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Speech by the Governor

at a luncheon co-hosted by the Commonwealth Club of San

Francisco, the World Affairs Council of Northern

California and the Hong Kong Association of Northern

California, 20 October 1989.

Mr. Chairman, Ladies & Gentlemen,

This is far from my visit to San Francisco; but it

is the first since becoming Governor of Hong Kong. I am

delighted to be here and to address such a prestigious

gathering.

There is a special affinity between San Francisco

and Hong Kong which extends to our people. Geography

destined both to be great cities. Both have magnificent

natural harbours. Both have their backs to the hills and

their faces towards the Pacific. Both are scenically

beautiful. Both have attracted the adventurous from afar.

Both are sustained by a firm belief in individual freedom

and enterprise.

One other aspect seals this special relationship.

Over the years, successive waves of migrant Chinese have

lapped your shores. San Francisco is the "golden mountain"

of the Cantonese idiom. Many of these migrants passed first