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28.

housing,

Meanwhile, we must

continue with the task of

feeding and caring for all those who are already

well as the

here. I should like to express my appreciation for the work

of all the men and women of the Government Departments, as

voluntary agencies, who are responsible for

looking after the 54,000 Vietnamese who remain in our camps;

important financial assistance Hong Kong

and also for the

has

received from

the United Kingdom, which has totalled

over $500 million over the past two years. I hope that we

now move towards a humane solution which will bring this

tragic migration to an end.

can

3.

THE NEXT TEN YEARS

29.

At the start of the new decade, it is worth

reflecting on where we now stand in world terms and where we

By the standard of income per head, Hong

have come from.

In

Kong today ranks among the world's top twenty economies.

the 1950s and 1960s, this community struggled and made

sacrifices to achieve even minimal standards of health care,

shelter and social services. Now the facilities provided

by the public sector in medicine, housing, welfare and

education meet the basic

requirements of our

families.

Indeed,