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and

diversify.

This means making major investments in our

will revert to this later.

physical infrastructure.

Without these investments, the economy could not produce the

prosperity on which families base their plans for the

future.

15.

At the same time, as we grow richer, the Government

must see to it that the community has adequate housing,

medical and other services. The labour force is entitled to

а decent working environment, as well as to proper rewards.

Through publicity and legislation, we are steadily improving

conditions in the work-place, be it office or factory. Both

the Government and the community have consistently, and

heavily in creating the

willing to invest

rightly, been

public services necessary to meet the community's essential

needs.

16.

change in

The last decade has seen a radical

economic thinking throughout the world, and а growing

realisation that the free market offers the best prospect of

economic success. Hong Kong has been a model in the revival

of free trade and free market economics. With a clear

vision of our essential objectives, plus prudent management,

we can enter the 1990s with confidence that Hong Kong will

continue to surprise the world and confound the pessimists.

/D. LAW