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Kong.

other existing and proposed airports in the vicinity of Hong

We have provided the Chinese authorities with

comprehensive details of our plans, and will continue to do

So as these plans are updated. I hope to see their support

for а project which will provide the cornerstone of the

prosperity of the Hong Kong Special Administrative

continued

Region.

69.

The

next year.

hard

In

new Airport Authority will come into existence

the meantime, the Provisional Authority is

at work and has made significant progress. In July, it

appointed consultants to draw up the airport master plan; to

engineering design work; and to assess the impact

carry out

the

environment.

The

new airport will have on the

consultants have finished the first phase of the master

plan, including recommendations on the alignment of the two

runways. The Provisional Authority will soon take decisions

on the overall

layout of the new airport. The consultants

will then be able to go ahead with their detailed design

This will be finished

work.

expect the main site

formation

begin in the second half of 1991.

by November next year. I

works for the airport to

/70.

The

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