TNAG-2733-FCO40-3939-Future-of-Hong-Kong-constitutional-development-1993 — Page 57

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The number of mainland visitors to Hong Kong

will reach one million.

The number of

passengers

to and from China

passing through Kai Tak will be almost four

million, double the figure five years ago and

representing one in five of all passengers.

About half of our external telecommunications

traffic will be with China.

The China Advantage

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145.

This close

relationship

with China is the product

of

culture, location and

history.

We have benefited

enormously over the last decade from the increasing China

dimension to Hong Kong's life. This is destined to expand

It ia vital that we continue to take the

still further.

fullest advantage of the

modernisation offers us.

opportunities

which China's

146.

In the months ahead, we intend to discuss with the

authorities concrete measures to develop cooperation

in the main areas of importance to our working relationship:

Chinese

the

exchange of

infrastructural

Guangdong,

information on major

projects in Hong Kong and

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