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EMIGRATION
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Recognise that this is a subject of concern to many people in Hong Kong. We are following trends carefully. Welcome decision of
Hong Kong Government that task force should monitor problem.
No easy solutions: efforts should be concentrated on maintaining Hong Kong as place where people wish to make their lives
Steadily improving living standards and quality of life make
Hong Kong a very attractive place to live.
HMG to discourage other countries from attracting emigrants from
Hong Kong?
Each country pursues its own immigration policy and Hong Kong people are free to come and go. But governments of the countries to which Hong Kong people well understand that it is not in their interests or in the interests of Hong Kong to have a destabilising
movement of people out of the territory.
Will HMG relax entry rules for emigrants to UK?
Current entry rules permit emigration to UK under certain
conditions: see no reason to vary them.
Chinese Government's attitude to emigration?
Am sure the Chinese authorities understand that emigration is a matter of genuine concern in Hong Kong and are watching trends as
carefully as we are.
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