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102.

Physically,

Hong Kong

will have changed almost

beyond recognition. It will take about 25 minutes to travel

by rail from central Kowloon to the new airport at Chek Lap

Kok. On the way, you will go along the new West Kowloon

reclamation and pass new port facilities at Stonecutters

Island and Tsing Yi. Alternatively, you could travel from

Central to the Chinese border via the new Western Harbour

Crossing, Tsing Yi, the Route 3 tunnel to Yuen Long and the

Lok Ma Chau bridge. Redevelopment will be beginning on the

present site of Kai Tak airport. Our Convention and

Exhibition Centre, by then doubled in size, will be some

300 metres inland. So will

business district will have

reclamation with а variety of new civic, cultural and

commercial buildings and with a continuous walkway beside

the harbour linking open park areas.

Exchange Square. The central

expanded greatly onto a new

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Striking social changes will also have taken

place. Our ambitious housing programme means that about

half of Our households will be living in subsidised

housing, almost 40% of them in flats which they own

revised educational targets mean that as

many as 20% of our 19-year olds may be studying in Hong

Kong for first degrees and another 7% for other tertiary

themselves. Qur

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