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interest in the future.
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explain 20.000
it was to be Michael Collins Welsh:
As you said chat right
we don't want anybody to lose up to 97, because Hong Kong. But isn't it a point in your memorandum to us. that since 1986
there's more than double emigration emigration
now 45.000
isn't that a great influx of people out of Hong Kong 7 While business skills. administration. 5 per cent of that. Do you think at rate like that. concerned that this also might undermine international confidence
Hong Kong?
management, are vol not
in
Governor:
manpower
economy.
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of
the number the
I am certainly concerned about the Potential effect on Hong Kong of substantial numbers of talented people leaving Hong Kong and particularly so when we have. like we do at the moment a booming
So that there is already 2
of shortage
skilled and unskilled manpower as well. So that is compounded way if you have substantial numbers of talented people leaving, is
background to this which is that people have always 3 Hong Kong and have left Hong Kong. And figures in the 1970s were they
particularly accurate figures. but they are not
of about 30.000 a region
But there's no doubt that year. has gone up recently. There is no doubt in my mind that one factors in that is concern about the future. it is people looking for some sort of an insurance policy. Now in dealing with that problem have one fundamental point which we will never change, which le We will not in any way seek to stop people going. If people go. it was one of the fundamental freedoms that they should be allowed to go. And indeed that is also written into the Joint Declaration. would of course prefer it if more of those pecole stayed in Hong Kong.
insurance or if many of those people having gone abroad and got their policy in the
Kong Hong form of another passport came back to contribute to its economic success.
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Sir David.
do say that to the fact that a number of returned emigrants that these returnees. if anything should go wrong. move again, won't they. because the thinking that
that they would in any way. in and out like this. guarantee for Hong Kong's future?
move
they'll
these
provide
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people
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Governor!
I
have no particular
did
concern about people have having the freedom to move. I would far rather that people that freedom. And if they found Hong Kong was
they found Hong Kong was a place they wished be in which they enjoyed being in. and where they could be successful
that. that E
feel they should stay
and if they didn't should have
freedom to move. the
because the sort of Hong which people were kept there simply because there was no
is
to
they
Kong alternative
in
We
not necessarily a happy, successful. prosperous Hong Kong that all want to see.
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