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(v) Monetary
Affairs Branch: SMA explained why Hong
Kong had become an
international
financial
MAB.
centre and briefed the guests on the work of
Mr Zhao Jihua asked how Hong Kong could
compete with Singapore in maintaining her
position as an international financial centre.
SMA said the two financial centres could
complement each other.
inflation and the new airport project would
affect the HK economy.
Mr Zhao asked how
SMA attributed
inflation to strong domestic demand and
predicted that there would be no rapid
reduction in the inflation rate in the near
future; he considered that the economic
benefits of the new airport had not yet become
fully apparent.
6.
were
careful
Throughout the visit, Mr Zhao Jihua and colleagues
not to make comments or to ask any politically
sensitive questions. Mr Zhao Jihua was asked by reporters,
upon his arrival in Hong Kong, to comment on the appointment
of Mr Patten as the new Governor.
issued by the MFA that the
Mr
He repeated the statement
Government hoped Mr
relations.
He
Chinese
Sino-British
Patten would maintain good
declined to comment on the costs of PADs or media reports on
Patten's alleged plans (sic) to restructure HKG. Several
times when the media approached him, he confined his
statement to a brief recap of the briefings received.
coverage on the visit was routine.
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