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candidates: at county and township levels, there were
direct elections to the people's congresses but at national
-and provincial level there were indirect elections because
it was not possible to organize direct elections on the
scale required. Madam WANG'S briefing was, frankly,
excessively lengthy, poorly structured, and rambling and,
at the end of two hours, she suggested that we adjourn for
lunch during which we could ask questions. However, this
effectively meant that the group was not able to ask
questions about the PRC's political structure. During
young officers
from the
lunch, I sat between two
Commission, one of whom had studied for a year at Gonville
and Caius College, Cambridge and the other at Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario. Another young officer who
is a Bachelor of Law in the Economic Law Department was
particularly interested in the regulation of companies in
Hong Kong, and I undertook to send her some information
regarding this on my return to Hong Kong. All these young
officers struck me as intelligent and open, with a genuine
interest in finding out about Hong Kong.
Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA)
16.
The briefing was conducted by Dr WU Zhongie
), the Deputy Director of the Department of
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Social
Welfare.
About 50 million people
in China are
to help them
disabled and China has different policies
depending on whether they are able to work a little or are
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