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The Challenges of the Future
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36.
Despite all these
achievements, Hong Kong now
faces new and even more daunting challenges if it is to
continue to be the trading, commercial and financial link
between China and the outside world. Indeed, it is because
of the rapid development of its economic interrelationship
with China that these new challenges are arising. The
requirement is to ensure that Hong Kong's
in particular road, port and
essential
economic infrastructure
airport facilities
are adequate
to
meet the future
demands on them arising from both its domestic economy and
China's growing use of Hong Kong for trade and
communications with the outside world.
37.
It is already clear that the expansion
of Hong
Kong's port, and any new airport, will need to be sited in
the western part of the territory and will require large
new reclamations from the sea. New reclamations will also
be needed within the harbour area to enable urban renewal
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developments and transport
corridors within the central
areas. Some of the elements needed are already under way -
for instance the construction of a number of new roads and
bridges across the border with China
but crucial
decisions on how, and how far, to proceed will need to be
made within the next year or two. In making them it will
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