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The Government Contacts

2.3

82

141.

The

Government, too, is heavily

figures speak for themselves.

involved.

The

In the first half of this

And

year, six Policy Branches and 38 Departments made a total

of 166 official visits to their Chinese counterparts.

the flow is in both directions. Over the same period,

130 groups involving almost 1,000 Chinese officials came to

Hong Kong.

142.

Policy Branches and Departments have developed an

extensive network of direct contacts with their Chinese

counterparts at the working level. Interface with Chinese

government agencies and their staff is an increasingly regular feature of their normal working day. For example,

Banking supervision: cooperation between the

People's Bank

and our

Monetary Authority

covers both supervision of institutions and

exchange of information.

Infrastructural planning:

cooperation started

concerns. But the

with shared environnantal

range of contacts has expanded to cover wider

planning issues.

"