TNAG-2292-FCO40-3304-Official-visits-from-Hong-Kong-to-China-1991 — Page 73

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The Problem

CONFIDENTIAL

Cross Border PRC Passenger Coaches

CRC

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The

Chinese side has asked for a new and

separate quota to allow 100 PRC left-hand-drive passenger

coaches to enter Hong Kong.

Background

2.

Cross border passenger coach services were

a crossing quota system agreed

and the Chinese authorities.

introduced in 1981 under

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between the Hong Kong

Currently, 21 Hong Kong companies operate a total of

routes from different parts in Hong Kong to destinations

in Guangdong and Fujian. A combined daily total of up to

119 crossings on weekdays and 127 crossings during weekends

and public holidays are made through the crossing points at

Sha Tau Kok, Man Kam To and, since 8 August 1991, Lok Ma

Chau.

3.

All existing cross border coach operators are

domiciled in Hong Kong, i.e. they are companies registered

under Hong Kong law, although some

of them such as the

China Travel Service (HK) Limited are

wholly or partly

owned by Chinese interests.