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ON THAT OF THE APPOINTMENT OF HK AFFAIRS ADVISERS.
26. MANY PAPERS NOTED (18.3) THAT NPC HK DELEGATE TSANG TAK- SHING WOULD SUGGEST TO THE NPC THAT A WORKING COMMITTEE BE SET UP TO DRAFT LEGISLATION FOR THE ELECTIONS OF THE FIRST LEGISLATURE OF THE HK SAR AND OTHER LEGISLATION WHICH REQUIRED TO BE FIRST DRAFTED IN THE LATTER PART OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD. THE REPORTS SAID MR TSANG WAS SOLICITING SIGNATURES FROM OTHER DELEGATES AND A SUBMISSION TO THE NPC WAS EXPECTED TO BE MADE.
27. ACCORDING TO THE ECONOMIC TIMES (22.3) THE CHINESE SIDE HAD STEPPED UP WORK ON THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE. A PROPOSAL FORMULATED BY HKMAO STATE COUNCIL WOULD BE SUBMITTED IN THE NAME OF THE GUANGDONG NPC DELEGATION TO THE NPC. THE PAPER SUGGESTED A ''PREPARATORY COMMITTEE'' BE SET UP TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR THE HK SAR PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TO BE SET UP IN 1996. ACCORDING TO CHINESE SOURCES, THE COMMITTEE WOULD COMPRISE HKMAO STATE COUNCIL AND NCNA HK OFFICIALS, HK DEPUTIES TO THE NPC/CPPCC AND HK AFFAIRS ADVISERS PLUS LEGAL EXPERTS FORM CHINA. ONE OF THE INITIAL IDEAS WAS THE STRUCTURE OF THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE MODELLED ON THE BLDC COMPRISING SUB-GROUPS IN POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND LEGAL FRONTS. ZHOU NAN WAS QUOTED AS SAYING THE PROPOSAL WOULD PROBABLY BE INCLUDED IN THE NPC AGENDA AND CHANCES FOR IT BEING ENDORSED WERE HIGH. ACCORDING TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL (21.3) THE COMMITTEE WOULD COMPRISE 50 PEOPLE FROM HK AND CHINA. HK PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE LESS THAN HALF AND NOT MORE THAN TWO THIRDS. IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THE CHINESE HAD COMPILED A NAME LIST BUT AS IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE, THEY MIGHT BE RECRUITED IN BATCHES.
DENG XIAOPING
28. MING PAO (18.3) NOTED THAT BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE NPC SESSION DENG XIAOPING HAD TOLD SENIOR CHINESE LEADERS THAT THEY SHOULD BE CAREFUL ABOUT ''PETTY TRICKS'' BY THE BRITISH ON HK MATTERS AND POINTED OUT THE FUTURE WAS NOT OPTIMISTIC. MR DENG SAID HE WAS MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE ISSUE OF HK AND THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION.
LAND COMMISSION
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MANY PAPERS (18.3) QUOTED THE SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CHINESE TEAM ON THE LAND COMMISSION, SUN YANSHENG, AS SAYING UNDER THE CURRENT DISPUTE HE COULD NOT SEE HOW THE WORK OF THE LAND
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