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Environmental Technology for Industry at

Polytechnic, funded by the private sector.

the City

83.

I believe that major improvements

to

the

environment are well within our reach. By the end of the

decade, Hong Kong's hospitals will have fewer patients with

The air we breathe will be cleaner. With

lung disease.

the widespread

the number of

use

of unleaded petrol and the reduction in

diesel-engine vehicles, there will be fewer

noise and air pollution. More people will

sleep, uninterrupted by noise from

or aircraft landing and taking off.

Cleaner beaches will attract more visitors. Our country

parks will remain intact, including those in Sai Kung, Pat

complaints about

enjoy а good night's

pile-drivers, machinery

Sin and

as

the

south and west Lantau,

well as the

internationally famous bird sanctuary at Mai Po. Even our

massive infrastructural developments should have

capacity to improve rather than damage the environment.

That is because they provide the opportunity

over-crowding and better urban planning.

for less

/C.

GOVERNMENT