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equivalent
to almost the entire size of Kowloon today will
be nearing completion.
On Hong Kong Island, the Central
business district will have been transformed by its
onto the new harbour reclamation.
New and
expansion
well-designed towns will be under construction in Tung Chung
and Tai Ho on Lantau.
78.
In carrying out these massive development plans,
both the Government
attention
to
our
and the community must continue to pay
environment. Here again, there are hard
choices to be made. We cannot shy away from development in
an attempt
to
stagnation.
preserve
the status quo.
That would be
Nor can we press ahead regardless of the
consequences. That would be wanton destruction.
79.
basis
Last
for
year's White Paper on Pollution forms the
the Government's programme of environmental
protection. We are already operating the main provisions of
the Noise Control Ordinance; and the requirement for lower
content fuel, introduced in July, has resulted in a
improvement in air quality. The average level of
dioxide in the air we breathe has fallen by over 40%
territory-wide, and by as much as 80% in some areas. By
early next year, when we introduce unleaded petrol and take
sulphur
dramatic
sulphur
/other
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