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the
environment remains a priority
-
a major challenge for
the 1990s.
(e) Social Development
62.
I
We
referred just now to the quality of life. The
people of Hong Kong have made great sacrifices in the past
to build our economy and develop our infrastructure.
are undertaking new and larger investment programmes for
the coming decade. But economic growth is not being
pursued simply for its own sake. Our goal must be to use
the additional wealth created to improve the living
standards of all our families and to create an attractive
and secure life-style for the community as a whole.
63.
Hong Kong today is as socially and economically
mature as many developed nations. In such a community, the
Government must be по less committed to improving social
services and to protecting the disadvantaged than it is to
upgrading the physical infrastructure. That is why we have
paid So much attention to social services
decades.
Much has been achieved.
in recent
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