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Sir, it will not take long to express my views on the White Paper and those of the constituency I represent, The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. That I am able to keep my remarks short and to the point owes much to the fact that consultation on the 1987 Green
Paper was intensive and extensive, not only among the general population of Hong Kong but also at institutional
level. This included, of course, the General Chamber which did a great deal of work to obtain, as far as was possible, the genuine views of its members on the many important and, I must say, some relatively unimportant issues set out in the Green Paper.
A Special Committee of the Chamber studied these issues very carefully. A detailed survey was carried out to
obtain individual member's views and the results were
fully published, together with the questions and an
assessment of the answers. The Chamber's general fommittee endorsed and approved the findings of the survey, which then formed the basis of a submission to the Survey Office.
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Chamber membership represents diverse ethnic, national
and economic interests. Seventy percent of the member companies are in service industries and thirty percent in manufacturing. Seventy percent are Hong Kong Chinese owned and operated and thirty percent represent foreign interests. I believe it can be claimed that the Chamber,
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more perhaps than any other trader or industrial organisation, is fully representative of all sectors of Hong Kong
business and industry and also at local and international interest and views are quite well balanced.
The Survey attracted a reasonably good response and was
about evenly divided between Chinese and non-Chinese
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respondents. A little surprizingly, perhaps, a full eighty percent of the respondents supported the general
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