TNAG-2791-FCO40-4030-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China.-With-maps-1993 — Page 104

Translation

Annex A

UDHK's Position Paper on

Mutual Coordination in Major Infrastructural Projects between Hong Kong and China

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Present Position

With the imminent reversion of HK's sovereignty to China in 1997 and the burgeoning economic ties among various places in Pearl River Delta, the problem of how to coordinate the infrastructural development between HK and other places in Pearl River Delta is a topic that will be coming up on the agenda.

In Hong Kong, major infrastructural projects under implementation or planning include the

include the Port and Airport Development Strategy, cross border railway network,

Container Terminal No. 10 and road links between HK and China. In Pearl River Delta across the border, at the instigation of the open door policy, investments have also been lavishly piling up on infrastructural developments, ranging from highways, bridges and energy provision facilities to airports, ports and communication facilities. In this regard, interface and mutual coordination between some of the projects in HK and our neighbours in the Pearl River Delta have to be secured.

Concerning the airport projects, there will be no less than a dozen of international airports in the Delta region in the next three to five years should those projects planned in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Guangzhou be successfully constructed. Now people are talking about the Huangtian Airport absorbing some of the traffic load of HK's new airport or even replacing it altogether.

In port development, the Delta region within the one hundred kilometre radius is strewn with a large number of ports. There are four in Shenzhen alone, namely, Shekou Port, Chiwan Port, Mawan Port and Yantian Port. At the mouth of Pearl River on both sides of HK, three deep-water ports are under planning: Yankou Port in Shenzhen, Huizhou Bay and Gaolan Port in West Zhuhai. In HK, a container port in Northeast Lantau is under active planning.

As regards railway transportation, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway Sub-group under China's State Council decided in end-of-February that the railway should be completed in 1995 ahead of the originally scheduled 1997. Meanwhile, the State Council has also given the greenlight for the Guangzhou-Zhuhai railway, which will later be extended to