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operations might come to the help of small and medium size

businesses that are well managed and enterprising.

I understand

that this working party - on which the Industry Department,

the Monetary Affairs Branch and the Hong Kong Productigjet prema

Council are represented is making good progress.

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17.

Fourthly, on the delivery of industrial development

and infrastructural support services, particularly to small

and medium sized industrial undertakings, the IDB has endorsed

the need for a further examination of how the marketing

of such services might be improved. Here the IDB consider

that while the quality of the services available is good,

more needed to be done to encourage wider use of these services

which help manufacturers to adopt the technologies of industrial

efficiency and product improvement and innoovation, and

encouraging them to invest in the management and technical

systems required to achieve. these ends.

18.

I hope that Members will feel assured, in the

light of what I have said, that our industrial policies

are evolving in a sound and pragmatic manner, that the Government

has an efficient mechanism for formulating and reviewing

industrial policies and that, in seeking to do more to help

our manufacturing industries, we are pursuing the right

objectives, based on advice of the IDB.

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