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- 7 MAY 1987

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Visit to Hong Kong by HRH Princess Margaret

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General brief on Hong Kong

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This brief touches on the changes and

developments in Hong Kong over the last 10 years with

particular reference to Hong Kong's economic and cultural

developments.

General developments

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So much has happened, and been achieved, during

last decade that Hong Kong, even to its own

residents, has become almost a different place.

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One can instance the great changes in physical

development resulting from steady progress with the housing programme (some 2.5 million people now live in

either rental or home ownership public housing). programme also accelerated development of new towns in the New Territories. Major improvements to communications

networks have revolutionalised public transport, through

the construction of the Mass Transit Railway, the

electrification and modernization of the Kowloon - Canton

Railway, as well as the New Territories Circular Highway

which will be linked to the first major road crossing into

China due for completion in 1988. New building in the