April
In
there has
been
Since
at Chernobyl events
great concern in Hong Kong about the risks to which the territory would be
accident at the plant.
the summer coalition of exposed by an anti-nuclear groups collected over a million signatures against the project and presented them in August to the Chinese authorities, who
that throughout
their civil have emphasised
will go ahead.
nuclear programme
In
early
Energy Agency
September members of Hong
(LegCo) published a
Atomic
report on
and
their
several
making observations
Legislative Kong's
to visits
countries
on safety but
Council
nuclear
the International
with
power
leaving open
for
programmes,
debate the questions of the desirability of
of the project for Hong They also visited Peking for discussion, with Senior Chinese
officials before
Kong.
for contracts
the project
were signed.
Some
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