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I will be visiting Beijing again from the evening of Wednesday 1st March to the following Sunday or Monday. I will then be travelling to Hainan in connection with a proposal I made last year which now has the support of General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, and of the Governor of Hainan Province, Liang Xiang.

Mr Wu Mingyu, Vice president of the Development Research Center of the State Council is aware of the arrangements which have been made.

I understand that unfortunately, you may not be in Beijing during this period, but I hope to meet you on another visit, perhaps in early May. In any case, I will call your office in, the hope that one of your staff may have time to see me.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Lees

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NPC: LI PENG'S WORK REPORT: HONG KONG AND MACAO

1. THE FOLLOWING IS THE SECTION FROM LI PENG'S WORK REPORT TO THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTH NPC DEALING WITH HONG KONG AND MACAO:

TEXT BEGINS: IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE SINO-BRITISH AND SINO- PORTUGUESE JOINT DECLARATIONS ON THE HONG KONG AND MACAO QUESTIONS RESPECTIVELY, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS IN THE PAST YEAR COOPERATED WELL WITH THE BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENTS. CHINESE, BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE OFFICIALS AS WELL AS THE SINO- BRITISH AND SINO-PORTUGUESE JOINT LIAISON GROUPS HAVE, AFTER CONSULTATION, REACHED AGREEMENT ON A SERIES OF QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE SMOOTH TRANSFERENCE OF HONG KONG AND MACAO. THE BASIC LAW OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (DRAFT), WHICH TOOK ITS PRESENT FORM AFTER EXTENSIVE SOLICITATION OF OPINIONS AND REPEATED REVISIONS, HAS BEEN EXAMINED AND PUBLISHED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS AND UPON FURTHER SOLICITATION OF OPINIONS AND REVISION, WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTH NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS FOR ADOPTION. THE DRAFTING OF THE BASIC LAW OF THE MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION WAS STARTED LAST YEAR AND IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN 1993. RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS UNDER THE STATE COUNCIL HAVE TAKEN AN ACTIVE PART AND COOPERATED IN THE WORK OF DRAFTING THE TWO BASIC LAWS, WHICH WAS PRESIDED OVER BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLES CONGRESS. WE ARE CONVINCED THAT WITH FURTHER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JOINT DECLARATIONS ECONOMIC CONTACTS BETWEEN THE MAINLAND AND HONG KONG AND MACAO

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