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said
in the briefing at the Ministry of Personnel, a lot of
the younger cadres I met entered the Central Government
through family connections. Civil servants also enjoy
- other special privileges, eg. they are entitled to better
medical treatment in more modern hospitals, exclusive
admission to more sophisticated welfare institutes such as
the Beijing Number One Welfare Institute visited by the
delegation.
5.
Apart
from our pay and the general way of life in
Hong Kong, most officials we met, except the younger ones
in the two HKMAOs and the MOFERT, were uninterested in how
HK's government or economy worked.
Comments on Specific Briefings/Visits
6.
factual.
The
It
most speakers
and was thus
briefings
(Chang Hsiaoping
often
were generally informative but
was very
was evident during various Q&A sessions that
failed to understand or detect our concerns
unable to answer our questions to the point.
perceptive in this regard and
reframed our subtle questions in a more explicit
manner SO as to spell out our concerns.) I was, however,
impressed by the briefing given by the State Commission for
Restructuring the Economic Systems, which gave detailed
background on the PRC's economic reforms and the formidable
tasks involved.
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