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F) MORE HONG KONG AND MACAU PEOPLE SHOULD VISIT GUANGDONG SO

AS TO STRENGTHEN UNDERSTANDING AND CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION: SENDING A PERIODIC SITUATION REPORTS WAS A METHOD, WHICH MIGHT BE USED.

3.

A REPORT OF THE SAME MEETING IN SD (10 JANUARY) QUOTED XIE

AS HAVING EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT THERE WOULD BE STRONGER CO- OPERATION AND COMMON DEVELOPMENT AMONG GUANGDONG, HONG KONG AND MACAU.

4. ZHU SENLIN WAS QUOTED (WEN WEI PO OF 11 JANUARY) AS ASSURING

THE HONG KONG AND MACAU DELEGATES THAT GUANGDONG WOULD ADOPT A

MORE CAUTIOUS AND STRICT APPROACH IN HANDLING THE IMPORT OF

LABOUR BY HONG KONG.

5.

AMONG THE ECONOMIC DATA ANNOUNCED DURING THE CONGRESS, GUANGDONG WAS REPORTED TO HAVE INCREASED ITS EXPORTS BY 28.29 PERCENT TO US DOLLARS 13,550 BN AND ITS IMPORTS BY 41.2 PERCENT TO US DOLLARS 8,120 M IN 1991.

6.

THE DIRECTOR OF THE GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PUBLIC SECURITY

DEPARTMENT CHEN SHAOJI WAS QUOTED (TKP OF 12 JANUARY) AS SAYING

TO THE HK AND MACAU PRESS IN THE MARGINS OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE

CHINESE AUTHORITIES WERE ACCORDING HIGH PRIORITY TO TACKLING THE

PROBLEM OF SMUGGLING ACROSS THE BORDER. ACCORDING TO THEIR

STATISTICS, LAST YEAR THEY INVESTIGATED OVER 4,000 CASES WHICH INVOLVED OVER 6,000 PERSONS AND CONFISCATED A TOTAL WORTH OF 657M RMB OF GOODS. A FAIR AMOUNT OF THESE CASES HAD BEEN RESOLVED WITH

THE ASSISTANCE OF THE HK POLICE. HE WENT ON TO SAY HE HAD MET THE

HK COMMISSIONER OF POLICE THREE TIMES SINCE EARLY LAST YEAR AND

THE CHANNEL FOR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND CO-OPERATION WAS

WORKING WELL. HE REFERRED TO SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES IN THE DAYA BAY

AREA AND SAID HK AUTHORITIES TRANSMITTED INFORMATION TO THE CHINESE SIDE ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES CONFISCATED OVER 600 PIECES OF SMUGGLED GUNS (ABOUT 250 IN 1990 AND 400 IN 1991).

7.

FORMER VICE-GOVERNOR KUANG JI WAS ELECTED AS A VICE-CHAIRMAN

OF THE PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE OF THE POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE IN PLACE OF QI FENG (A FORMER NCNA OFFICIAL IN HK) WHO RESIGNED (SD OF 13 JANUARY).

TKP (17 JANUARY) REPORTED THAT ZHU SENLIN WAS ELECTED AS GOVERNOR OF GUANGDONG YESTERDAY AT THE END OF THE PROVINCIAL

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